Actress and non-profit founder Jane Seymour has added her promontory Malibu property to the Los Angeles-area rental marketplace, according to Dirt. The seven-bedroom, eight-bath 1.22-acre escape sits on a bluff overlooking the ocean, and is priced at $100K per month, short money for an endless summer idyll.
Recently renovated, the 6,326 sq. ft. lodge-inspired home begins in profoundly romantic fashion; a slate front walk crosses water via a stone bridge to arrive at the primary point of entry. It’s a rustic first impression with Craftsman overtones; stacked stone and a gabled extension over the front door give character to the façade.
The house dates to 1981, and could probably be pegged as a contemporary if interior details were the criteria. There’s a lot going on, from reclaimed timber beams and vaulted beamed ceilings to diamond-pane windows and, in the living room, a grandly expressed stone fireplace that fulfills the expectations set by the lodge elements of the front.
In back, the home breaks into two full levels, and the living style achieves a kind of largesse as the perspective changes to a large lawn that unfolds toward land’s end, with suitably park-like landscaping design, a stone patio, and a larger lagoon-style pool with a companion pool house along the way.
Seymour shot to international fame in her role as Bond girl Solitaire, a complex character in 1973’s Live and Let Die – the first 007 entry starring Roger Moore. Her recent films include Friendsgiving, with Malin Åkerman, Kat Dennings, Aisha Tyler, Deon Cole, Wanda Sykes and Margaret Cho.