Stourbridge Street – Named after Stourbridge in Worcester. Stourbridge is near Hagley Hall, the family seat of the Lyttelton family. 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 1909.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website and not a lot that I can add. From Papers Past inn 1910 six acres were sold to Messes Campbell Bros and by 1912 houses were being sold. In 1938 40 State Houses were built. Found an article from 1941 for Alfred Odering and Son.
The houses here are from 1910 to 2016 and there were lots from 1940 and when I found the article about State Houses that made sense.
On the corner of Stourbridge St and Barrington St there is a petrol station. There is an entrance to Odering Garden Centre this end as well. The houses are mostly wooden but a few brick ones as well. At Lyttelton St end there is a small group of shops plus an Art Deco house. One elderly lady had a lovely garden and we had a wee chat. Don’t worry we did keep our required two metres. Houses were a mixture of styles and one that was being done up looked odd and the new addition just didn’t jell with the original house. Might look better once it is finished. Near Lyttelton St end there was a pre-school.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 