Former Test cricket captain Michael Clarke has made a grand return to the Vaucluse housing market just six months after he was forced to sell his matrimonial home, this time paying about $13 million for a mansion opposite historic Vaucluse House.

The European-inspired “bachelor pad” with five bedrooms, heated limestone floors, a grand wrought-iron staircase, formal and informal living and dining rooms, a reading room and a Tuscan-style cabana by the mineralised swimming pool is just the place for the newly single Clarke, with plenty of room for his daughter, Kelsey Lee.

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