Ewelme Cottage is located in Parnell, one of the cities oldest suburbs . The Cottage is one of three Historic homes managed by Heritage NZ in the City (the other two much larger and grander feature on this channel) .
Built originally by the Rev Vicesimus Lush during his tenure as Vicar of Howick (even today a 40 minute drive from Parnell) . Completed in 1864 it has - bar the odd early alteration - remained largely unchanged ever since.
Vicesimus’s descendants kept the house and maintained the family collection right up until they sold it to the Auckland City Council in the late 1960s, meaning that when you visit Ewelme you are very tangibly transported into the domestic life of a middle class Victorian clerical family.
Books, bibles, sheet music, furniture and furnishings, artwork, textiles, toys, games, family photos - more than 80 per cent of what you’ll find in the Parnell cottage is from the Lush collection, making Ewelme one of the richest and most immersive experiences of any property managed by Heritage New Zealand. (Heritage NZ partly paraphrased)
Heritage NZ's reference to Ewelme Cottage can be found here : visitheritage....
Trivia item, I lived for six years in the late 70's about 70m away in a grand old two story house right across the valley from Ewelme Cottage, my south facing bedroom looked right at the cottage !
Very much worth a visit and very different to the two other homes managed by Heritage NZ in Auckland being :
Alberton : • Alberton, Auckland , N...
Highwic : • Highwic Historic Home ...
My gear :
Canon R5 with 24mm 1.8 and 14-35mm 4L
Insta 360 x3 and DJI Pocket 2 (neither of which handle low light very well)
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15 окт 2024
