Unley Park. Northgate Street. Valdarno House. This grand pillow faced stone residence was built for Sydney Warman in 1903. Note its unusual stucco tower above the entrance.
79 Northgate Street.
Valdarno is a town in Tuscany not too far from Florence but there is no known relationship with the early owners of this house and Valdarno. The house is constructed in pillow faced sandstone with a corrugated iron roof and a square tower to the eastern end, tall masonry chimneys and a bull-nose veranda with a timber spindle frieze. Sydney Alfred Warman, a salesman, grocer and storekeeper bought land at the corner of Elm and Northgate Streets in 1901. The property was transferred to his wife Lydia May Warman in 1902 and the house erected in 1903. In March 1905 a son was born at Valdarno to the Warmans. As the Warmans moved interstate the house was put up for sale in 1917 at £3,250. Louis and Edith Leppinus acquired the title when the house was described as 8 large rooms, scullery, pantry, bathroom, storeroom, cellar and sleeping quarters for staff on the grounds. The Warmans asked £3,250. Louis Leppinus died in November 1940 and Edith Leppinus died in 1963 when her executors transferred the title to Alfred Lawrence Raw, an accountant and Dorothy Mary Noye, a ballet teacher. This pair married in 1964. Valdarno sold last year with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms when its estimated value was $4.2 million. It sold in 2006 for $3.3 million.
Unley Park. Northgate Street. Valdarno House. This grand pillow faced stone residence was built for Sydney Warman in 1903. Note its unusual stucco tower above the entrance.
79 Northgate Street.
Valdarno is a town in Tuscany not too far from Florence but there is no known relationship with the early owners of this house and Valdarno. The house is constructed in pillow faced sandstone with a corrugated iron roof and a square tower to the eastern end, tall masonry chimneys and a bull-nose veranda with a timber spindle frieze. Sydney Alfred Warman, a salesman, grocer and storekeeper bought land at the corner of Elm and Northgate Streets in 1901. The property was transferred to his wife Lydia May Warman in 1902 and the house erected in 1903. In March 1905 a son was born at Valdarno to the Warmans. As the Warmans moved interstate the house was put up for sale in 1917 at £3,250. Louis and Edith Leppinus acquired the title when the house was described as 8 large rooms, scullery, pantry, bathroom, storeroom, cellar and sleeping quarters for staff on the grounds. The Warmans asked £3,250. Louis Leppinus died in November 1940 and Edith Leppinus died in 1963 when her executors transferred the title to Alfred Lawrence Raw, an accountant and Dorothy Mary Noye, a ballet teacher. This pair married in 1964. Valdarno sold last year with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms when its estimated value was $4.2 million. It sold in 2006 for $3.3 million.