Don Donovan's World

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 21 August 2012

Leaves From My Sketchbooks: 2. Cob Cottage, Ferrymead

I searched for this cottage on the Internet and found one similar at Ferrymead, Christchurch on the New Zealand Historic Places register but it has a tile or shingle roof. I am pretty sure it's the same cottage as this one that I drew some years ago when it had a thatched raupo roof.

If it is, it's a shame that it's not still thatched because there are so few examples in New Zealand, the only other two that I can think of being the Cuddy at Waimate and Rhodes's Cottage in South Canterbury.

It was a ten minute sketch on the spot but I think it works quite well.

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