Cobham Street – Named after a Viscountcy in the Peerage of Great Britain. Each Viscount Cobham holds the subsidiary title of Baron Lyttelton Several streets in this area have names associated with the Lyttelton family because they were formed on Rural Section 76, 700 acres on the “Lower Lincoln Road, Heathcote Bridge” purchased by Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798-1857) and Conway Lucas Rose (1817- 1910). Spencer’s interest in the land was passed on to his nephew, the Hon. George William Spencer Lyttelton (1847- 1913), the 4th son of George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton (1817-1876). First appears in street directories in 1904. A “standing crop of oats” there is advertised for sale in the Star in 1904.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and really a lot that I can add to it. Couldn’t find anything on Papers Past about selling sections. Did find an article dated 1915 about giving permission to plant trees on the street.
Houses here are mostly wooden or brick and are from every decade from 1910 to 2015. There was a complex called Cobham Village and googling gave me the information that it is social housing owned by South West Baptist church. This church is on the corner of Cobham St and Lyttelton St.
A pleasant street but nothing really stood out for me.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 