A WATERFRONT mansion owned by a 60s rock legend has gone up for sale for almost £15m.
The stunning property is now up for grabs for nearly 500 times the amount spent by the Beatles legend.
The seafront home was sold in 2021 to a millionaire entrepreneur who altered the original bungalow[/caption]
The exclusive location is one of the most expensive outside of London[/caption]
The stunning property is home to panoramic views of the nearby harbour[/caption]
John Lennon formed the Beatles in 1960 with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr[/caption]
John Lennon gifted the former bungalow in Dorset to his auntie Mimi Smith who helped raise him.
The Beatle paid £26,500 for the modest house on exclusive Sandbanks in Poole Harbour around 60 years ago.
Lennon often visited his auntie on Sandbanks, describing it as the most beautiful place he had been.
A property developer altered the peninsula site in 1992, turning the Poole Harbour plot into a two-storey building.
Aptly renamed Imagine, the humble abode was sold in 2021 for £8m to an entrepreneur who has enhanced the house further.
Panoramic views of Poole Harbour and Brownsea Island are one of the top additions.
A third storey was also added as the owner extended and modernised to make the most of the stunning 180-degree scenes.
The property has now been listed for sale for £14.95m.
If it goes for that price it will be one of the most expensive property sales for Sandbanks.
The contemporary mansion has six bedrooms, with a huge kitchen, dining and family room taking up half of the first floor.
There are also four ensuite bedrooms on this level along with a study.
On the top floor there is the master bedroom suite that hosts his and her walk-in wardrobes and an ensuite bathroom.
The ground floor has a large entrance hall, indoor swimming pool, home cinema and gym.
There are two massive balconies overlooking the water on the first and second floors.
Outside the back garden runs down to the harbour’s edge where there is also a private jetty for mooring up boats and jet skis.
The 9,000 sq ft of living space is being sold by estate agents Luxury and Prestige.
Steve Isaacs, from Luxury & Prestige, said the sale represents a rare chance to buy a property on the most desirable stretch of Sandbanks’ Panorama Road.
The address is one of the most expensive outside of London.
He said: “Imagine is an exceptional property. It is an iconic home on Sandbanks and on a stretch of road renowned as one of the most highly prized and exclusive waterside locations anywhere in the UK.
“It has a stunning interior and the views from it are simply extraordinary and perfectly framed by the many vantage points within the house.
“We have had the opportunity to sell some great properties on Sandbanks before and Imagine is one of the most spectacular.
“Its provenance and connection to John Lennon is an added attraction. There are still people in the area who remember Aunt Mimi and recall John Lennon turning up in his Rolls Royce Phantom to visit her.”
The Beatle paid £26,500 for the former bungalow[/caption]
The original house was fitted with a balcony for Lennon’s auntie[/caption]
The former bungalow sits on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula in Poole Harbour, Dorset[/caption]
Mary Elizabeth Smith, known as Mimi, was Lennon’s guardian for most of his childhood, after reporting her sister, Julia Stanley, to social services to complain about the infant sleeping in the same bed as his mother and her new partner.
Julia eventually agreed to let Mimi and her husband George, who had no children of their own, look after John.
When Beatlesmania was at its peak in the 1960s she was constantly pestered by fans at the Liverpool home he grew up in, so Lennon bought her the Sandbanks bungalow at a time when the average house price in the UK was £3,500.
Mimi was said to be in a bad mood the day Lennon and his ex-wife Cynthia took her house hunting and she rejected the first three they viewed but cheered up after seeing the bungalow.
Lennon had a balcony made with a painted wrought-iron balustrade of seven hearts to show the love he had for his aunt.
Mimi would sit and watch the boats from.
The star would visit his aunt there regularly when he needed to escape the limelight and enjoyed spending time on the beach and looking over the harbour.
Looking out over Poole Harbour, Lennon once told Mimi ‘of all the places I’ve visited, this is the most beautiful’.
Lennon never returned to the UK after he moved to New York in 1971 and lost touch with several family members but stayed in contact with Mimi, calling her every week.
Three days before he was murdered by Mark Chapman outside his Manhattan apartment in December 1980, Lennon told her he was homesick and planning a trip back to the UK.
After his death, Mimi was furious when she found out he had never transferred the ownership of the house over to her, which meant Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono owned the house and could sell it at any time.
But she lived there until she died aged 85 in 1991.
Yoko Ono put the house up for sale on the same day as Mimi’s cremation.
The former bungalow has since been turned into a two-storey home[/caption]
The waterfront mansion that John Lennon bought for his beloved auntie 60 years ago has gone up for sale for almost £15m[/caption]
Lennon was raised by his auntie, Mimi Smith[/caption]
The property boasts an indoor swimming pool and two massive balconies[/caption]
