Neighbours gathered outside the heritage-listed property, watching flames and smoke shoot from the roof of Spurling House.

38 Black Street, Brighton – a historic 1888 house that sold for $2.4 million last year – caught fire on Friday evening

The house was designed by influential Sydney architect John Horbury Hunt and is his only known work in Victoria

Paramedics were also at the scene, but no one required attention.

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade said in a statement posted on its website at about 10pm that the blaze had been extinguished, and Black Street had reopened to traffic.

Spurling House changed hands last year for $2.4 million.

Prior to that, it was traded in 1981 for $180,000.

The property – which has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a small swimming pool – is influential Sydney architect John Horbury Hunt’s only known building in Victoria.

The house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms and boasts a shingle-clad attic roofline

‘Spurling House … is of architectural significance as the first, and one of the most innovative, domestic buildings constructed in the later nineteenth century in Victoria Victoria in the Shingle style,’ Heritage Council Victoria’s website says.

It is not known what caused the blaze.

Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Metropolitan Fire Brigade for comment.

It is unclear what caused the fire at 38 Black Street, Brighton

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