Daisy Hill Farm House

Daisy Hill Farm House is a historic building in Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand.

Daisy Hill Farm House
street view (rear of house)
General information
Location15 Truscott Avenue, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand
Coordinates
Completed1857
Designated25-Sep-1986
Reference no.4110

The house was built in about 1860 for Robert Bould, a pioneer farmer.[1] He came to New Zealand with the New Zealand Company in the early 1840s and bought land, for a sheep farm, in Johnsonville in 1853.[2]

Between the world wars, the sheep farm became a dairy farm, run by Hayes and later Martelli. The land supported nearly forty Jerseys, brindles and Ayrshires without extra crops for feed.[3]

Built in a simplified Georgian style it is one of the few remaining houses of this type in Wellington. The building, is classified as a "Category I" ("places of special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.[2]

Daisy hill farm house (view of rear from street)

References
  1. Cattell, J (1986) "Historic Buildings of Wellington" Wellington: Government Printing Office
  2. "Daisy Hill Farm House". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
  3. Bremner, Julie (1987). Wellington’s Northern Suburbs 1919-1945. Wellington: Millwood Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-908582-80-3.


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