Los Angeles Home Purchased
By Tom Jones Is Up for Sale

What: Four bedrooms, seven full baths in 4,600 square feet on 2.5 acres.

Where: Los Angeles

Amenities: Pool, guest suite with sauna, parking for 10 cars, wine cellar, two fireplaces, library, wet bar in master bedroom. Each room in the house has views of downtown Los Angeles or Stone Canyon.

Asking Price: $4.95 million

Opening Bid*: $4.5 million

Listing Agents: Cecelia Waeschle, Sotheby's International Realty, 310-317-4995, and Joyce Rey, Previews Coldwell Banker, 310-285-7529

Due Diligence: Singer Tom Jones, who was recently given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music, bought this two-story house for his parents in 1980, shortly after his father retired from his coal-mining job in Wales. Mr. Jones's sister, Sheila, now lives in the midcentury house and says she and her brother decided to sell the property after their mother, Freda, died two years ago. (Thomas Jones Sr. died in 1981.) The house, just west of downtown Los Angeles in the city's Bel Air district, was originally designed in 1962 for TV director Jack Denove. Besides the wet bar, the second-floor master-bedroom suite has a fireplace and deck. Neighbors include Lindsey Buckingham, of the band Fleetwood Mac and, in nearby Stone Canyon, Leonard Nimoy of "Star Trek." Local brokers say the home is priced about right for the area.

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