Mel Gibson has listed his estate in Malibu with an asking price of $17.5 million. The one-time home of actors David Duchovny and Téa Leoni was purchased by Mr. Gibson in 2008, for $11.5 million. Duchovny and Leoni picked it up in 1999 for $3.6 million.

The fascinatingly eccentric home features a façade which incorporates a series of styles and materials. Timber, brick, and stone are all represented, and the exterior architecture is variously reminiscent of Western and Southwestern rustic.

The interiors are as heavily stylized. A huge amount of raw reclaimed wood, open-trussed ceilings, stone fireplaces and accents, and period light fixtures give the place a huge textural component and a great deal of warmth. The house also makes use of leaded glass panels as part of its compliment of windows.

The great room’s sense of expanse is very pleasing, with a double-height vaulted ceiling, a Spanish colonial chandelier, and a staircase leading to a second-floor gallery. The home’s library features a fireplace, and a wall of built-in bookcases with a rail ladder. A turret staircase is incorporated into one end of the residence, with raw timber inside and out, and a central column for the handrail.

Occasionally, the interiors feel a little contrived. The master suite—one of the home’s five bedrooms and five baths—is a strange amalgam of periods and styles. It features a long window seat, and a bath with a center soaking tub and wide-plank floors.

The home’s exterior features include a marvelous slate patio, stone walls, walkways, a recreational pool and a lap pool, water views, and a guest cottage currently purposed as a gym, all along 5.5 acres of grounds.

Gibson has been awarded two Oscars in his career to date, both for 1995’s ‘Braveheart.’ He stars with Sean Penn in the upcoming ‘The Professor and the Madman,’ a film about the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary. The film is due for release late this year.