We created Bronte at Prospect Hill in 2009 to indulge our passion for hospitality, nurtured over many decades of almost constant overseas travel. I ( John ) recently retired after 30 years in the aviation industry, first as a Flight Attendant and then as a front line Manager with Air New Zealand, our country's multi award winning airline. We have both travelled extensively together and now Gaye, with a background career in sales and marketing, also likes to indulge in her "home" passions of gardening and home decor.

Together, we have experienced the hospitality of tiny guest houses in remote areas to luxury city hotels and resorts. Often we have thought - "wouldn't it be great if the superb in-room facilities and services of a luxury hotel could be blended with the personality and warmth of a small Bed and Breakfast". When we purchased heritage listed Prospect Hill in 2007 we embarked on our project to accomplish exactly that.

In our unobtrusive style of hospitality, we would love to share our home, our culture and our country with you.

Your hosts, Gaye and John Baldwin

Prospect Hill was built in 1869 for Captain John Irvine, a retired British Army Officer who served most of his military career in India, when he was offered the position of clerk, and subsequently Magistrate, of the Howick Law Courts.

Captain Irvine and his family named their new home “Prospect Hill” after their private estate in Northern Ireland.

Prospect Hill later became the Manse to the first Presbyterian church in Howick before reverting to private ownership.

It is a listed property with the Historic Places Trust of New Zealand.