MISSION HOUSE Mangungu CONSERVATION PLAN for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Mission House Mangungu CONSERVATION PLAN Report Prepared by CHRIS COCHRAN MNZM, B Arch, FNZIA CONSERVATION ARCHITECT 20 Glenbervie Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand Phone 04-472 8847 Email
[email protected] for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Antrim House, 63 Boulcott Street Wellington 6011 Draft for public comment 8 June 2018 Mangungu Mission Station, 1838, before fire destroyed the original mission house (top right) on 19 August 1838, as seen by the eight-year-old Emma Hobbs. Copied from the reproduction hanging in the drawing room of the Mission House Front cover photo, the Mission House in 2010, from the north-west. Photo, Margaret Cochran Back cover photo, the memorial cross marking the re-establishment of the Wesleyan mission in New Zealand in 1827, seen against the waters of the Hokianga Harbour. Photo, Margaret Cochran Contents PROLOGUES EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Commission 2 1.2 Ownership and Status 2 1.3 Acknowledgements 3 2.0 HISTORY 5 2.1 History of the Mission House 5 2.2 Chronology 25 2.3 Sources 27 3.0 DESCRIPTION 29 3.1 The Site 29 3.2 Description of the House Today 30 4.0 SIGNIFICANCE 34 4.1 Statement of Significance 34 4.2 Inventory 36 5.0 INFLUENCES ON FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 68 5.1 Heritage New Zealand’s Objectives 68 5.2 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 69 5.3 Resource Management Act 71 5.4 Building Act 2004 72 5.5 Appropriate Standards 74 5.6 Threats and Risks 76 6.0 POLICIES 79 6.1 Background 79 6.2 Policies 81 6.3 Building Implications of the Policies 85 APPENDIX I 87 Icomos New Zealand Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Heritage Value.