Otahuna Lodge

What the classifiers highlight

A turreted Queen Anne homestead outside Christchurch, built in 1895 for a Canterbury statesman, holds carved kauri, stained glass and open fireplaces in rooms that keep the house's original bones. No two suites match, some built around inglenooks, others opening onto wide verandas. MICHELIN points to the daily four-course dinner drawn from the lodge's gardens, matched with New Zealand wine.