surfaces are not real bricks, the house is actually built of cheaper pale mottled brown bricks and then covered with red cement stucco with fake mortar lines. This was a fairly common practice in Auckland at the time as it gives the impression that the building is constructed of expensive imported red bricks from Britain at a fraction of the price. Grafton Mews 5 Glasgow Terrace. A striking 1970s development of hexagonal town houses. Built on the site of a Victorian house which was the location of the first drug raid in NZ concerning LSD. 16 Carlton Gore Road. Until the 1980s this operated as a corner shop. In the 1940s this was the childhood home of Max Gimlett the NZ painter. For a while in the 1990s Don Binney, another NZ painter rented the former shop space as a studio. Outhwaite Park lies on the corner of Park Road and Carlton-Gore Road. This was the residence of Auckland's first Registrar of the Supreme Court, Thomas Outhwaite. From the 1840s onwards Outhwaite and his French wife Louise established a beautiful garden with many interesting specimen plants. In 1927 the last of their four children gave this land to the city as a park. The house does not survive but the basic layout of the grounds and many of the mature trees date from the Outhwaite family's time. The park gives an expansive view of Maungawhau / Mount Eden to the south with a view opposite of St Peter's College prominent on former Outhwaite land on its lower slopes. St Peter's College and Christian Brothers House, 1939–1944, designed by William Henry Gummer, architect, extant; located on the other side of Khyber Pass Road from Outwaite Park. This Catholic Boys School is located on land especially gifted by the Outhwaite family. Former Methodist Training College - 140 Grafton Road, cnr Carlton Gore Road. Impressive brick Gothic building from the 1920s which replaced a number of earlier wooden buildings. Built between 1927 & 1928 to the designs of James Hodge White (1896-1970). In 1927 White joined forces with another Dunedin architect, Eric Miller (1896-1948) to form Miller & White. The firm became architects to the University of Otago, and won the National Design Competition for this building, the Auckland Residential Methodist College. Phoenix Gardens 135 Grafton Road. Highrise Apartment block built in the 1990s. In 1861 the Auckland Bowling Club in Stanley Street