Stafford Place is a rare haven for the discerning traveller, half a kilometre from the nearest road, at the end of a drive lined with olive trees. View our location map.

Built for Henry Redwood in 1866, Stafford Place is one of the Nelson region’s first English manor homesteads. It has enjoyed a rich and colourful past. Read more in a History of Stafford Place.

The restoration work of owners, Bob and Sally Livingston, was recognised when they won the Tasman District Council Heritage Structures Award 2002.

Stafford Place has wide verandahs from which you step on to a large lawn with sixty year old rose borders and a delightful English country garden. And all this set among hundred year old oaks and blue gums which native blue herons, fantails and tuis have made their home. This is all surrounded by an olive grove of a thousand trees.

Superior accommodation with genuine warmth and hospitality. A retreat and a place of relaxation. The perfect sanctuary from which to enjoy your complete independence and indulge in the pleasures the Nelson region has to offer.

What Next Magazine has to say about us:

"Seafood for breakfast? Well, that's how the Victorians ate it, and I happened to be staying in a particularly handsome specimen of 19th-century homestead. Stafford Place is tucked away in new olive groves near Mapua, beautifully restored to its original splendour. As the only guest (the owners, Bob and Sally Livingston, only host one party of up to three guests at a time), I had a claret-walled living room to myself, as well as a high-ceilinged bedroom and an enormous bathroom with a clawfoot bath, seemingly as deep as the ocean. To describe such luxury as a 'bed and breakfast' seems misleading, though literally true."