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We would like to take this opportunity to thank our amazing and dedicated volunteers who contribute so much to Ewelme Cottage.

Over the past 12 months, our team of four gardening volunteers have contributed over 900 hours of their time to looking after the Ewelme Co...

If you were able to visit Ewelme Cottage as a new build in the 1860s this is who may have been at home – Blanche Hawkins Lush and Vicesimus Lush. Migrants to New Zealand in 1850 they came with four small children and a maid, Betsey Sainsbury, and moved to Howick where Vicesimus Lush was the first...

Ewelme Cottage is largely unchanged since the Lush family lived in the house over 150 years ago.

Ewelme Cottage is of considerable importance for its well-preserved interiors and furnishings, and provides great insights into colonial building materials and techniques as well as middle-class domestic life.

It boasts close to 2000 books, hundreds of pages of sheet music, original artworks and...

Many things have changed in Auckland in the past 100 years, but Ewelme Cottage has remained mostly untouched by the 21st Century and remains as a fine example of an early Victorian colonists cottage.

This place fascinates me, and thanks to the docent for telling us these touching stories. I couldn't help but make a short film.

My daughter and I love historical places, and this didn't disappoint.

The kauri-constructed Ewelme Cottage has a link with the Anglican community in Auckland, the dwelling designed and built by the Reverend Vicesimus Lush (1817-1882) and his wife Blanche in 1863-64. Located close to the prominent Anglican community in Parnell, the house enabled Lush's sons to attend the Church of England grammar school while he attended to his pastoral duties. Lush was frequently away on extended absences, particularly after being appointed 'Visiting Clergyman to the Inner Waikato' in 1865. Ewelme was extended 18 years after it was originally built and remained in family hands till 1968. Some architects have suggested that the design with ground floor rooms laid out progressively along the axial length of the building, rather than having a conventional front and back, displays an influence from medieval British dwellings, and a religious consideration of the time which sought to blend medieval architecture into contemporary architecture. Ewelme Cottage is of considerable importance for its well-preserved interiors and furnishings, and provides great insights into colonial building materials and techniques as well as middle-class domestic life. It boasts close to 2000 books, hundreds of pages of sheet music, original artworks and a vast array of everyday objects from ointment pots to knitting needles. Its well-preserved 19th century garden adds further charm to a visit. Visit: Ewelme Cottage

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4worldlovers: The site of the present day Government House, Auckland was first built upon in the 1880s or 1890s.

Sir Frank and Lady Mappin bought the property in 1921 and spent the next 45 years developing and landscaping the grounds. They gave the House and land to The Queen in 1962 for use as a Royal or Vice-Regal residence.

The House is much smaller than the Wellington House, having been designed as a family home.

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