14 Harbour Street

Built as a grain store in 1882 to the design of Dennison and Grant this elegantly detailed, three story Victorian warehouse was built for the NZ Loan and Mercantile when it was the largest stock and station agency in New Zealand.  The building was designed to hold 100,000 sacks of grain, the largest grain store in the country at that time, four water powered grain elevators used to lift the sacks to the top floor of the building are still in place and in working condition.  The end wall has been left with its quoins jutting outwards to key in a future addition.

Trust History

The Loan and Mercantile building came into Trust ownership in 1989.