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15 Lisburn Avenue, Caversham, DUNEDIN

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Lisburn House. From www.lisburn.co.nz
Lisburn House. From www.lisburn.co.nz. Copyright NZ Historic Places Trust

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Lisburn House
Lisburn House. Photographed by James Dignan. Copyright Wikimedia Commons

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Registration Type
Historic Place Category 1
 
Register Number
2192
 
Date Registered
27-Jul-1988
 
Legal Description
Lot 10 & Pt Lot 9 DP 6344
 
City/District Council
Dunedin City
 
Region
Otago Region
 
Historical Significance
The Fulton family who built the house were early settlers near Outram. James and Robert Fulton were brothers who settled near Woodside in 1849 and were later joined by their brother Francis and other members of the family. Lisburn was built as a town house for the family and Francis moved in to live in it in 1865. It was also used by other members of the family when visiting Dunedin.
 
Physical Significance
Architectural Significance:

Lisburn House is one of the finest townhouses of the 1860s in New Zealand. Most of Clayton's buildings in Dunedin have been destroyed and this is a fine example of his domestic designing.

Townscape/Landmark Significance:

An impressive sight among the surrounding cottages and bungalows and a minor landmark in the Caversham suburb.
 
 
 
Construction Professionals
 
Notable Features
The decorative polychrome brickwork.
 
Construction Dates
  • Original Construction: 1865 (circa)
 
Construction Details
The house is built of bricks imported from Ireland with a slate roof. Polychrome brickwork had been used to produce simple patterns on a large wall surface. Roes of fish tail slates alternate with rows of ordinary slates on the roof.
 
Information Sources
  • L. Galer, Houses and Homes, Allied Press, Dunedin, 1981
  • Frances Porter (ed), Historic Buildings of Dunedin, South Island, Methuen, Auckland, 1983.
  • Margaret Shaw and Edgar D. Farrant, The Taieri Plain: Tales of the Years that are Gone, Otago Centennial Historical Publications, Dunedin, 1949
 
 
Other Information
This historic place was registered under the Historic Places Act 1980. This report includes the text from the original Building Classification Committee report considered by the NZHPT Board at the time of registration.
 

 

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