Six generations have lived at Hilton Station, but the family is moving on

• It’s never easy selling up the family home, but it’s even harder when it was built by your pioneering great-great grandfather and has been in the family for 145 years.

Paul and Heather Mackenzie of Havelock North have put their 506ha farm and homestead, Hilton Station, on the market, listing the property with Tim Wynne-Lewis of Bayleys Havelock North.

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The Hilton Station homestead in Havelock North was built in 1871 by Robert Henry Mackenzie, the great-great grandfather of one of the current owners. It has been passed from father to son for 145 years.