Regulatory Committee Agenda - Waipa District Council

12. Rarity: "The frequency with which the historic place can be found."
There are no other Farmers' Clubs in Waipa District (Mercer 2009:32), albeit the CFC portion of
the building has been subsumed into the RSA building.
13. Integrity: "What is the integrity of the place?"
Architectural integrity:
Poor. The history of the building use has involved substantial modification to earlier building
fabric. The newer work has compromised the architectural integritv of the structure. NZHPT
determined the architectural compromises deemed the building not worthy of registration.
The physical state or condition of the place:
The building is in fair condition, but is not being used.
To what extent is the place vulnerable to modification or destruction:
Not known.
7 SUMMARY
Scheduling of the building in the district plan and the submissions received indicate there is
community sentiment and interest in the building. Some of this sentiment is associated with
the RSA building as a venue and an early historical place. Submitters suggested mitigation
through retention of the building in the district or on the site. The buNding has been vacant for
rnany years and the owner does not wish to continue to maintain an empty building on the
land.
The Historical Society suggested signage on the site as a method for mitigating affects if the
building is removed from the site.
The historical and architectural information documented in the previous sections illustrates
how substantially the building fabric has been compromised by modifications over the years.
The work, particularly during the 1950s through 1990s was required to make the building
usable as an RSA venue.
Major modifications to the building have erased the architectural features associations with the
CfC (1877-1881) and Wells (1881-1936) phases of building use. for example the internal
modifications have left virtually no spatial references to CFC use of the building. The sense of
the place as a domestic structure associated with the Wells occupancy is also lost. Building
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