161 High Street
11 council reports since July 2020, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 146 High Street, 57 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings, 147 High Street (30m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, 181 High Street (55m)
- 129 High Street, 1/129 High Street (70m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 189F High Street (105m)
- Former High Street Post Office and Setting, 209 Tuam Street (122m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Wilson Park, 126 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 177 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 401 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 430 m to the edge
- Latimer Square, 437 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- St Asaph, 176 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 446 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 490 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Little Monday Wine Bar, 11 m away · Bars & pubs
- Pasta Pasta, 12 m away · Restaurants
- The Monday Room, 13 m away · Restaurants
- Utopia Ice - High Street, 20 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Madras St near Southwark St, 155 m away · route 8, route 84, route 85, route 95
- Tuam St near Madras St, 177 m away · route 1, route 3, route 5, route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 23 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 61 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 113 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 149 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 455 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- ‘corgis on High’ — Christchurch City Public Artwork, 94 m away ·
‘Corgis on High’ — Christchurch City public artwork, 6 December 2003
· 2009 - The First Public Water Supply Well Was Drilled Near This, 99 m away ·
THE FIRST PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY WELL was drilled near this site on 10 February 1864 by the C
· 2009
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 13 Mar 2026 graffiti on water down pipe
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 13 Jun 2024 Graffiti on side of the building.
- Graffiti, 21 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 21 May 2023
- Graffiti, 21 May 2023
- Graffiti, 12 Feb 2023
- Damaged Road, 2 Nov 2022
- Damaged Road, 30 Aug 2022
Hoping there are plans to reseal this portion of High st between St Asaph and Tuam street. It’s uneven and covered in potholes. It’s awful t
Rubbish/Recycling, 20 Jul 2022 The Monday Room restaurant have their rubbish bins out the back of their tenancy the red bin seems to live in the laneway and often has grea
Graffiti, 7 Nov 2021 High St wall covered in graffiti by little high sy
Graffiti, 2 Jul 2020 The side of the Monday room restaurant
Elsewhere on High Street
- 146 High Street, 57 reports
- 285 High Street, 42 reports
- 188 High Street, 42 reports
- 291F High Street, 35 reports
- 181 High Street, 34 reports
- 216 High Street, 30 reports
- 269 High Street, 26 reports
- 250 High Street, 26 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names High Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
High Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
11 council reports on record since July 2020, most often graffiti (6), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), damaged road (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on High Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings, Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites.
Wilson Park, 126 m to its edge.