An unusual Warren & Mahoney design in red brick for the enigmatically named Mr Blank. This early 60s home is one of the rare Miles Warren ‘woolsheds’ before he latched on to the more distinctive ‘stable’ form. Curiously the rear of the house is elevated for no apparent reason.

Mind you, Karn Henning-Hansen reminisces about the 1958 Waimari Road home designed by her father, “although the house was single storied we did refer to the bedroom wing as upstairs as it was on piles and there were three steps at the intersection of the wings; Father told me slab construction then  was so expensive that, being rather impecunious, they could only afford to build half the house flat on the ground.”