Ingleholme, Heritage residence in Turramurra, Australia
Ingleholme is a residence at 17 Boomerang Street, Turramurra, designed by Sir John Sulman and built from 1895 to 1896. Sulman extended it in phases as his family grew, and the grounds held a formal garden with lawns, clipped hedges, topiary, a vine walk, a kitchen garden and paddocks.
John Sulman bought three hectares on Ku-ring-gai Chase Road in 1895 to build a house for his parents, but they found the site too secluded and moved instead to Addiscombe in 1896. Sulman kept the cottage, named it Ingleholme and extended it in phases tied to the births of his children Geoffrey (1894), Joan (1896), Thomas (1899) and John (1906). It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
Sulman named the house Ingleholme and lived there with his family, enlarging it as children Geoffrey, Joan, Thomas and John arrived. The grounds held a formal garden with clipped hedges, topiary, a vine walk, a kitchen garden and paddocks, and the property kept stabling, a workshop and a gymnasium.
Ingleholme stands at 17 Boomerang Street, Turramurra, about 17 kilometres from Sydney's central business district; Turramurra railway station opened in 1890. The house is a private residence on the New South Wales State Heritage Register (listed 2 April 1999), so it is viewed from the street rather than entered. The grounds once covered about seven acres, including formal gardens, lawns and paddocks.
Sulman planned Ingleholme for his parents, but they found the secluded site "very dull" and refused it; he built them Addiscombe near the Pacific Highway instead and moved his own family into Ingleholme, enlarging it as children were born.
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