This current assessment was completed based on the criteria under section 23 (1) and (2) of the HPA 1993 but has not been approved by the Board as part of a formal review process. ![]() This place was registered under previous legislation. In their proximity to the main street of Dannevirke they also provide value in their possibility for public education through passers-by to the site. Known colloquially as the ‘Ugly Sisters’, their simplicity and lack of ornamentation forms a physical link demonstrating the lives of early working-class settlers in Dannevirke, and early private property development. Speculative buyers often bought a large number of sections at a time and built six or eight houses on these sections, providing rental houses for those who could not afford to buy or construct their own homes. The cottages are architecturally representative of a type of standard house plan that was common in New Zealand at the turn of the twentieth century. In their current place the buildings have aesthetic value by forming a notable element of the streetscape, strengthened because as a group they have homogeneity of form. The exteriors, however, remain unchanged, forming part of their aesthetic value. The kitchens and bathrooms have been renovated in both these houses. 15 and 17 Allardice Street have had fewer renovations, and retain some of their historic fabric on the interior, including tongue and groove ceilings, cupboards and in the case of 17, a coal range. 11 Allardice Street has been extensively renovated on the interior, as it was converted into an office, then back into a residence with a kitchen and bathroom installed in 2010. Other cottages constructed at or around the same time remain in the adjoining Burns Street, giving the Allardice Street houses a historic context, and offering a hint of the time in which they were constructed.Īll three cottages follow a basic double box cottage form, with hipped-roofs. These cottages have been known as the Allardice Street Workers’ Cottages, and evidence suggests that the houses were present on the site in 1903, and that they were constructed for rental purposes by a local developer. Three have gradually been removed, one from the corner with Burns Street, one between 11 and 15, and more recently 19 Allardice Street was removed due to its dilapidated state. These cottages are representative examples of double-box cottages common in workers’ settlements at the turn of the century. These three cottages at 11 - 17 Allardice Street, Dannevirke, form a historic area where formerly six cottages stood in a row along 9 – 19 Allardice Street.
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