This large two-storey home in the English Cottage Style was constructed in 1935 for Mr K. Kirk, the architects were well known local partnership Messenger and Taylor.
A permit was granted by the Borough Council to K. Kirk on 27 February 1935 for the construction of a house on Lot 2, Part I Town Belt & Section 22, Wallace Place – R. Uncles was the builder, and the estimated construction cost was £1156.
It is clad in plain weatherboard and retains a high degree of integrity - part of a cluster of homes in the English Cottage Style on Wallace Place and Barrett Street.
Related items:
DEED5 Wallace Place (1878), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
Taranaki DP3382 Sheet 1 (1915), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
Taranaki DP4327 Sheet 1 (1923), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)
Taranaki Land Deed Index I4 Page 371 and I4 Page 383 Sub Lot 2. (Archives New Zealand)
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