Former Bartlett Homestead

• 1862
• Built
• 1987
• Extensive alterations and additions

Not assessed

Not assessed

The former Bartlett Homestead is a fine example of a mid-19th century farm house that has been subject to relatively sensitive refurbishment, alterations and additions, particularly in the past 25 years. The Oxford Street façade retains much of the original scale and form, and modern elements such as the replacement windows, the new verandah, and the new gable roof addition have been carried out using period-details and in appropriate materials.

The homestead was built as a two-storey cottage, presumably with bedrooms in its steeply pitched roof-space. It had a verandah to the northwest that appears to have been removed in the 1950s/60s, along with a pair of brick chimneys. The verandah appears to have been reinstated in the 1980s.

Rusticated weatherboards

Timber framing

Corrugated mild steel roofing

Timber sash windows.

Oxford Street is a suburban residential street that runs parallel to Tawa’s Main Road. The former Bartlett Homestead has some relationship with the current former Tawa Flat Schoolhouse (30/238) to the north. Both buildings were built on land owned by the Bartlett family.

• Architectural

  Does the item have architectural or artistic value for characteristics that may include its design, style, era, form, scale, materials, colour, texture, patina of age, quality of space, craftsmanship, smells, and sounds?

  The former Bartlett Homestead is a fine example of a mid-19th century farm house that has been subject to relatively sensitive refurbishment, alterations and additions, particularly in the past 25 years.

• Group

  Is the item part of a group of buildings, structures, or sites that taken together have coherence because of their age, history, style, scale, materials, or use?

  The building has some group value for its relationship with the nearby Old Tawa Flat Schoolhouse

• Townscape

  Does the item have townscape value for the part it plays in defining a space or street; providing visual interest; its role as a landmark; or the contribution it makes to the character and sense of place of Wellington?

  The homestead is a local landmark as one of the last remaining buildings that date from the early years of the settlement of Tawa Flat

• Association

  Is the item associated with an important person, group, or organisation?

  The house is one of the oldest reminders of the farm-settlement of Tawa Flats. 

• Association

  Is the item associated with an important historic event, theme, pattern, phase, or activity?

  The house, which was built as a farm homestead, converted into a golf course clubrooms and is currently a suburban family home, has had a representative history that reflects the growth of suburban Tawa from its origins as a small farming settlement in the mid 19^th century.

• Archaeological

  Does the item have archaeological value for its ability to provide scientific information about past human activity?

  Pre-1900 building

• Identity Sense Of Place Continuity

  Is the item a focus of community, regional, or national identity? Does the item contribute to sense of place or continuity?

  The building retains much of its early character and style and contributes to the identity and sense of place of suburban Tawa

• Public Esteem

  Is the item held in high public esteem?

  The building is featured in several books on local issues and is likely to be held in high public esteem

• Authentic

  Does the item have authenticity or integrity because it retains significant fabric from the time of its construction or from later periods when important additions or modifications were carried out?

  The building retains much of its original built fabric – despite the obvious modern alterations to the verandah, gable end and windows, and the removal of the original brick chimneys.

• Rare

  Is the item rare, unique, unusual, seminal, influential, or outstanding?

  The building is a relatively rare example of a relatively unaltered 1860s house, particularly in suburban Tawa.

• Representative

  Is the item a good example of the class it represents?

  The building is a good representative example of domestic architecture of the 1860s

Not assessed

• Carman, A H. Tawa Flat and the Old Porirua Road 1840 – 1970. Trentham: Wright and Carman, 1982.
• Evening Post. 15 February 1930
• ‘GOLF’. Evening Post. 21 December 1922
• Murray, Bruce. The Streets of Tawa. Tawa: Tawa Historical Society Ltd, 2005.
• ‘Plan of Tawa station estate ... [cartographic material] / Seaton & Sladden, surveyors.’ plan of the 1906 Thomson and Brown subdivision, ATL collection
• Ranui Golf Links, Tawa Flat, 1923. K E Niven and Co: Commercial negatives. Ref: 1/2-209900-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
• WCC electronic files, Research prepared for the WCC Tawa heritage sign (2009)
• WCC Heritage Inventory 1995

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