This sprawling estate is home to ducks, goats — and, previously, the late movie star Patrick Swayze.
And now, this bucolic retreat at the edge of Los Angeles, in Sylmar, California, is seeking a new owner.
Rancho Bizarro is set behind automatic gates at the end of a cul de sac and offers both a primary 1940s California Ranch-style residence, as well as a guest cottage and built-out grounds.
“[This] one-of-a-kind equestrian ranch offers wonderful amenities, total tranquility, and space for a broad variety of sport and livestock,” described the $4.5 million listing, which is held by dpp real estate’s Louise Leach and Juan Longfellow, and co-listed with Brett Lawyer of Carolwood Estates.
“An indelible part of Hollywood history, this estate has numerous walking and hiking opportunities, views of the ridgetop, and private, rustic quality of life a short distance from the best parts of Los Angeles,” says the listing.
Highlights of the three-bedroom main house include hardwood floors and exposed beams throughout, a glassed-in atrium, “walls of French doors” and a large flex space the listing suggests could be used as a “rehearsal space for dance or theater performance, or a light-filled art studio.”
Outside, flanking the abode are multiple covered patios and tiled dining spaces, and the bathroom-equipped guest house is located across the lawn alongside a detached garage.
The farm features include a riding arena, two round pens, a goat pen — and a barn with 11 horse stalls, two grooming stalls, a tack room and a laundry room.
The compound comes with four pre-existing tenants: Cocoa, Caramel, Baby and Johnny, the former of which are goats and the latter of which are ducks.
The property was briefly the topic of tabloid fodder after Swayze’s widow sold it to strangers despite reported requests from family and fans to turn it into a museum honoring the beloved actor, who passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer at 57 in 2009.
The address, high-end but humble by celebrity standards, was said to have captured something unique about Swayze, with one Orange County Register writer describing it as not looking “like the front of a movie star’s home” when he visited Swayze there in 1995.
But then, “Swayze was one of the least movie-star-like movie stars I’ve ever met.”