To go to Rippon Lea is to see the last of Australia's great privately owned 19th century suburban estates. This mansion, designed and built in 1868 in the Romanesque style, is secreted within a beautifully maintained original Victorian pleasure ground.

The spacious mansion mixes both the lavish Victorian decoration from its first owners, the Sargood family, with the glamorous 1930s 'Hollywood' lifestyle features of its last owner, Mrs Louisa Jones.