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Originally built during the 1840s for the manager of the Kawau copper mines, Mansion House was enlarged between 1865 and 1868 as the island home of Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand. The house is set in a unique h...

Rich in human history, the story of this area began with the arrival of the ancestors of today's Māori people. Hunting the southern right whale, Europeans arrived over 600 years later. Today this house, along with the s...

Newstead House is the oldest surviving residence in Brisbane. The House was built in 1846 for pastoralist Patrick Leslie who pioneered European settlement on the Darling Downs. Over the years, Newstead has evolve...

Isel House is an important Historic Home set in 4ha of park, consisting a number of NZ's oldest exotic tree species, and a collection of rhododendrons. The house, b.1849, is interpreted in layers of time, from a signifi...

Clendon House, unpretentious in design, displays the dignity of a house suited to Captain James Reddy Clendon's high public position. The house – completed in 1869 – is rectangular, with a high pitched roof and ce...

Duart House was built in 1862/63 for Allan & Hannah McLean. It is a large, two-storied colonial mansion, still very much in original condition. It has only ever been owned and lived in by two families, and was a school...

Built in 1842 by Thomas Brown, magistrate, industrialist and parliamentarian, Eskbank House is the oldest house in the coal and steel town of Lithgow. Eskbank Estate, which was owned by Brown and a succession of steel ma...

The little bach in the Titirangi bush where NZ's most famous painter, Colin McCahon and his family lived during the 1950s has been restored and is now a museum. Visitors can experience the very environment that so inspir...

The actual building of Couldrey House and what successive owners have done with it is more interesting than its Victorian authenticity'. It produces an effect of great charm as a Victorian country house and is an interes...

The Broadgreen House was built in the mid 1850s for one of Nelson’s early settlers and is a fine example of a Colonial Cob House. All eleven rooms have been faithfully and elegantly furnished to represent a lived in fa...