Heritage Buildings and Structures
List of Prominent Heritage Buildings and Structures in Timaru CBD
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1882
Evans Atlas
Flourmill CO
34-36 Turnbull St
James Hislop
Victorian Industrial / Commercial Vernacular
1870 & 1875-76
McRaes Stone Store
(Landing Service Building)
2 George St
Frances J Wilson (Addition)
Industrial Vernacular
1912-13
Meehan's Building
3-7 George St
Thomas Lusk
Neo-Georgian
1886
Quinn's Buildings / Werry's Hotel
1 Cains Tce & 9 George St
Maurice Duval
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1881-82
National Bank of New Zealand
129 Stafford St
Francis John Wilson
Neoclassical
1874
Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works
95 Stafford St
Thomas Roberts
Italianate
1876-77
Union Bank of Australia
119 Stafford St
Thomas Roberts
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1941-42
Timaru Milling Co Office
1 Stafford St
Turnbull & Rule
Art Deco Moderne
1881-82
Bruce's 'Royal Flouring Mills' / Timaru Milling Co
4 Mill St
James Bruce
Industrial Romanesque
1877-78
Timaru Courthouse
14 North St
William Henry Clayton
Italianate
1880-81
James Shepherd’s Store
36 Stafford St & 11 North St
Daniel West
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1869-70
/1877/1882-83] 1911 / 1962-63 / 1992-93
Theatre Royal
118-124 Stafford St
Henry Eli White
Post-Modern with Edwardian Auditorium
1872-73
Criterion Hotel / Excelsior Hote / Tavern
132 Stafford St
Francis John Wilson
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1924-25
Oxford Buildings
148-154 Stafford St
Turnbull & Rule
Inter-war Classical
1879-1881 +
Government Buildings Timaru Post Office
12-16 Sophia St
Robert A Lawson
Italianate Classical
1908-9
1911-12 + Additions
Former Public Library Timaru Borough Council Municipal Offices
2 King George Plce
Walter Panton & Son
Renaissance Palazzo
1880-86 + 1907-09
St Mary’s Anglican Church
22A Church St
William Armson
Gothic Revival
1883
Wrecks Monument
12-16 Sophia St
Thomas Roberts
Obelisk
1928-29
St Mary's Hall
24 Church St
Turnbull & Rule
Collegiate Gothic
1874-75 + 1890/1930
Former Wesleyan Methodist Church
38-40 Bank St
Francis John Wilson
Early English Gothic Revival
1907
Jackson Memorial Methodist Sunday School
34 Church St
James S Turnbull
Edwardian Baroque
1903-4
Chalmers Presbyterian Church
2 Elizabeth Plce
James Turnbull
Gothic Revival
1922-23
State Fire & Accident Insurance Office Building
21 Church St
Cecil Walter Wood
Art Deco Classicism
1922-23
Public Trust Office
41 Sophia St
Walter Panton & Son
Inter-War Classical
1891-92
Rhodes’s Buildings incl. part of Empire Hotel
218, 220, 222, 226 Stafford St
Maurice Duval
Commercial Classical
1891
Demolished 1977
Empire Hotel / Bank of New South Wales
Cnr Stafford St &
Church St
Maurice Duval
Italianate Classical
1892
Empire Hotel (Extension)
4-14 Church St
Maurice Duval
Italianate Classical
1892
South Canterbury Times
16 Church St
West & Barber
Commercial Classicism
1876
Old Bank Hotel
232 Stafford St
Daniel West
Commercial Classicism
1883
Sutter & Taylor Buildings
238 Stafford St
Frances Wilson
Commercial Classicism
1883
Porters Building
240 Stafford St
Frances Wilson
Commercial Classicism
1902 Coronation Buildings
256-260 Stafford St
James S Turnbull
Edwardian Commercial Classicism
1911-12
Choral Hall / O'Callaghan & Le Cren's Mart/ O’Meeghan’s Buildings
284-286 Stafford St
Thomas Lusk
Commercial Classicism
1872, 1876, 1886 & 1912
Dominion Hotel
334-336 Stafford St
West & Barber (1885/86);
Thomas Lusk (1912)
Edwardian Commercial Baroque
1925
Orari Buildings
327-341 Stafford St
Herbert Hall
Commercial Classicism
1925
Tekapo Buildings
255-265 Stafford St
Herbert Hall
Stripped Interwar Classical
1907-8
Hay’s Buildings
229-237 Stafford St
Thomas Coulthard Mullions
Edwardian Commercial Baroque
1878-79
Maclean & Stewart’s Auction Mart & Horse Bazaar
27-29 Strathallan St
Frances John Wilson
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1867
Miles, Archer & Co
1-7 Strathallan St
Unknown
Industrial Vernacular
1904
South Canterbury Club
1 The Terrace
Alfred & Sidney Luttrell
Edwardian Villa
1901
D.C. Turnbull & Co Offices
1-7 Strathallan St
James Turnbull
Edwardian Commercial Classicism
1901-2
Custom House
2 Strathallan St
Daniel West
Neoclassical
1859 + 1862 + 1872 + 1890
Royal Hotel
20 Cains Tce / 1-5 Beswick St
Daniel West
Victorian Commercial Classicism
1915
Grosvenor Hotel
26 Cains Tce
James Turnbull
Edwardian Baroque
1909-10
Atlas Chambers
17 Beswick St
Dunning & Black
Edwardian Free Style
1908
Stafford Chambers
199-209 Stafford St / 18-22 Beswick St
Thomas C Mullions
Commercial Classical
1887
Priest & Holdgate’s Vulcan Warehouse
Royal Arcade
196 Stafford St
James Hislop
Victorian Commercial Classical
1902
McKeown Building
Royal Arcade
200 Stafford St
Daniel West
Victorian Commercial Classical
1907
The Arcade Chambers
/Bowker Building
17 Royal Arcade
West & Hall
English Renaissance
1887
United Friendly Societies' Dispensary
26 Royal Arcade
Maurice Duval
Victorian Commercial Classical
1886
The Timaru Herald
23 Sophia St
Meason & Marchant
Victorian Commercial Classical
c1892
NZ Insurance Co. Ltd
197 Stafford St
Victorian Commercial Classical
1905
Bank of Australasia
191-193 Stafford St
Victorian Commercial Classical
1885
Imrie & Higgins
189 Stafford St
Victorian Commercial Classical
1900
Tourist Cycle Works
187 Stafford St
Daniel West
Victorian Commercial Classical
1902
Clayton/Hardy Building
167-169 Stafford St
James Turnbull
Victorian Commercial Classical
1869
Perry & Perry Building
161 Stafford St
William Williamson
Commercial Classical
1901
J Craigie's Pareora Building
175A-183 Stafford St
James S Turnbull
1892-93
McKeown's Building
176-178 Stafford St
Maurice Duval
Victorian Commercial Classical
1878
Herbert's Drapers Building
170-174 Stafford St
Francis Wilson
Victorian Commercial Classical
Nearby Notable Buildings
1905
Aigantighe Grant Residence
47 Wai-Iti Rd
James S Turnbull
Queen Anne
1905
Timaru Main School Headmaster’s House
34 Arthur St
Thomas Cane
Domestic Gothic Revival
1909-11
Sacred Heart Basilica
7 Craigie Ave
Frank W Petre
French Renaissance
1905
Caroline Bay Tearooms
1 Virtue Ave - Caroline Bay
1905 FW Marchant
1913 & 1931 Walter Panton
1920 Harold Broadhead
1931 Turnbull & Rule
Arts and Crafts
1893
Elloughton Grange
1 Pages Rd
Maurice de H Duval
Jacobean Revival
1871
Parr Windmill
Demolished 1888
Plaque, 6 Elizabeth St
(Cul De Sac near Chalmers Church)