Ingleholme

About

Ingleholme is a heritage-listed residence at 17 Boomerang Street, in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra, New South Wales in Australia. It was designed by Sir John Sulman and built from 1895 to 1896. It is also known as Ingleholme and Garage. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

Turramurra is 170 metres (560 ft) AHD, 30 metres (98 ft) above Pymble and 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Sydney central business district. It has an average of 1,400 millimetres (55 in) of rain per annum, one of the highest for the Sydney metro area. It has a population of close to 11,000 and an area of 6.13 square kilometres (2.37 sq mi). It is bordered on one end by the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and on the other by Lane Cove National Park.

Originally a timber-getting area, European settlement begun in 1822 until after 1850 when orchardists came to occupy extensive landholdings producing a variety of citrus and other fruits including persimmons, custard apples and Chinese pears.

The Turramurra railway station was opened on 1 January 1890. The suburb was then known as Eastern Road and it was nearly a year later on 14 December 1890 that Turramurra was named after the Aboriginal word meaning "high hill". The railway brought immediate progress. In 1881 the population was only 142, by 1891 it was 788 and in 1901 1,306.

There was no electricity until 1927, water was piped from Wahroonga Reservoir and the outside loos were regularly emptied by the nightwatchman. The gaslights were lit each evening by the gaslighter. Those with very large properties kept cows for instant milk supply. Many dairies were established and the milkman delivered twice a day. By 1920, fruit fly put an end to all commercial growing of fruit on the North Shore and the land were converted into Chinese gardens.

Bobbin Head Road (formerly Ku-Ring-Gai Chase Road) is said to be an Aboriginal word for "a smoky place", or, named after a rock resembling a head bobbing in water when the tide comes in, or, said to be the name of a farm owned by one "Hutchinson". "Ku-Ring-Gai" is the modified version of the name of the Aboriginal tribe ( Guringai ) that dwelt in the region. The word was first used by Europeans in the naming of Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park. Boomerang Street is from an Aboriginal word for "weapon for throwing when hunting".

The most expensive subdivision, with lots of 4.0 hectares (10 acres) or more available, is the portion around Ku-ring-gai Avenue and Boomerang Street and a number of houses listed in the Sands Directory of 1903 are found here. Chinese market gardens in the area disappeared after WWII. Ku-ring-gai Avenue was owned by a few prominent people, including:

- 2 – Ellerslie 1899 – John Shedden Adam

- 12 – Ballydown 1897 – Charles Slatyer – Martin McIlrath (second owner of Ingleholme)

- 17 – Glensloy, Wychwood 1901 – Robertson and Marks – G. E. McFarlane (tobacco merchant) Originally on a 9-acre site

- 25 – Yacaba 1897 – Walter Vindin (solicitor)

- 31 – Creighton, Cainga, Tanvally 1899 – Thomas Cosh

- 34 – Newstead, Yprina 1903 (Lichtner, chemist and importer)

- 37 – Ilanscourt 1897 – Nixon and Allen – W. J. Baker (Cutler and Instrument maker)

- 43 – Sylvan Fels, Cossington 1899 – Nixon and Allen – Grace Cossington Smith gave drawing and painting lessons.

- 44 – Waiwera 1900 – additions by Spain and Cosh (Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott ); Woodstock 1905 – Spain and Cosh – W. C. Penfold

- 54 – Erahor, Cairns 1900 – Spain and Cosh (Thomas Cosh) – Dr Cosh and later J. P Dowling

- 56 – Strathendrick 1899 – Spain and Cosh – Mr Ward rented from Cosh

- 60 – The Terricks 1908 – Spain and Cosh, (Thomas Cosh)

- 62 – Egelabra 1908 – Spain and Cosh (Thomas Cosh)