The flat that kept its fabric
South of the square the flat kept its working fabric, listed cottages on Shelley Street, dwellings on the poet-named streets, the MED’s substations, a coronation fountain. Flat the whole way.
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 Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South · Heritage NZ list 1829 · 20 unread leads
Blackheath Place, the row of former dwellings on Durham Street, on the Heritage NZ list.
- MED Substation and Setting, 99A Gasson Street · 9 unread leads
The MED substation on Gasson Street, the grid’s own fabric on the register.
- King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain and Setting
The coronation lamp and drinking fountain, the register names every part of it.
- Former MED Substation and Setting, 259 Milton Street · 21 unread leads
The former MED substation on Milton Street, retired from the grid, kept on the roll.
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street · 20 unread leads
12 Drummond Street, a dwelling on the district plan’s roll.
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street · Heritage NZ list 3701 · 20 unread leads
5 Shelley Street, half of the listed pair.
- Dwelling and Setting, 6 Shelley Street · Heritage NZ list 3702 · 20 unread leads
6 Shelley Street, the other half, next door.
- Dwelling and Setting, 52 Longfellow Street · Heritage NZ list 3719 · 11 unread leads
52 Longfellow Street, a listed dwelling on the poet-named streets.
- Dwelling and Setting, 61A Tennyson Street · Heritage NZ list 1882 · 20 unread leads
61A Tennyson Street, the roll’s last entry on this walk.
The reports along it
7,863 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 6,749 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Roads - General
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
South of the square the flat kept its working fabric, listed cottages on Shelley Street, dwellings on the poet-named streets, the MED’s substations, a coronation fountain. 9 listed places, 2.9 km as the line runs, Sydenham.
Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place (71 Durham Street South) to Dwelling and Setting (61A Tennyson Street), 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.
2.9 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: Sydenham
The same ground today: Sydenham
This page as markdown: /walks/sydenham-flat.md · the route as data: /walks/sydenham-flat.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.