98 Pendarves Street/2 York Terrace (1864)

98 Pendarves Street was one of five homes constructed by Thomas and Grace Hirst for each their adult children - Annis Hammerton, Jane Marshall, James Hirst, Mary Devenish, and Harriet Fookes.

This section of Pendarves Street became known as York Terrace, after the Hirst's homeland, and 98 Pendarves Street was known as No. 2 York Terrace - home to Jane Marshall and her family.

Jean Sandel, the well-known New Plymouth surgeon, bought the house in the late 1950s or early 1960s, living there until her death on 4 November 1974. The historic house was sold at auction for $45,000 the following year to an undisclosed buyer.

Related items:

Town Section1648, Taranaki Land Deed Index I3 page 31. (Archives New Zealand)

Taranaki DP9415 Sheet 1 (1963), ICS Pre 300,000 Cadastral Plan Index (Imaged by LINZ)

They live in a street that is not on any map (Taranaki Herald 7 May 1955)

Do you know York Terrace? (Taranaki Herald 2 December 1967)

Miss Sandel's house sold (Taranaki Herald 1975)

Five little cottages nestled in the sun (Daily News 9 June 1979)