Versace Castle near Foster up for sale looks like a 300-year-old fairytale fortress

South Gippsland’s Versace Castle featuring an armoury, decorative weapons hanging on the walls and stone lions guarding the entrance is for sale. And now, you could call it your home.

Versace Castle, in Woorarra West, is on the market.

South Gippsland’s medieval-style Versace Castle is ready for a new king or queen.

Set on 27.35ha amid the rolling hills of Woorarra West, near Foster, owners Fabio Versace and Louise Martin-Versace have put their old world-esque house up for sale.

Mr Versace built the home, featuring its own armoury, Italian stone floors, antique furniture, tapestries and art, much of which will be included in the sale.

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There’s even a suit of armour that Mr Versace crafted.

The 67-year-old says that he grew up “dreaming of Robin Hood, King Arthur and sword fighting”.

Mr Versace was inspired by European castles and Eltham’s Montsalvat when creating his own citadel.

Mostly self-taught as an artist, Mr Versace handcrafted the castle’s doors, windows and chandeliers, among other items.

Tapestries, antique furniture and grand soaring ceilings inside the castle.

Surrounded by trees and hills, the castle sits on a 27.35ha block of land.

Completing a panelbeating apprenticeship as a teenager equipped him with the skills to make the armour and decorative weapons, including a sword and battle-axe, that adorn the residence’s walls.

He painstakingly applied six coats of paint and used a sea sponge to blend fake cracks into the rendered walls to give them an authentic old-world look.

“For all intents and purposes, the house looks like it was built 200 or 300 years ago,” Mr Versace says.

There’s two kitchens that look medieval but that are equipped with modern appliances.

The views are pretty impressive.

He and Ms Martin-Versace found a vacant block and started planning the castle in 2002.

At the time, he was working as a wedding singer and his wife as a celebrant.

Their busy lives meant they visited the castle, which they moved into six years ago, to work on it when they could.

A winding tree-lined driveway leads to the abode that boasts 3.9m-high ceilings, two living and dining spaces, two kitchens, two bathrooms and a European laundry, while a pair of lion statues weighing 300kg each stand guard outside.

Arches are a pattern repeated through the house, including in windows …

… and hallways and doors.

There’s also a cobblestone courtyard, three dams, remnant bushland and a concrete-floored workshop with two-phase power.

Electricians and carpenters signed off on the castle’s build.

Ms Martin-Versace says it will be hard to give up the castle, but they were selling due to Mr Versace’s fast-declining Parkinson’s disease.

The castle is suited to serving as short-term rental accommodation, with its potential for dual occupancy.

A very royal-looking bathroom and European laundry.

Ray White Foster director Peter Bellingham says Castle Versace was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for purchasers.

“People who have been through loved it,” he says.

“Buyers have looked at it to use as a home, short-term accommodation and even a studio and art gallery.”

Versace Castle is for sale with a $1.4m-$1.475m price range.

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