One of the most beautiful homes in Perth — which has housed a series of prominent families — has sold for a staggering $15 million.

The extraordinary Peppermint Grove mansion overlooking the Swan River on The Esplanade was built in 1901, the same year six British colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia.

Motor vehicles were still a novelty in Perth at the time and women did not yet have the right to vote in Federal elections.

But while the world around it changed, the home set at the highest point in Peppermint Grove was built to last, remaining one Perth’s most expensive homes more than 120 years later.

The limestone and brick house was sold recently by the late David Wordsworth, a former transport minister in the Court Government, and his wife Marie, who once led the You

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