Heritage Award

In July 2007 we won the Supreme Award of our local community board's Heritage Awards.

These Heritage Awards "serve to acknowledge the preservation and restoration of our commnities heriatge in the Shirley/Papanui Community and to encourage individuals and groups to take pride in their local heritage"

We entered the "good caretaker" category which recognised owners who have maintained a property in original or near original condition for a number of years.

There are a large number of beautiful old homes in Christchurch particually in our area so we completely taken by surprise when we were telephoned and told we had won the overall Supreme Award.

In the program for the presentation at the local Marae (Maori meeting place) the judges wrote of our two cottage.

"Cottages built in 1878 and 1910 and now used as boutique accommodation providing a viable and appropriate use for these outstanding examples of workers cottages. Very high standards of restoration conservation and caretaking have been achievedand the gardens beautifully and sympathetically maintained".