Retired pitcher Derek Lowe has listed his home in Fort Myers as $4.5 million. The ex-Red Sox mainstay has owned the property for a little more than ten years, having purchased it in 2006 for $730K. The house is a custom build dating to 2008.

At over 8,150 square feet, and with five bedrooms and eight full or patial baths, the house is a sprawling series of spaces designed on the Italianate side of Florida Mediterranean. The villa features a grand, recessed tower entrance, a stone motor court, stucco walls with stone accents, and a tiled roof.

The interiors seek to impress, and generally do. Materials are varied, and include sandstone, fieldstone, and reclaimed timber. The interior architecture is graceful, employing arches to both define spaces and suggest continuation. Raw wood and open trussed ceilings lend a little rusticity to the place, but a more contemporary luxe aesthetic is the rule of the day. But the more self-consciously urbane flourishes can be overblown, and the house shines when it keeps to its rustic Tuscan and Caribbean influences.

The house contains three kitchens: two in the house itself, and a third in what is the most interesting aspect of the design, a massive solarium attached to the rear of the structure. Containing Romanesque arcades, a lagoon-style pool with waterfall, lush plantings, and first and second floor living areas with fireplaces, the space is a self-contained artificial environment that may prompt this question: if it wasn’t for golf, would the resident ever feel the need to leave the house?

Lowe’s eight seasons with the Boston Red Sox consumed the bulk of his professional career; he was instrumental in their historic World Series win in 2004.