Two bidders with plenty of knowledge about building in Geelong West went toe-to-toe over an abandoned Edwardian era house.

After locating the blueprints in a drawer, two siblings learn that their Ontario home was updated by a famed British architect who went on to design London’s brutalist Barbican Centre.

The locals call it "the big white house," but its newest owners have modified the moniker up a notch to "La Grande Maison ...