Chippenham Lodge
| Chippenham Lodge | |
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Chippenham Lodge in December 2011
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| General information | |
| Location | St Albans |
| Address | 51 Browns Road |
| Town or city | Christchurch |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Coordinates | 43°30′33″S 172°37′29″E / 43.5092°S 172.6246°ECoordinates: 43°30′33″S 172°37′29″E / 43.5092°S 172.6246°E |
| Completed | 1863 |
| Client | Francis and George Goldney |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | unreinforced masonry |
| Floor count | two |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Benjamin Mountfort (probably) Maxwell Bury (1865 southern wing) |
| Official name | Chippenham Lodge |
| Designated | 25 June 2004 |
| Reference no. | 1846 |
Chippenham Lodge is a heritage building in the Christchurch, New Zealand suburb of St Albans.
Chippenham Lodge was named by their first owners, the brothers Francis and George Goldney, for their birthplace Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. It is located in Brown's Road, which was named for John Evans Brown, one of the notable owners of Chippenham Lodge.
The Goldney brothers bought 26 acres (0.11 km2) of land in St Albans for their Christchurch home in 1862. They were the owners of the 20,000 acres (81 km2) Cora Lynn sheep station in the Southern Alps in the upper Waimakariri basin. There is uncertainty whether their town residence was designed by Benjamin Mountfort or Maxwell Bury, but from the stylistic features, the work was more likely undertaken by Mountfort. The substantial brick home had six rooms.
George Goldney returned to England and the building was sold to Henry Mytton on 12 September 1865 for £1,400. Later that year, Mytton commissioned a substantial southern extension for the building from Mountfort and Bury, who by then were business partners. This turned Chippenham Lodge into a house with ten rooms. The plainer design suggests that Bury carried out the commission. Mytton was born in 1840 in Garth, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of the judge R. H. Mytton, and he worked in Christchurch as a merchant and commission agent. Mytton's business failed in 1867, his household effects were sold, and he left New Zealand for England on the Mermaid in the following year.
The lawyer Thomas Joynt occupied the building for some time before it was sold in 1875 to John Thomas Peacock, who owned the neighbouring Hawkesbury house. Peacock had previously represented the Lyttelton electorate in the House of Representatives, and at the time of the purchase was a member of the Legislative Council and the Canterbury Provincial Council.
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