- An architectural wonder in Cashmere, built on earthquake ruins, has sold.
- The five-bedroom home attracted high interest, with over 70 groups viewing it.
- The cedar-clad house retains elements of the original design by Samuel Hurst Seager.
An architectural wonder built on the remnants of a home destroyed in the Christchurch earthquakes and listed for just over $3 million has sold this month.
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New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty agent Joe Laing, who marketed the five-bedroom property on Hackthorne Road, in Cashmere, told OneRoof that the buyers were returning to Christchurch from Marlborough and had made an offer within two days of viewing it.
“It was a quick decision. They’d travelled down from Marlborough, and I believe they’d looked at a couple of other properties in the area. They put an offer on Hackthorne Road, and then there were several weeks of back and forth,” Laing told OneRoof. “They’re very, very excited.”
The vendor built the property on the ruins of an Arts and Crafts house. Photo / Supplied
The hillside home boasts a stunning pool. Photo / Supplied
He declined to say if they paid the asking price of $3.05m, but noted that the sale price was a top one for the street.
He said interest in the seven-year-old house had been high during the campaign, telling OneRoof that over 70 groups viewed the property. “A lot of the properties in the area are older character villas, with a few from the 1990s or 2000s. There’s not a huge amount of modern architecture on that road, so it’s a one-of-a-kind property for the area.”
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He said the vendor, who works in engineering, and the architect, Tobin Smith of TS Architects, had built the home to a high-quality standard. “It’s pretty magical.”
The sleek, cedar-clad home, which has an RV of $2.55m and boasts panoramic views of the city and the Southern Alps, was built on the foundations of an older building that was demolished after the 2011 earthquakes.
The previous house had been designed by pioneering Arts and Crafts architect Samuel Hurst Seager, whose work in the city in the early 1990s is highly prized but now much diminished as a result of the 2011 earthquakes.
The vendor wanted to pay homage to the original house, so retained the old stonework and the basement, according to a report by Stuff Media.
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