The house, entirely of kauri with kauri floors, was built by a man named Roche in 1901. Originally it had kitchen, dining, lounge, bathroom and five bedrooms, plus a conservatory. Later some rooms changed activity, with a laundry, new bathroom and only four bedrooms. The property was originally 200 acres, but when the road to Morrinsville cut through it was reduced to 110, with the piece over the road sold off. Purchased by the Clarkin family in 1908 and the land farmed by them, it remained a Clarkin home until 2012, when Kerry Clarkin, who had lived there all his life, moved to Hamilton. For all of that 104 years members of the family were ‘movers and shakers’ in whatever needed support or work to be done in Eureka.
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