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Wednesday October 31, 2018
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE HOME
A Slice Of Local History
First Time On The Market!
24 Simla Crescent Khandallah
SPECI SPECIAL IN SPECIAL INVITE TENDER
For sale by closed tender, closing at 12.00 pm, (midday) Thursday 15 November 2018 at our office, 27 Buller Street, Wellington
OPEN HOME - Sunday, 4 November, 12:15pm - 12:45pm A grand home in a truly magical, stunning location – it’s easy to see why this property has been in the same family for over 90 years! “It is a house big enough to hold three generations of memories. Even the most mundane and functional rooms resonate with those ordinary stories of everyday life that turn a house into a home. Take the laundry for example, not a room of much beauty or style. More of central thoroughfare for the traffic of daily life. On the wall on the left, as you enter, my Grandfather installed a wooden box for holding rags and shoe polish. The door of the box folds out to make a platform that he would use to shine his shoes before heading off to his job as Wellington City’s town clerk. In the far corner is the laundry chute that connects to the upstairs bathroom and which my uncle once got stuck in while trying to clamber down as a boy. The focal point of the living room is the fireplace – the marble around the hearth was scavenged from offcuts taken from the old Wellington town hall. Dad would use it as a plinth for lecturing the family on what he felt were the most important political issues of the day. Many of the world’s problems were debated and left unresolved in that living room.
The formal dining room was only ever used for large family gatherings or special dinners with guests. Dad would always sit at the end of the table and try to provoke the guests into debate by taking extreme positions on innocuous issues. The granny flat was built so my Grandmother could live with us as she got older. Sadly, she became too ill to move in. The window seat that was designed especially for her has amazing sun – when I was studying for exams I would sit there reviewing my lecture notes until I fell asleep with boredom and fatigue. The fire escape from the top floor has never been used for its stated purpose but did come into its own during my teenage years – providing a means of sneaking out to parties during the evenings without using the front door. The section would have been largely covered in trees when my Grandfather bought it in the 1920’s. The top of the section, where the house now stands, was cleared by hand with the help of his friends. Today half the section is still covered in native bush and Kereru come every spring to eat the young buds on the kowhai trees that my Grandfather planted on the fringes almost 100 years ago”.
Murray Nickel Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
027 577 9013
murray@redcoats.co.nz o.nz
wellingtonprofessionals.co.nz If you would like to have your home featured here, call Murray today.
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