Mountain Scene
December 15, 2020
By PHILIP CHANDLER
One of Queenstown’s best-known wedding venues, spectacularly located above the Shotover River, is for sale for the first time.
Built in the mid-‘70s, Trelawn Place, off Arthurs Point’s Watties Track, comprises a three-bedroom home, attached studio cottage and two-bedroom and one-bedroom cottages nearby that are all used for luxury boutique accommodation.
It also includes well-kept grounds housing a spa, gazebo and orchard.
Owner Nery Howard, who bought the 2428 square metre site with her former husband, says she used to walk from central Queenstown with her corgi and from the road ‘‘look at this flat piece of land which was covered in tussocks and thistles all the trees weren’t there, so you could see quite easily’’.
Grand Neo-Georgian Mansion Stands Just Outside New Zealand’s Capital City
The seven-bedroom 1929 home is in the affluent suburb of Khandallah By BILL CARY |
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Price: NZ$6.6 million (US$4.6 million)
This stately neo-Georgian mansion that sits just outside New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington was built in 1929 for Robert Barnes Gibbons, a car importer for the Colonial Motors Company.
The house, known as Box Hill, was designed by Joseph Dawson, a partner in the architectural firm of King and Dawson and a “renowned architect of the time,” listing agent Glen Jones said. The cost of construction “was said to be £9,500, which was quite a bit of money.”