Ian Carter and Enid Wells took their grand old lady for a drive in the country yesterday.
That old lady is a two-story house at least 104 years old. The couple, who have owned and loved their house for the past five years, decided it needed a more secure future so they had it moved from its original location in urban New Plymouth to a rural setting at Bell Block.
“It’s been on the corner of Dawson St and Young St since at least 1904, and we thought that for the next 100 years we should give it a nice lovely paddock,” Enid said yesterday. “It’s a beautiful old two-story villa that many people have lived in over the years. In the time we have owned it, heaps have told us of the times they lived in it. The house really has got a lovely feeling about it, so we decided to protect that.”
Two buildings were actually transported from the site to the new location the big house, and a smaller building that had been used for an office and which will now be converted into a granny flat.
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