Te Aro Sailing Club Sheds (former)

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• Te Aro Sailing Club
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• Harbour Custodian’s Office

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This small building appears as two conjoined shed buildings with a double-gable roof covering the pair, repeating the rhythm of the adjoining boat shed roofs.

Access to the sheds is gained by two pairs of large timber doors, one pair per shed, opening out on prominent strap hinges, with modern glazed doors behind the right hand pair; there is a small hatch door to the right corner of the building. The sheds run right back to the seawall at the edge of Oriental Parade and are separated from the RPNYC Club-house with a concrete access stair rising up to the footpath above.

The sheds are timber-framed, clad in rusticated weatherboards, with a base plinth and corner boards. As with the other sheds in the boat harbour, the roof is clad with an asphaltic membrane.

The former Te Aro Sailing Club sheds sit between sheds 14-27 to the west, and the RPNYC to the east.

The Clyde Quay boat harbour is a distinctive and unique Wellington landmark, set on the inner harbour beneath the hills of Mount Victoria. Bounded by the Freyberg Pool to the east and the (now demolished) Overseas Passenger Terminal to the west, it is a notable heritage area for its unique and quite authentic collection of heritage buildings, structures and objects. Until recently, it was the only marina in the inner Wellington harbour.

• Architectural

  Does the item have architectural or artistic value for characteristics that may include its design, style, era, form, scale, materials, colour, texture, patina of age, quality of space, craftsmanship, smells, and sounds?

  The former Te Aro Sailing Club boathouses are a pair of simple small, light-industrial sheds.

• Group

  Is the item part of a group of buildings, structures, or sites that taken together have coherence because of their age, history, style, scale, materials, or use?

  These two sheds have townscape and group value together with boat sheds 2-13, 14-27, and 38-49. In form, they follow the other boat sheds with their gable roofs and central doors and contribute to the overall pattern of the boat harbour buildings.

• Association

  Is the item associated with an important historic event, theme, pattern, phase, or activity?

  While not the firsts sheds to be constructed at the boat harbour site, the boat sheds have a strong historic association with both the development of the harbour itself and boating in Wellington city.
  

• Association

  Is the item associated with an important person, group, or organisation?

  The sheds have some historic significance for their association with the Te Aro Sailing Club.

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• Identity/Sense Of Place/Continuity

  Is the item a focus of community, regional, or national identity? Does the item contribute to sense of place or continuity?

  These sheds are an important element of the Clyde Quay Boat Harbour Heritage Area and contribute to the sense of place and continuity of the area.

• Importance

  Is the item important for any of the above characteristics at a local, regional, national, or international level?

  The boat sheds are of local importance, as they contribute to the Clyde Quay Boat Harbour Heritage Area.

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• Cochran, Chris. Clyde Quay Boat Harbour Wellington Conservation Plan (Wellington City Council: Unpublished report, 2005).
• Murray, Russell. Clyde Quay Boat Harbour – Former Te Aro Sailing Club Sheds, vXI. (Wellington City Council: Unpublished report, prepared for Plan Change 53, 2005).
• Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, “History”, accessed March 4, 2013.
• “Late Commercial,” Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 117, 14 November 1906, p8
• “Te Aro Sailing Club,” Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 139, 9 December 1910, p3

• Inventory Report

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