mortgagee sale

PHOTO: HARCOURTS Cobham is a heritage-listed, five-bedroom house in Merivale that was last sold in 2016.

One of the Garden City’s most significant homes is going under the hammer in a mortgagee sale this month.

Cobham, in Merivale, is a Historic Places Category 2-listed house that was designed by the renowned England brothers, and built for wool auctioneer Henry Jennings in 1908.

A heritage assessment by the Christchurch City Council notes the England Brothers were known for their “rather rambling, romantic, timber-beamed houses in a variety of styles”.

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