Jailhouse Accommodation
Jailhouse Accommodation is a hostel at 338 Lincoln Road, Addington, Christchurch.
Checked 16 Oct 2026
A newly renovated heritage backpacker accommodation, the former Addington Prison in Christchurch. Since opening in 2006, has become renowned as a fascinating award-winning backpackers hostel
Sits inside Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, highly significant in the District Plan · The spot itself carries an ECan consent, large scale burner
The only hostel on the record in Addington
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What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 338 Lincoln Road, Addington | Find Christchurch, 2024 |
| Kind | Hostels | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +64 3 982 7777 | OpenStreetMap · its own site agrees |
| Website | jail.co.nz | OpenStreetMap · its own site agrees |
| NZBN | 9429030724297, NZ Limited Company | NZBN register |
| Registered name | JAILHOUSE ACCOMMODATION LIMITED | NZBN register |
| Registered since | 2 Apr 2012 | NZBN register |
| Industry | Motel operation | NZBN register |
| Services | Wi-Fi | OpenStreetMap |
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How the council’s directory described it
A newly renovated heritage backpacker accommodation, the former Addington Prison in Christchurch. Since opening in 2006, has become renowned as a fascinating award-winning backpackers hostel.
— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Medium density residential zone | District Plan |
| Heritage item | Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting (Heritage NZ category 2), highly significant in the District Plan | District Plan |
| Consent CRC063632 | Large Scale Burner, to 2 May 2041, 8 m from the pin | ECan consents |
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Was One of the Most PopularThe reports nearby
1,937 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 1,583 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 1,937 reports on file
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Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A hostel in Addington, Christchurch.
338 Lincoln Road, Addington, on Lincoln Road. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap and in the council’s 2024 directory.
phone 03 982 7777, its website.
Hotel Give (1.7 km), Haka House Christchurch (1.8 km), YHA Rolleston House (1.8 km), every one in the city.
the address’s own record holds 22 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Young Sing Takeaway (72 m); the Addington Village bus stop is 118 m away: routes 120, 7; a cycle lane passes within 119 m; nearest park: Mountfort Park (28 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Find Christchurch, the council’s business directory, a snapshot last touched about March 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Environment Canterbury’s active resource consents, recorded where the consented activity happens (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata, the item an OpenStreetMap mapper linked the premises to (CC0)
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer, lanes, separated paths and the named Major Cycle Routes (CC BY 4.0)
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
- New Zealand Business Number register, the public facts every NZBN entity files (legal name, status, registration date, industry), matched here by name and address
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