Rippon Lea Estate

Rippon Lea Estate is a background-listed ancient residence and gardens located in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is in the care of the National Trust of Australia. It became added to the Australian National Heritage List on 11 August 2006. The Rippon Lea Estate was constructed in 1868 for Sir Frederick Sargood, a wealthy Melbourne businessman, politician and philanthropist.

Frederick and his wife Marion purchased Crown Allotment 253 and either all, or a part of Crown Allotment 260 in the Parish of Prahran, Elsternwick giving them a complete area of 11 hectares. Located approximately 8 kilometres from the Melbourne critical business district, he contracted a -storey, 15 room house be constructed. An big satisfaction lawn changed into laid out around the house, together with glasshouses, vegetable gardens and orchards.

The gardens have been designed to be self-enough as regards water, and the large man-made lake on the belongings turned into designed to keep stormwater run-off from the surrounding region. By the overdue 1870s Rippon Lea become a total of 18 hectares with the kitchen lawn by myself taking on 0.81 hectares. The Sargood family lived at Rippon Lea till Frederick's loss of life in 1903, and over the years prolonged the residence on numerous events. The greatest structural adjustments occurred in 1897 when the house turned into extended to the north, and a tower changed into added.