Extent of List Entry

All the land situated in Canterbury Land District, Reserve Survey Office Plan 11485 (lawns ornamental gardens ornamental gardens) from the corner of Kilmore Street and Cambridge Terrace, along Cambridge Terrace and Oxford Terrace to Barbadoes Street, including res 44 Town of Christchurch (RT CB29/296), Canterbury Land District. All that land situated in Pt Res 20 (RT CB33K/846), Sections 1 & 2 Local Purposes Reserve situated on Barbadoes and Salisbury Street and Oxford Terrace (as indicated on appendix 1, pg 10 of the Registration Report)

Legal description

Res 44 Town of Christchurch (RT CB29/296), Res SO Plan 11485, Pt Res 20 (RT CB33K/846), Canterbury Land District

Location Description

The Bricks is located within the context of eastern central Christchurch. The site and setting are contiguous and consist of a small parcel of land on a bend in the Avon River bordered by Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street. The parcel boundary more or less equates to the original reserve created by the Canterbury Association. The 1926 memorial cairn is located at the centre of the reserve surrounded by lawn and mature trees. The wider context of The Bricks includes the site of Tautahi's Pa (which is commemorated in the Canterbury Green reserve across the Avon), the residential properties across Oxford Terrace, which are the sites of the early houses and businesses which once clustered around the landing site, and the River Avon itself, which provided the transport artery which once supplied The Bricks. Englefield Lodge, from which the cairn bricks were sourced, remains in a derelict state nearby at the corner of Fitzgerald Avenue and Avonside Drive.