Daresbury (house)

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Daresbury Rookery, 1902

Coordinates: 43 ° 31 ′ 18.1 ″  S , 172 ° 36 ′ 19.8 ″  E

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Daresbury , formerly known as Daresbury Rookery, is an Arts and Crafts Movement style mansion between Fendalton Road and Daresbury Lane in Fendalton , Christchurch in New Zealand . It is considered to be one of the best works by the architect Samuel Hurst Seager .

history

Daresbury was designed by Samuel Hurst Seager for the wine and liquor merchant George Humphreys. The house was built between 1897 and 1901. It is considered to be one of Seager's best big houses. The house originally stood on ten acres of land that was separated from land belonging to the Riccarton Deans family . It was expanded until 1910, when it had 50 rooms and five servants lived in it.

Jane Deans planted 100 blue gums on the property in 1862 . Rooks , English rook nests in those trees, from which the name Daresbury Rookery results. But in the 1930s the trees were attacked by wood wasps, which is why the birds disappeared. A snow storm in 1945 caused further damage to the trees. The last rubber tree was felled in 1952.

Between 1940 and 1950 Daresbury was the official residence of the Governor General . Over time the property was divided and in 1954 20 parcels were sold as building plots. Today the property belonging to the house still has an area of ​​around 0.91 hectares (9100 square meters).

The building was registered as Grade A listed on April 2, 1985 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust under the serial number 3659. After the classification system was changed, the structure later became a Historic Place in Category I.

The property was owned by the family until 1985. It was later owned by Libby and Denver Glass, who later had to sell it, eventually buying it back in 2008 in a foreclosure auction from contractors Dennis Thompson and Sharon Bartlett.

The Glass couple had the building strengthened against the effects of earthquakes , but in the Darfield earthquake in 2010 , one of the six large chimneys collapsed and broke through the roof. The remaining chimneys were taken down with a crane.

Architecture and awards

Daresbury is an example of the style of the English Domestic Revival, also known as the Arts and Crafts Movement . It is made of bricks and the upper floors are timber framed.

In 1932 the garden of the house won a competition from the Christchurch Horticultural Society. In 2010 the property received the Supreme Award from the Christchurch Civic Trust for restoration and renewal. The award ceremony took place on November 30th, a few weeks after Daresbury was severely damaged by the Canterbury earthquake on September 4th, 2010.

After the Darfield earthquake, the building's chimneys were taken down and stored in the garden of the house.

Web links

Commons : Daresbury  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Daresbury. Historic Place Category 1. In: New Zealand Heritage List / Rārangi Kōrero . Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga , April 2, 1985, accessed September 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c 2010 Awards. Christchurch Civic Trust, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  3. ^ A b c Matt Philp : State of Grace . NZ House & Gardens , 2006, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; accessed on February 8, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  4. ↑ a b c Fendalton memories - Joan Dunkley. Christchurch City Libraries, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  5. ^ Daresbury Rookery, 67 Fendalton Road, Christchurch. Christchurch City Libraries, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b Chris Hutching: Developer sells Daresbury and other assets. In: The National Business Review. April 18, 2008, archived from the original on September 12, 2009 ; accessed on May 27, 2012 (English, original website no longer available).
  7. ↑ a b Johnl Cattell: Historic Buildings of Canterbury and South Canterbury . Government Printing Office Publishing, Wellington 1988, ISBN 0-477-01329-5 , pp. 12 .
  8. ^ Developer's empire unravels. In: The Press . July 25, 2008, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  9. ↑ a b Amanda Cropp: Blue chip earthquake blues. In: Sunday Star Times. February 13, 2011, accessed May 27, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Newsletter. (PDF; 8.1 MB) Christchurch Civic Trust, November 2010, p. 7 , accessed on May 28, 2012 .