This utterly stunning property is hard to compare to anything else on the market, facing due north across the wide Main River to the city skyline, the 2,130m allotment has canal frontage on the eastern boundary and an incredible 90m River frontage with a beautiful parks opposite.

Designed for privacy and expansive indoor-outdoor living, the home blends classic elegance with contemporary lifestyle inclusions. Honed marble and granite paving are featured outdoors with polished limestone flooring to interior living areas. Casual living, incorporating the superb Miele kitchen opens via folding glass doors to exquisite water-themed gardens and a resort-sized saltwater pool.

Two sets of ornate gates lead to the multi-car garage and the double-door formal entrance beneath a classic porte-cochere. Here, the guest room steps onto a toughened glass floor panel over a pebble stream an introduction to the unique nature of this beautifully crafted home. Elegant formal living and dining areas are ranged along the river aspect beneath a towering atrium. At the western end is a media lounge featuring a decorative recessed ceiling with concealed lighting. All areas open to tiled patios and manicured lawns overlooking the water.

Casual living, incorporating the superb Miele kitchen opens via folding glass doors to exquisite water-themed gardens and a resort-sized saltwater pool. A large thatch-roofed entertaining pavilion is poised above the river, complete with sound system and LED lighting. A second smaller pavilion with a glass floor sits over a fish pond filed with colorful Chinese carp and fed by a rock waterfall.

Throughout the home, decorative cornices and architraves, imported light fittings and timber window shutters exude a quiet elegance with the internal walls finished in a special artistic paint effect to tone with the natural hues of limestone floors.

Adjacent to the lavish guest suite is a handsome executive study with its own entry and custom designed library display cabinets.

A graceful staircase