Bridesdale Farm’s McBride Cottage, also known as the Red Cottage, was built about 1872 by one of the Basin’s original farming families, and is about the same age as central Queenstown’s oldest building, Williams Cottage. Queenstown lawyer Karen Castiglione and partner Russell Hall bought the cottage and the 1100 square metres of commercially-zoned land it sits on in 2018. “It’s possible it does need a tidy-up.”Although old, the cottage does not have a Heritage New Zealand listing, apparently because of extensive modifications over the years. A heritage report commissioned by Meehan in 2015 found it had been progressively modified by subsequent owners, but is still a good record of an early settlers’ building. The report from Jackie Gillies+Associates said the “main part of the original cottage, including remains of the original shingles and door/window, still survive in very good condition”.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 05, 2020 02:48 UTC