Leamington Villa
Faced with losing the neighbouring historic villa to an out-of-town buyer, Andrew and Christiane Myers decided to buy it and move it onto their Leamington section.
Roto-o-Rangi dairy farmer Andrews Myers, with his daughter Clara, seven, has saved an old Leamington villa from leaving town. Photo: Chris Gardner
Christiane had just given birth to the couple’s third child, Albert, in October when they were given weeks to move the villa onto their Shakespeare Street section by the owners.
“They were going to sell it online, and we wanted to keep it in town,” said Andrew, the deputy chair of Cambridge Community Board.
They bought it for an undisclosed sum and began the process of moving it over the boundary.
While the Myers are yet to research the age of the three-bedroom villa, it is at least a century old and may have been built as early as the late 1800s.
“I plan to visit Cambridge Museum to see what I can find out about it,” Andrew said.
The couple do not yet have any plans for the villa which is being worked on by a small team of tradesmen.
The district was seeing significant growth, and Andrew said he preferred infill and subdivision over the development of rural land.
The couple are dairy farmers at Roto-o-Rangi.
Leamington villa
