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Ross Noble is selling the home he uses to escape from the world, complete with a pool and a tennis court.
Comedian and actor Ross Noble and wife Fran are selling their character-filled Mornington Peninsula home as they prepare to relocate to England.
The English-born stand-up comic has a globetrotting career that regularly sees him travel between his birth country and Australia for shows.
He’s also appeared in movies, including horror-comedy flick Stitches, as well as on stage in The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
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A regular at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as the Edinburgh Fringe, Noble is known for a highly spontaneous, often loud brand of comedy.
But when he gets home, he just wants the peace, quiet and privacy that comes with a big garden block on a little-known dirt road.
Ms Noble said a big part of the appeal to their home was that when you were in “nobody knows that you’re here” — but that the home was still within five minutes of shops, eateries, great coffee and the kids’ school.
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Ross Noble has become a household name and one of the most successful comedians working across England and Australia. Picture: NewsWire / Naomi Jellicoe.
The home’s kitchen and meals area has an array of eye-catching features — and textile additions, like the cushions, by Ms Noble.
The street has a bit of a 1980s village feel to it, and while the neighbours are happy to help each other out they’re equally fine with just exchanging a Christmas card once a year.
“It’s a very good position and it’s completely private,” she said.
The family have also renovated the home to be their perfect space, and while it’s situated a short trip from some of the Mornington Peninsula’s best beaches — it could easily be in the European countryside.
Every corner of the six-bedroom, six-bathroom house has been looked at and “designed to feel homely”, a lot of it because it’s already spent a lifetime or two in other homes.
The main bathtub is an antique that dates back to 1800s France. Wallpapers were sourced in England, and the pantry door came from the front of an old home in India.
The home’s games room has hosted a long list of comedians.
The gardens were installed by a prior owner, and are also reminiscent of Europe.
“And the chandelier in the lounge room, I personally chose every single coloured crystal from an antique market in Paris,” Ms Noble said.
A truly expansive open-plan living zone can extend to an outdoor entertainment space with a barbecue, while a games room with a bar gives even more room to host a crowd.
The floorplan also includes four ensuites spread across most of the home’s bedrooms, as well as a study, garage and a storage area with a cellar and its own bathroom.
Ms Noble wouldn’t divulge names of attendees, but said the games room in particular had attracted a number of comics during the Melbourne Comedy Festival in the past few years.
The home’s kitchen features a door from India as the entry to its pantry.
A tennis court has had plenty of use by the Noble’s children, for netball.
It also had a crowd north of 100 for Ms Noble’s mother’s 80th birthday, an afternoon tea replete with extensive rose floral displays and backed by the home’s ever-present birdsong.
“And there’s a floodlit tennis court where the kids play netball, and a pool,” Ms Noble said.
Its gardens, a fusion of French and English styles, are so productive the Nobles rarely trouble a florist — though they admit they are largely the product of the former owners, save for a few jacaranda trees they planted themselves.
A textile designer by trade, Ms Noble also lined the home with a few of her own creations in the form of pillows and soft furnishings — and expects to spend more time making them when they return to England later this year.
“Our oldest is finishing year 12 this year and she wants to do uni in England, and the little one wants to go back, too,” Ms Noble said.
A cosy fireplace gives the home an enviable ambience in cooler weather.
Wallpaper from the UK, and an antique tub from France. The home’s appointments are as globetrotting as the comedian who owns the residence.
While they’re selling now, the family will be saying see you later to Australia (they will be returning regularly for Ross’s work and for family catch ups) in the second half of the year.
“We always said we’d move back there when we retired. But it’s just come a bit earlier.”
Homes & Acreage’s Candice Blanch is handling the sale of the home that’s being marketed with a $3.3m-$3.6m asking price.
On a 4180sq m plot, Ms Blanch said the quality and character of the home stood out at a time when there was a greater prevalence of more modern residences for sale.
“And there’s the quality of what they have used to renovate, there’s more character to it and it’s not your stock standard,” she said.
With a pool, tennis court and proximity to sought-after schools as well as still being about 40 minutes from Melbourne, Ms Blanch said she anticipated buyers would be families looking for a lifestyle change.
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