COTTAGE, 10 RUE LAVAUD
General Information
COTTAGE, 10 RUE LAVAUD: The only survivor of four similar cottages built in 1877, this is a good example of the simplicity of New Zealand’s colonial domestic architecture.
Category: Dwellings
Date: 1877
Street Address: 10 Rue Lavaud
HPT registered? Yes
District Plan Listed? Yes
Historical Significance
This cottage has an unusual history. In 1893 the section on which it stands was bought from William Watkins by Bonnette Walker, the wife of J.J. Walker, a builder. The Walkers were already living next door to the section (see 114 Rue Jolie).
Walker erected a shed on the land owned by his wife from which he ran his undertaking business. He used the shed for making coffins and storing his horse-drawn hearse. (Builders commonly, in this period, also worked as undertakers.) After World War II, parts of the old shed were dragged forward on the property and converted into a dwelling.
The fact that it is a converted shed explains why the cottage cannot be fitted, by its style, into the story of the development of Akaroa’s domestic architecture.
Walker erected a shed on the land owned by his wife from which he ran his undertaking business. He used the shed for making coffins and storing his horse-drawn hearse. (Builders commonly, in this period, also worked as undertakers.) After World War II, parts of the old shed were dragged forward on the property and converted into a dwelling.
The fact that it is a converted shed explains why the cottage cannot be fitted, by its style, into the story of the development of Akaroa’s domestic architecture.
Map & Address
Address
10, Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, Banks Peninsula Community, Christchurch City, Canterbury, 7520, New Zealand
10, Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, Banks Peninsula Community, Christchurch City, Canterbury, 7520, New Zealand