Ngaio Marsh House
Ngaio Marsh House, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere. It serves as a museum to Dame Ngaio, one of New Zealand's most famous cultural figures and one of the original Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham.Photo: Roslyn Russell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: 37 Valley Road, Christchurch
- Also known as: “Ngaio Marsh House (Former)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church and Princess Margaret Hospital.
Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church
Church
Photo: Blue Bubble Blower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is registered as Category II by Heritage New Zealand. Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church is situated 320 metres east of Ngaio Marsh House.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Princess Margaret Hospital was a public hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand, run by the Canterbury District Health Board. It opened in 1959 and closed in 2024. Princess Margaret Hospital is situated 460 metres west of Ngaio Marsh House.
Cashmere Village Green
Park
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cashmere Village Green is a park, which is situated 400 metres southeast of Ngaio Marsh House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cashmere and Somerfield.
Cashmere
Suburb
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cashmere is a suburb which rises above the southern end of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island, on the north side of the Port Hills.
Somerfield
Suburb
Somerfield is a suburb in the south of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is nominally bordered by the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River to the south and west, Strickland and Colombo Streets to the east, and Milton Street to the north.
Cracroft
Suburb
Photo: Schwede66, Public domain.
Cracroft is a south-west suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. Cracroft was named for John Cracroft Wilson, who settled in this part of Christchurch at the bottom of the Port Hills Range in 1854.
Ngaio Marsh House
- Categories: house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.57198° or 43° 34′ 19″ southLongitude
172.62681° or 172° 37′ 37″ eastOpen location code
4V8JCJHG+6POpenStreetMap ID
way 753599783OpenStreetMap feature
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tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q109297635
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cashmere Tennis Club and Cashmere Bowling Club.
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