Homestead Lane isn’t on the library website and it is possibly a private road as it is within the University grounds. Yet there are other private roads on the library website. Obviously named after the Ilam Homestead a gorgeous Historic building on University land. The Ilam Homestead was built in 1856. Edited to say that I found different dates for the Ilam Homestead building. Their website says that the building was built in 1856 but I found another website (natlib) that said the 1856 building burned down in 1910 and the current building was built 1914.
Several student accommodation blocks are along this lane and they look new and modern. I am going to shock everyone by saying that I liked them. Yes, I liked a couple of modern buildings.
I found an article on Papers Past for 1910 about the fire which destroyed the building and it was called Ilam House those days and not Ilam Homestead. The website for Ilam Homestead is incorrect in promoting the current building as being built in 1856.
NZ Post deliver to this street so I would assume from this that it is a public street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 