With gardens reaching all the way to the shore beside Daveys Bay Yacht Club and sweeping lawns providing a clear uninterrupted vista over Port Phillip Bay to Melbourne’s city skyline on the horizon, this beachfront property is without doubt Mt Eliza’s best position.

One of a few properties on the Mornington Peninsula with helicopter landing rights on the extensive seaside lawns and with its own vehicular private access to the beach. This grand home on 7000sqm (approx.) is a rare chance to own such a large beachfront property with subdivisional potential (STCA) and no heritage overlay.

Available for the first time in 50 years, the property presents exciting prospects for an easy subdivision to carve off 3000sqm to create two beachfront properties (STCA),or subdivide the land into four exclusive new home sites.

Once owned by socialite, writer and humanitarian Dame Mabel Brookes and husband Sir Norman Brookes, Australia’s first Wimbledon winner, the elegant weatherboard home was originally built in the 1850s as a holiday home with numerous additions over the years to become the impressive residence it is today with luxurious space and modern comforts.

Incredibly private behind a gliding auto gate and circular driveway, the four-bedroom home overflows with regal elegance and grandeur boasting soaring ceilings and a long wall of windows facing the panoramic views.

With French doors opening most rooms to verandahs and decks, four living areas including a large lounge and dining room with fireplaces, a music room that fits a grand piano, generous home office and a huge sunroom opening on to an equally large sundeck.

Four bedrooms all have ensuites including the main on the upper level that is said to have originally been added to accommodate a visit by then Princess Elizabeth on a planned visit to Australia in 1952.

Facilitating a home of this size, the kitchen is topped in beautiful granite with Ilve stove and double oven, a moveable island bench, two fridge/freezers and walk-in scullery/preserves pantry and an outlook to a giant fig tree.

There is a seven-bay garage for your “toys’’/ car collections with an attached gardeners shed, a double garage connected to the home, solar power, gas hot water and a flowering garden with sprinkler system.