Ettrick Lane in Richmond and nothing on the library website. The only reason that I knew is was a separate street was the sign post. I couldn’t find out how the lane got it’s name. There was a family with that surname who lived on Bealey Ave and London Street which are reasonably close to where this lane was developed or it was a name connected to the developer. The units here were built in 2019 and they are ugly plus don’t seem to have car parking available. I looked at street view from before the earthquakes and the house here was gorgeous. By googling 19 Forth Street I managed to find lots of information about the house. Personally I think that the lane should have been called Muschamp Lane. The original house at 19 Forth Street was built in 1914 by LDCM Muschamp and he used Oamaru stone and brick. The house was being considered for heritage status when the earthquakes happened. The house was sold as no insurance or ECQ being transferred to new owners. The insurance company put it into the too hard basket when it came to repairing it. Sadly I thought that the house had been demolished but it had actually been deconstructed. The new owners only wanted the land and weren’t interested in the house but an architect who missed out on buying the house to restore it made an offer to the new owners. He offered to demolish the house for free and he deconstructed it and one day he wants to rebuild the house. He took the house apart in such a way that it can be rebuilt. Google Muschamp House and you can found the whole story there along with photos.
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