The college and the homesteads
Ilam’s register reads like a campus tour: seven entries belong to College House alone, hall, library, chapel, blocks, lodge, with the old homesteads and their gardens around it. Flat ground, about two and a half kilometres if you walk the lot.
The walk, as a line
Straight between pins, the streets run longer. Every numbered pin opens that place’s own record.
The stops, in order
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Ilam, 87 Ilam Road · 21 unread leads
Ilam, the homestead the suburb is named for.
- Former Ilam Gardens · 13 unread leads
The former Ilam gardens, the grounds are listed separately.
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Okeover
Okeover, the other named homestead on the roll.
- College House Principal's Lodge and Setting · 20 unread leads
College House, first entry, the Principal’s Lodge.
- College House Kitchen, Dining Hall, Office, Common Room, Study Centre, Foyer, Accommodation Block and Setting, 100 Waimairi Road · 21 unread leads
The kitchen, dining hall and offices, the college’s working side.
- College House Library and Setting, 100B Waimairi Road · 35 unread leads
The library.
- College House Chapel and Setting, 100C Waimairi Road · 26 unread leads
The chapel.
- College House Accommodation Block (North) Rymer, Chichele, Watts Russell and Setting
The north accommodation block.
- College House Accommodation Block (South) Stanford, Carrington, Milford, Parr, Warren and Setting, 100A Waimairi Road · 20 unread leads
And the south, the college keeps seven entries to itself.
- College House Courtyard and setting, 100A Waimairi Road · 20 unread leads
The courtyard between them, listed ground again.
- Former Fendalton Open Air School Classroom and Setting · 5 unread leads
The former open-air school classroom, a small building with its own listing.
- Dwelling and Setting, 83 Clyde Road · Heritage NZ list 9325 · 20 unread leads
A listed dwelling back toward the road.
- Dwelling and Setting
And the last one, at the walk’s east end.
What the register built on the way
Council structures within about 30 m of the stop-to-stop line, the bridges, steps and shelters the route passes. Site names are the register’s own.
- A jetty 25 m off the line
The reports along it
756 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 589 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Hazard, vehicle
Water Leak
Water Leak
Water Leak
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Pavement - Damaged
Dumped Rubbish
Water Leak
Water Pollution - SedimentQuestions, answered briefly
Ilam’s register reads like a campus tour: seven entries belong to College House alone, hall, library, chapel, blocks, lodge, with the old homesteads and their gardens around it. 13 listed places, 4.0 km as the line runs, Ilam.
Former Dwelling and Setting, Ilam (87 Ilam Road) to Dwelling and Setting, the order is a suggestion, not the only way round.
Every one, each pin is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, and each opens the place’s own sourced record here.
4.0 km measured straight between the pins, the streets run longer, and the stops deserve a pause each.
The record behind this
Every stop is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, held here as the register’s own layer. The order and the notes are ours, the listings are the council’s and Heritage New Zealand’s. "Setting" is the register’s word for the ground a listing covers.
The rest of the register here: Ilam
The same ground today: Ilam
This page as markdown: /walks/ilam-college-and-homesteads.md · the route as data: /walks/ilam-college-and-homesteads.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.