Paterangi

• 1939
• Construction of house and garage (Wellington City Council Archive Files 0056:223:B18958 & 00056:233:B19650)
• 1957
• Additions to house and garage (00058:38:C1937 & 00058:14:C678)
• 1960
• Additions to house (00058:128:C6133)
• 1966
• Additions to house (00058:451:C19337)
• 1971
• Additions and alterations to house (00058:754:C34911)

Not assessed

Not assessed

The house is essentially a timber framed building with a cement rendered exterior, and timber framed internal walls. The living areas are located on the ground floor with bedrooms on the first. The plan is essentially ‘L’ shaped with a central stair/landing and hallway from which all other rooms are accessed.

The roofs are flat and the elevations have a strong horizontal emphasis, particularly with the projecting eaves. The eaves are an unusual feature for a house with a flat roof and parapets and do not appear on the original drawings by Chapman Taylor, on the permit drawings, or on the subsequent drawings for the alterations in the mid-1950s. 

The windows appear to have been replaced, but once had multiple horizontal glazing bars. There is a single storey c.1950s extension to the east of the building and later two storey addition partly above the original the original laundry to the southeast. The horizontal bands on the smooth white plaster are an unusual feature that do not appear on Chapman-Taylor’s original drawings, but were on the building permit drawings. 

The building is an unusual departure for architect James Walter Chapman-Taylor from his usual Arts and Crafts style. It is best described as Moderne, and demonstrates the inter-war transition between the English Domestic Revival, Art Deco and International Modern Movement styles. 

Painted cement render, painted timber joinery, bitumen fabric roofing, brick chimney, rimu timber framing.

The house at 166 Messines Road occupies a large section is the south-eastern corner of Karori. Located on a rise, away from the road, and fronted by extensive plant growth, the house is somewhat obscured from pedestrian view.

• 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?

  Paterangi is an interesting and unusual example of the work of one of New Zealand’s most important domestic architects, J W Chapman-Taylor. The house is designed in an interwar transitional style that is best summed up as Moderne. It is an unusual departure for Chapman-Taylor who was best known for handcrafted houses in the Arts and Crafts style. 

• 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?

  Paterangi has some townscape value for its prominent location above Messines Road. The house is distinctive for its white rendered walls and flat roofs that are typical of the Moderne style. It forms part of a streetscape of villas, bungalows and large houses from the late 19^th to mid-20^th century.  

• 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 group value as one of six Chapman-Taylor houses in Karori, and one of two on Messines Road. 

• Association

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

  The house is a good representative example of a large upper-middle-class house of the interwar era designed in the Moderne style. 

• Association

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

  Paterangi is associated with J W Chapman Taylor who is one of New Zealand’s most important domestic architects. It is an unusual and atypical example of his work. 

• Archaeological

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

  Risk unknown.

• 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 has been part of the streetscape for over 70 years and contributes to sense of place and continuity of Messines Road, Karori.

• Rare

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

  The building is a rare example of a J. W. Chapman-Taylor house designed in a Moderne style.

• 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?

  Although the building has been adapted over the past 70 years it retains significant fabric from the time of its construction and from subsequent sympathetic additions and alterations

• Importance

  Is the item important for any of the above characteristics at a local, regional, national, or international level?

  The house at 116 Messines Road is important at a local and regional level as an example of a Chapman-Taylor house. 

Not assessed

• Mew, Geoff & Adrian Humphris. “Raupo to Deco: Wellington Styles and Architects 1840 – 1940” (Wellington: Steel Roberts Aotearoa, 2014)
• Siers, Judy “J.W. Chapman Taylor’s Houses in Karori” in The Stockade, Number 30 1997, ISSN 0110-4926
• Siers, Judy. The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor (Napier, NZ: Millwood Heritage Productions, 2007)
• Wellington City Council Archive Files: 0056:223:B18958; 00056:233:B19650; 00058:38:C1937; 00058:14:C678; 00058:128:C6133; 00058:451:C19337; 00058:754:C34911
• Wellington City Council Permit Record, permit no: B 18958.

• Inventory Record

Not available