Palm Beach home of Wallaby legend up for sale

14 Waratah Rd, Palm Beach rents out to holidaymakers for $7,500 per week in the high season.

The Palm Beach waterfront cottage belonging to the late Wallaby player and coach David Brockhoff, has come to market for the first time in more than a century.

Carinya, on Waratah Rd, is an original weatherboard cottage loved by generations of Brockhoffs and rented out to holidaymakers for $7,500 a week in the high season.

It has just been listed for sale with an expression of interest campaign closing October 8 and with a guide of $13.4m.

B.J. Edwards, of LJ Hooker Palm Beach, said the cul-de-sac strip was one of Palm Beach’s most tightly held addresses where properties were passed down the generations.

Number 10 Waratah Rd sold for $13.6m in July and B.J. said he was fully expecting to wait another 20 years for another sale on the road.

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The late rugby legend’s home has a $13.4m price guide.

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David Brockhoff when he retired as Chairman of Sydney University Rugby Club in 2005. Picture: Danny Aarons

“Then this one came up and it is level and has uninterrupted sweeping views across Pittwater and the full expanse of Station Beach to Barrenjoey Headland,” he said.

“It really is exceptional, a beautiful home,” he said.

Carinya is a three-bedroom cottage on 556sqm of land facing north-west for the best of the afternoon sun. A dining room and sunroom run the length of the cottage looking out to sea and there are original hardwood floors and a sandstone fireplace, French doors and large windows throughout.

It was first owned by the late David Brockhoff’s father Frederick who ran the high-profile flour mill and bakery Brockhoffs in Sydney. The company later became famous for their biscuits and merged with Arnott’s in 1963.

A dining room and sunroom run the length of the cottage looking out to sea.

There are three bedrooms.

David was a master biscuit maker himself but his real love was rugby union and he played eight Tests for Australia between 1949 and 1951 before returning as coach in the 1970s inspiring a historic Bledisloe Cup victory against the All Blacks in 1979. He was tall, with a deep voice, revered in the sport and the king of the player pep talk. He once loosened the hinges of the locker room doors before one Anzac Day match then dramatically ripped one door off and flung it to the floor rallying his team like an army facing the Turks. His team won the match.

David Brockhoff died in 2011 and his wife, Claire, died four years later.

Two further generations of Brockhoffs have enjoyed Carinya but now the family has decided to release the property.

Within hours of coming to market buyers were circling.

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