TEMUKA’S LAST SOD HOUSE
The demolition of the last sod house in Temuka marks the passing oi another link with the early days of the settlement, when the sod or cob house was the prevailing style of building in the east end of the town. Approximately 40 of these houses were built there about 1870. Intended originally as the site of the township, the settlement was known as Arowhenua, but, as the shopping centre of the town gravitated to the main road and the railway line, it became known as Sod Town. Another of these early relics, a cob house, stands at the corner of Maude and Denmark streets. The difference between a sod house and a cob house is that the -former is built of sods cut square and laid like bricks to form the walls, while a cob house is built of clay cemented with tussock. Many of both types of houses were faced with cement as an additional protection against the weather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 2
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165TEMUKA’S LAST SOD HOUSE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 2
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