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This home is a heritage listed cottage in the heart of Wellington's
inner city near Cuba Street. Its next door neighbours are a plumbing
supply shop on one side and a car repair workshop on the other.
The current owners wanted to make a statement about the astonishing
survival of this much loved 1878 cottage (once one of a row) and
its ongoing use. It is one of a very few colonial homes in Te
Aro that still stand on their original sites. The cottage has
had some sympathetic alteration but from the street presents its
totally original façade.
The owner of the cottage for many years was an elderly lady called
Molly and it was due to her refusal to move out for developers
that the cottage survived. Hence today it is affectionately known
as Molly's Cottage. It is a perfectly intact residence, complete
with a walled garden in which edible plants are cultivated.
A pink and red colour scheme was chosen to celebrate the cottage's
joyous and courageous spirit with Resene Floyd on weatherboards,
Resene Quarter Thorndon Cream and Resene Pohutukawa on window
trims and Resene Bastille on doors.
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