$10,999,000 | MLS# 272511 - Also for Rent $12,000 per month. Furnished. Available Sept. 30,2010. Contact Leslee for details.
From the moment you pass through the granite pillars of this exceptional estate, you realize you have come to a place of World Class beauty.
World Class Oceanfront Estate, Victoria B.C.
The elegant 1913 English Tudor manor sits majestically on a 2.25 acre garden offering over 450 feet of Victoria’s finest oceanfront. Sweeping views from Mt. Baker, the San Juan Islands, the Olympic Mountains and beyond, are offered from every level of the residence. Ideally suited for the golf enthusiast, the Victoria Golf Club is conveniently located directly across the street.
The rich wood paneling, high ceilings and crafted moldings throughout the home represent the architectural grandness of the era, yet also provide a feeling of warmth and intimacy, ideal for family or entertaining. The carved entry doors open to a welcoming center hall, leading on to the reception parlor adjoining both the living room and dining room. Prepare to be enchanted!
The Dining Room is truly like “No other.” Grand and gracious, this elegant room provides seating capacity from four to forty. Separate beveled glass doors open or close to dictate room size. A spectacular skylight sits directly over the dining table flooding the room with light. Two temperature controlled wine cellars are easily accessed for red or white wines. The lowest floor has a professional cellar as well, allowing for a total of 2000 of your finest vintages!
The kitchen, which is accessed through swinging leaded glass doors, is equally impressive, suited to the most discerning chef. The original granite wood burning fireplace is a special feature which sets the tone of the room, warm and inviting alongside the center granite island. The sellers spared no expense to ensure this room resonated authentically with the architect’s intent. Every top end appliance is available plus Viking gas range, a warming oven, two dishwashers and walk in pantry. A separate sink and counter serve as wet bar or salad bar. The chandeliers and custom beveled glass doors complete the picture.
The kitchen flows into the family room with an amazing picture window bringing in Mt. Baker, brilliant sunrises, soaring eagles and abundant sea life, while reflecting the ever changing moods of the sea. Feature granite columns and second fireplace continue the architectural theme from the outside to the inside of the home. This is a perfect spot to relax, read, watch TV or chat with the chef.
Rare Blue stone slate flooring carries across the kitchen and family room out to the expansive patios stepping down to the magical gardens. The patios lead over a bridge with a beautiful fountain water story flowing underneath. You are transported into a world of privacy and serenity. The lowest patio is perfect for outdoor dining with fire pit. A bit of merriment is available at the 85 yard golf hole, ideal for fun or practice. Further down the pathway you can retreat to your own private pebble beach! The garden is 50 percent manicured and 50 percent natural by design.
Returning to the reception area you pass the authentic 450 gallon salt water aquarium, visible from the spacious living room. The main Salon is a wonderfully elegant space with abundant wall area for art and sculpture display. Once again ocean views are available from the floor to ceiling windows, with special feature fireplace on the south wall. This area also holds the sound system for the entire house in recessed panels.
The spacious master suite on the second level is completely self contained. It offers a convenient kitchen bar area, flat screen TV, built in speakers, plus a sumptuous ensuite with a marble shower for two and separate water closet. Enjoy the privacy deck as an ideal vantage point to watch cruise ships pass at night like shimmering cities on the sea. The warm wood paneled Library bar is adjacent to the master, an ideal spot to share a late night brandy on your own or with guests.
Salty Towers is a manor with 10 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, adequate to accommodate all guests! The uppermost dormered floor contains 5 of these bedrooms. The bathrooms were designed to provide the greatest amount of privacy and flexibility with back to back water closets plus sequestered double lavatories and showers, slim and elegant as the Orient Express.
The lowest level (above ground) provides a complete one bedroom suite, perfect for in-laws, a snooker room, and the mechanical room with three hot water tanks, never to run out of water for the guests! The property further ensures comfort with its’ natural gas instant response generator for those few times that nature causes a power outage.
It is of historical interest to note that Salty Towers was originally the work of architect William Wallace Blair. He was trained in Belfast Ireland and built this as his retirement property. It was know as the Anketell Lodge for hunting. Along with the “fine granite wall and gate”. Blair built a “stone first floor with Tudor Half-timbering above”. The present owners renamed the property “Salty Towers” in the late 1980’s and substantially modernized and expanded on the Victoria theme to bring it to its current, lustrous 9700 square feet. Truly a mansion of Magnificence!
Leslee Farrell
Your Luxury Waterfront Specialist
1-877-388-5882
Leslee Farrell and her professional luxury real estate team have decades of experience helping discerning buyers acquire only the finest luxury and waterfront real estate on Vancouver Island, BC. For owners of high-end real estate investments, Leslee works with her network of associates and qualified contacts to successfully market and sell property at the right time, for the right price. Contact Leslee and her team today to find out how her Concierge Service works for you.
