Sean Hayes Gives It Another Go in Hancock Park
SELLER: Sean Hayes LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA PRICE: $8,290,000 SIZE: 6,400 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: It was sassy pants informant Wanda Peep who gave Your Mama a digital ringy-dingy to let us know that Sean Hayes has quietly made his walled and gated mansion in L.A.’s hoity-toity Hancock Park ‘hood available as an off-market listing with an $8,290,000 price tag. (NOTE: As of this morning, the property is not listed in the MLS but does appear prominently on the listing agent’s digital portal.)
Some of the children may recall this is not the first time Mister Hayes has boarded the bronco at this particular real estate rodeo. In February 2008 the sitcom veteran slapped an $8,950,000 asking price on the approximately 6,400-square-foot mini-mansion that “Will & Grace” bought and in April of the same year the price plummeted to $7,450,000 before it was taken off the market in August.
Property records and other online resources show the two-time Emmy-winning sitcom star purchased the ivy-covered mansion in late 2001 for $1,650,000 and current listing details, which describe the house as a “Hamptonesque,” “1920’s Country English,” show it has four bedrooms and five bathrooms. We’re just going to idiotically assume those figures do not include whatever number of bedrooms there are in the detached carriage house.
Back in 2008 we rather saucily had this to say about the day-core of Mister Haye’s home: “In Your Mama’s humble and entirely meaningless opinion, this place looks a bit too much like the long time residence of a couple of well heeled, dignified, and late model Jaguar driving grandparents who know a thing or two about cruising on the Queen Mary and not the home of a rich and famous actor who publicly pretends to know nothing about cruising, queens or men called Mary, oh-kay?”
Since 2008 Mister Hayes has officially and publicly come out of the proverbial closet, made mea culpa about not coming out sooner and had his Hancock Park residence did up and done over by — as per digital marketing materials — the fine folk at Chris Barrett Design. It’s current decorative iteration is certainly tasteful and, no doubt, every fitting and finish is of exquisite quality and the finest craftsmanship but, children, we still think it looks and vibes a bit, well, matronly. Matronly isn’t not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just not our thing.
Anyhoodles, poodles, digital marketing materials show a precisely clipped boxwood lined stone walkway snakes across the fastidiously manicured front yard to the central entrance hall with taupe-toned stone tile floors and a tightly banistered staircase. To the left, the original dining room — it connects to the kitchen via a butler’s pantry — has been refashioned by Mister Hayes as a library with a deep window seat and at least two walls of floor to ceiling bookshelves.
Opposite the library, a significantly more spacious living room has dark brown wood floors, a chunky stone fireplace mantelpiece, access to a “secret garden” through 20-pane French doors, an a monochromatic collection of (mostly) taupe-hued furnishings. Beyond the living room there’s a game/billiard room ringed with built-in bookshelves where Mister Hayes keeps his pair of Emmy statuettes as well as multi-pane French doors that open to a large slate terrace that overlooks the backyard.
At the rear of the residence, where it too has French door access to a slate terrace that overlooks the backyard, there’s a family room with fireplace surmounted — natch — by a large, flat-screen television, heavy moldings, and a coffered ceiling. The adjoining, center island kitchen is luxuriously if somewhat generically dressed and well equipped with dove gray Shaker-style cabinetry, marble counter tops, a full suite of high-grade stainless steel appliances and a built-in breakfast banquette.
Two notably generous guest/family bedrooms on the upper floor and have built-in window seats, private bathrooms and walk-in closets while a pair of window seats flank the fireplace in the master bedroom that also has a raised tray ceiling, a double-wide bay window, and wardrobe-lined walk-in closet. The master bedrooms opens to a private loggia that overlooks the back yard and has a haberdashery-inspired bathroom with twin sink vanities on either side of an oval soaking tub in front of a trio of six-pane windows.
Slate terraces extend off the rear of the residence and step down to a slender strip of lawn and rectangular swimming pool with inset spa. Extra high hedges along the rear of the property ensure skinny-dipping privacy and a detached carriage house with wisteria-draped pergola and outdoor fireplace contains self-contained guest quarters and studio with an unknown number of bedrooms or bathrooms.
This property gossip hasn’t heard even a faint whisper about where Mister Hayes might like to move if and when he sells his sumptuously bromidic Hancock Park pad but we do know that until July 2008 he owned a walled residence in the gated and celebrity-approved Laughlin Park enclave in L.A.’s Los Feliz area that he sold for $2,050,000 to — as per property records — designer denim designer Vincent Flumiani. (Other high-profile homeowners iside the Laughlin Park gates include (but are not limited to) Natalie Portman, will.i.am, Ellen Pompeo and Kristen Stewart.
By: Variety
