Small House For Sale

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29892, 4 August 1962, Page 13

Small House For Sale

One of the smallest and oldest houses in Christchurch will be offered for sale at public auction on August 23 The house, which is at 38 Cranmer square, is on a 3.9 perch section and is about 95 years old. The house has a drawingroom. bedroom, bed-sitting-room, bathroom and kitchen But everything is scaled down to Lilliputian dimensions

The area of the section is 1062 square feet and that of the house about 650 square feet, but inside the house there is no feeling of being cramped. The rooms are small, but so well-designed that there appears to be plenty of space. The drawing-room, which fronts on to Cranmer square, has an old world charm with its tiny “doll’s house" windows and the antique furniture in the room. The low white picket fence outside the house serves to emphasise the smallness of the house

Although the house takes up most of the section, there

is still some garden and quite a number of trees. Just inside the gate there is a grapefruit tree which surprisingly is bearing one grapefruit. Although the age of the house is approaching the century there are few signs of its needing any repairs. The pit-sawn weatherboards look as sound as when the house was built Mr D C. Wilson, of Sherris and Wilson, the firm which :s auctioning the property on behalf of the estate of the late Mrs E Pascoe, said that the section was part of a quarter-acre section which had been subdivided at some earlier stage. On the title to the property there was one feature which was novel to him—an easement granting the nightman a right of access to adjacent properties. The house is still in its original state except that one small bedroom has been added. Mr Wilson added that the house was not on the smallest section he had seen. Another house at 333 Barbadoes street was on a 3 3 perch section.