 In December the house and within the fences was leased to John Hosking for three years.When they left for England in 1854, the estate was well established.The 1854–56 lease agreement to John Hosking required him to keep "the park, gardens, orangeries, vineyard and buildings, fencing, hedges, ditches, gates, bridges, stiles, rails, poles, posts and drains in good and sufficient order".