Rosewarne Street – formerly Rosewarne’s Paddock. Named after Joseph Rosewarne (1829-1909). Rosewarne was a butcher of Victoria Street who died at his residence 261 Montreal Street. He owned several parcels of land in Christchurch; a butcher would have needed paddocks for stock.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. This street had a mixture of every style house you could think of. Older wooden villas, workers cottages, modern brick townhouses, roughcast houses and summerhill stone. A few in-fill houses. This is where someone has subdivided a larger property leaving the original house in the front. Walking was difficult here as so many cars were parked on the footpath. There was one set of modern town houses I would hate to live in as someone in one of them obviously has a set of drums. The street runs from Simeon St to Selwyn St. The Selwyn St end has a big empty section where there used to be a block of shops.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 