Kate Sheppard House

The Kate Sheppard House is a historic building which in Ilam district is located in the Clyde Road 83 of the New Zealand city of Christchurch. It was the home of New Zealand's social reformer and suffragette Kate Sheppard (1847-1934) for 14 years.

On 10 December 2010 it was classified by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust under the number 9325 as a memorial of category 1 ( Historic Place Category I).

The house was built from 1887 to 1888. Kate Sheppard and her husband moved in 1888 from the city center in the building at that time located in a rural and inhabited it until 1902. During this period that the activities Sheppards, which led in 1893 in New Zealand became the first country in the world to the introduction of women's suffrage.

Built in wooden house has a slate roof and eight rooms.

The house has been extended by successive owners and changed, remains in the ground substance but still recognizable.