Why this glorious Tassie property is flush with 11 toilets

A stately Tasmanian home for sale has no shortage of options when nature calls – its floorplan is flush with 11 toilets.

The manor is on the market for offers more than $3.9 million and, with 18 bedrooms and at least seven large living areas, it makes sense that toots aplenty are required.

Known as Derwent Court, 20 Fitzroy Place is a Queen Anne estate in the Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay and was built for the man who managed one of Australia’s favourite beer breweries, Cascade.

20 Fitzroy Place, Sandy Bay, Tasmania

The scope for improvement is on offer with the keys. “The current owners initiated plans to restore this amazing property back to its original configuration, and are happy for the new owner/s to utilise these preliminary drawings,” the listing explains.

Strolling the many the corridors is a trip back in time, with lovingly restored heritage touches from timber coffered ceilings to exposed rafters, twinkling leadlight windows, impressive tower rooms, deep bay windows and handsome wainscoting.

The mansion, on the books of agent Deb Stephens of EIS Property, was built in about 1900, added to up until the 1970s, and has been a nursing home, with a layout and fixtures as reminders of that time in some of the newer sections.

SOLD - $3,111,000

20 Fitzroy Place, Sandy Bay TAS 7005

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Separate rooms for showers and toilet cubicles were introduced to take the pressure of usage at “peak times” when the mansion was full of residents.

The ground level is enormous, with fourteen bedrooms on this floor, plus two lounges, a dining room, sitting room and a kitchen, which unfold from an elegant foyer.

The upper floor also has a kitchenette and three sitting rooms, as well as additional bedrooms.

The listing outlines the possibilities for the home to become accommodation again, or configured into a business, townhouses or magnificent family home.

Sandy Bay’s median house price is $1.4 million, according to Domain’s latest House Price Report, which represents a 7.7 per cent leap over 12 months and 74.9 per cent growth over five years.