Survey 1.1&2.1&3.1&4.1Muizenberg1 MARCH2017

A Heritage Survey of the Built Environment
Lakeside, Muizenberg and St James

PREFACE

A heritage survey of the built The Board of the Muizenberg Historical Society is very conscious of its important role in
environment and other the safeguarding of our architectural heritage, particularly in the Muizenberg conservation
area. Having published a definitive book on the history of Muizenberg in 2009, we then
conservation-worthy objects in set our sights on compiling a heritage survey of our built environment. We decided to
broaden the focus by including neighbouring Lakeside and St James.
Lakeside,
Muizenberg Crucially important for our vision was finding someone with the good research
and St James credentials and experienced methodology. We decided to set our sights high and approach
the celebrated heritage historian Dr Hans Fransen, knowing that besides the immense
commissioned by the expertise that would be required, the project would also require much footwork and the
physical ability to traverse steep slopes. We were delighted when Hans accepted the
Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society challenge without hesitation. Without him this survey would simply never have been
undertaken. Hans spent months surveying the area on foot and by bicycle. He included in
Compiled by the survey houses that he considered to be of historical and architectural note, while
applying the criteria and principles set out by Heritage Western Cape. The result is a
Dr Hans Fransen comprehensive pictorial and factual representation of our built environment in this
historically significant focus area. We are deeply grateful to Hans for his sterling work
Co-sponsor and commitment to this project.

Joan St Leger Lindbergh Charitable Trust The survey was made possible by equal sponsorship from the Joan St Leger
Charitable Trust and the Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society.
December 2011 – August 2012
Edited by Kalk Bay Historical Association 2016 George Hill
Chairman
Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society
October 2012

Front cover: The Towers (see p.24)
Phot. Hans Fransen

CONTENTS

Introduction 1
Catalogue:
A. Lakeside 7
B. Muizenberg North, Hillcrest 13
C Main Road coastal strip M’berg 32
D Main Road coastal strip St James 52
E Muizenberg Village 104
Plans 151
Index of streets 161



INTRODUCTION as early as 1744). This geographic setting alone gives it a special character, as the meeting place of
flat countryside, steep rocky coast, endless sandy beaches; and delineated on the east by the
About this Survey Zandvlei lagoon.

This study is the result of an initiative by the Muizenberg Historical Conservation Society. It is This juncture of flatland, mountains, lagoon and coast had long been regarded as of strategic
intended to facilitate the Society's work in helping to safeguard what deserves to be conserved in importance. It was seen as the vulnerable “back door” to the settlement at the Cape – as it indeed
this fascinating area, namely Lakeside, Muizenberg and St James. turned out to be at the Battle of Muizenberg in 1795. There had been some buildings there during
the VOC time: Het Posthuys (still there today) and a small walled complex of barracks (the ruins of
Muizenberg has been well served by publications of various kinds. A highly professional which were still there in 1917) that was supposed to provide protection against attacks from the
Conservation Study undertaken for the Cape Town City Council by the firm Revel Fox and south. Some breastworks up the slope above Bailey’s Cottage can still be seen today. Governor
Partners in 1993 provides a good overview and identified conservation areas. It did not, however, Van de Graaff realized the inadequacy of these structures, and in 1786 had ambitious plans drawn
list individual structures, and is in need of updating. In the compilation of our own survey, the up for proper fortifications (roughly situated in the present Atlantic Road area). However, these
publications by Michael Walker, a local resident, have been of inestimable value, in particular his were never carried out, due to the Company’s impending bankruptcy. As a result, the area proved a
book Statement in Stone of 2010, which deals in great detail with architect-designed buildings of virtual walk-over when the British eventually did attack from Simon’s Town in 1795.
the period 1897-1927 in the Muizenberg-St James-Kalk Bay area. It was a period of architectural
eclecticism, yet it produced dozens of charming buildings by fine architects. In the present survey The beginnings of a village
we have added quite a few remaining structures from before 1897, as well as many dozens of non-
architect-designed buildings from the period 1927-1940, some of these good examples of the Art Along the rocky coast between today’s Muizenberg and Kalk Bay, there were a few scattered
Deco style. fishermen’s cottages, later joined by structures relating to the whaling “empire” of Johan H. Muller
from 1814 (several of which are still standing today). The Roman Catholic church of St James was
Michael Walker’s books have provided much background to numerous objects described in erected as early as 1858 to cater for the Filipino fishermen who had been shipwrecked and decided
our study. But a “heritage survey” such as this tries to provide a street-by-street, house-by-house to stay. It was to give its name to the present locality. Then, scattered along the coast, the 1870s
inventory of objects worthy of preservation – and the reasons for doing so. We hope it will help saw the erection of a few – at first quite modest – holiday homes of well-to-do Cape Town
achieve these objectives. families.

Muizenberg before it became a village As a village, however, Muizenberg took longer to develop than some of the other
settlements along the road to Simon’s Town. It was too far from Cape Town to attract permanent
There is evidence of pre-colonial human habitation of the Cape Peninsula by hunter-gatherers in residents, while there were so many greener and less windy options nearer to the City. It was also
the Early Stone Age. This evidence largely takes the form of stone artifacts, of which several were not easy to reach, with Zandvlei (large parts of which are still vleiland today) often making the
unearthed during recent roadworks. Other evidence points to the more recent presence of Khoikhoi main road, squeezed between it and the mountain slopes, impassable. As a hamlet, Kalk Bay long
sheep-herding cave dwellers (Peers’ Cave) lasting until well after the arrival of the first colonial remained larger than Muizenberg, though the latter did have a famous landmark in the form of
settlers. However, no visible structures or sites relating to pre-colonial inhabitants survive in the Farmer Peck’s Inn, a convenient halfway stop-over situated on the corner of today's Main and
area covered by this survey. Continued archaeological investigation may well yield further clues. Atlantic Roads. Until the 1880s there was little else to be found at this site other than some wattle-
and-daub fishermen’s huts and the much older Het Posthuys – as well as the old Barracks.
Ever since colonial settlement spread from the City Bowl inland along the foot of the
mountain, a wagon road developed to the South. This was to be extended towards the winter Muizenberg as a holiday resort
anchorage at Simon’s Town, which was established in 1743. Much later, a railway line was to run
approximately the same course. Along this axis a series of initially small urban nuclei developed The history of Muizenberg as a townlet accelerated when the railway line reached the shores of
over two centuries. Today most of these are engulfed within the urban sprawl of greater Cape False Bay in 1882, after which more substantial houses started being built, nearly all along the
Town, but at one stage they were little hamlets or villages out in the open countryside. Each had its coastal strip – though mostly still as “second homes” by people from elsewhere. The stamp of
own church(es), its railways station, post office, taverns and hotels, its shops, together with a few approval for Muizenberg as a place of permanent residence as well as a holiday destination was set
dozen, later a few hundred, private houses. Driekoppen – today’s Mowbray – was one of these, as by Cecil Rhodes in 1899 when he acquired a cottage on the coastal road. In the same year his
was Rondebosch. The oldest was Wynberg, its first nucleus today still the most recognizable as a architect, Herbert Baker, built a home for himself not far away. By 1891, when a Village
“village”, though slightly off the present main road axis. Management Board was established for Muizenberg and Kalk Bay, the area already counted 1 661
inhabitants. By 1904 this had grown to almost four thousand.
From the early 1800s, there developed the assembly of fishermen’s dwellings at Kalk Bay.
And later, where the “flats” road becomes a coastal road, there was, and is, a locality named When the increasing popularity of Muizenberg (which then counted no fewer than twenty
Muizenberg (the name “Sergeant Muijs zijn Berg”, sometimes spelt “Muijssenburg”, dating from fully fledged hotels) necessitated a grander railway station than the standard-type of building to be

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57- 61 MAIN ROAD – BUSINESS PREMISES PIC 23 63-65 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 24

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
57-61 Main Rd (no.57 cnr George Rd) 86879-86881 Semi-detached business 63-65 Main Rd Date built Dwelling
premises NHRA status Style c.1900 (on 1904 plan) Present use NHRA status
Style Date built Present use Victorian History/literature Vet surgery (no.65)
Victorian c.1900 (on 1904 plan) 57, 59,61 offices Grading (sugg.) Description Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Nos.57-59 not No.63 end-on shop front with veranda. Very significant IIIC
Three-unit terrace with flanking Nos. 57-9 altered and graded, no.61: IIIC No.65 conventional Victorian cottage
stoepkamers under good decoratively Very significant stoeps built in. (almost identical to no.61), plastered, one
shaped bargeboards. No.61 well preserved, stoepkamer with bay-window, rusticated
its stoepkamer with bay window. Significant Some significance quoining, good cast-ironwork and
decorative bargeboard
Historical Significant Some significance
Rarity Historical X
Aesthetic/architectural X Rarity X
Cultural Aesthetic/architectural
Social history X Cultural
Landmark Social history
Landmark

83-87 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 25 97-101 MAIN ROAD CNR CHURCH ST – CHURCH PIC 26

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
83-87 Main Rd 86886 House Langton Lodge 97-101 Main Rd cnr Church St 173809 Church All Saints Anglican
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Church
1919 Carpet shop; offices of NHRA status
Muizenberg Historical Grading (sugg.) Grading (sugg.)
Description History/literature Conservation Society. IIIC Style Date built Present use IIB
Two-storey, plastered rectangular building Arch. M. Damstra for Dr. Alterations/condition Gothic Revival 1890 (W transept) Church
of plain design, with recessed central A.R. Gurney Description History/literature Alterations/condition Some significance
balcony, now built in, and quoining.. Significant Some significance Quaint little building in the “Sophia Gray” Long part of Kalk Bay Enlarged to its present
Very significant tradition, stone with pointed windows. T- parish, Muizenberg received size in 1920.
Historical shaped roof, small portico in front topped its own church though
Rarity X by a belfry, the sides along its tail with flat- munificence of Harry Grey, Significant
Aesthetic/architectural X roofed sections, that on the N side plaster- Earl of Stamford (ground), X
Cultural ed. Interior: lectern donated in memory of Mrs. Hogarth, wife of Kalk X
Social history two brothers killed in WWII; altar painting Bay minister (building) and X
Landmark by J.H. Amshewitz; Baroque altar crucifix Prof. Gill (stone from his X
salvaged from Belgian church after WWI. quarries). WM p.79, 105-6; X
HF p.155
Historical Very significant
Rarity
Aesthetic/architectural X
Cultural X
Social history
Landmark

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57-61 MAIN ROAD – BUSINESS PREMISES PIC 23 63-65 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 24

83-87 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 25 97-101 MAIN ROAD CNR CHURCH STREET– CHURCH PIC 26

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1 HILLCREST ROAD – DWELLING PIC 27 5 HILLCREST ROAD - DWELLING PIC 28

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
1 Hillcrest Rd 86387 Dwelling 5 Hillcrest Rd 86385 Dwelling
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Victorian c.1900 (on 1904 plan) Dwelling Victorian c.1905 (not on 1904 map) Dwelling
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Rectangular stone dwelling under hipped Modern veranda. IIIC Conventional single-storey under grey tiled IIIB
slate roof, its front modernized. Very significant hipped roof, stoepkamer left under Very significant
Significant Some significance bargeboard gable with “half-timber”
Historical plaster motif (repeated on the right side).
Rarity X Cast-ironwork on veranda. Significant Some significance
Aesthetic/architectural X
Cultural Historical X
Social history Rarity
Landmark Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

9 HILLCREST ROAD - DWELLING PIC 29 167 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 30

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
9 Hillcrest Rd 86371 Dwelling 167 Boyes Drive 86379 Dwelling
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Cape Dutch Revival c.1915 Dwelling c.1930 Dwelling
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Single-storey under red-tile roof. Flanking IIIC A row of large houses that are the only IIIC
projecting wings with simple concave- Very significant ones above Boyes Drive. Block-shaped Very significant
convex “Dutch” gables, the left one with a Significant Some significance plastered double-storey (three in front)
modern window. A simple veranda X under hipped tile roof, its entrance recessed
between. X in an arched opening. On its left corner Significant Some significance
arched windows to what may have been an X X
Historical open balcony.
Rarity
Aesthetic/architectural Historical
Cultural Rarity
Social history Aesthetic/architectural
Landmark Cultural
Social history
Landmark

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1 HILLCREST ROAD – DWELLING PIC 27 5 HILLCREST ROAD - DWELLING PIC 28

9 HILLCREST ROAD - DWELLING PIC 29 167 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 30

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175 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 31 177 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 32

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
175 Boyes Drive 93304 Dwelling 177 Boyes Drive 158497 Dwelling King’s Lynn
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built present use NHRA status
c.1930 Dwelling 1941 Dwelling
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Another one of the very few houses built IIIB Block-shaped plastered three-storey, under IIIC
above Boyes Drive. A grand symmetrical Very significant red-tile roof. Plaster window framing and very significant
double-storey under hipped red-tile roof. In quoining. A square-sided bay section in significant some significance
typical Muizenberg style, it has a (very timber over the entrance. X
slightly) projecting three-bay central Significant Some significance X
section with columned balcony over X X Historical
arcaded porch (both of these now Rarity
enclosed), all under the main roof Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural
Historical Social history
Rarity Landmark
Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

9 TOWERS ROAD – DWELLING PIC 33 116 MAIN ROAD - BOUNDARY WALL PIC 34

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
9 Towers Rd, N cnr Upper Belvedere Rd 174496 Dwelling The Towers 116 Main Road 86407 Boundary wall One-time
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Muizenberg House
Victorian 1901 Guest-house Grading (sugg.) Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIB Victorian c.1900 Wall
Superb Victorian stone-built mansion, full- On part of Prof. J. Gill’s Additions by arch. Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
width veranda (partly enclosed) with cast- property, 1898 sold to J.H. Parker & Forsyth, Some significance Low stone boundary wall and entrance IIIC
iron decoration and straight gables centre Wood. Arch. E. Sherwood. bedroom wing 1919, X piers to Muizenberg House (since Very significant
and flanks. Behind it rises a plastered 1917-67 housed YWCA. Black & Fagg hall and demolished, to make way for flats), the Significant Some significance
building of the same width, with similar WS p.94. cottage 1924. name of which is still to be seen.on the X
elevation, though its centre features a gate piers. X
perky tower. It was in turn extended with a Very significant Significant
well-blending higher volume behind. Historical
Prominently situated on hillside. X X Rarity
Aesthetic/architectural
Historical X Cultural
Rarity Social history
Aesthetic/architectural Landmark
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

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177 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 32

175 BOYES DRIVE - DWELLING PIC 31

9 TOWERS ROAD – DWELLING PIC 33 116 MAIN ROAD - BOUNDARY WALL PIC 34

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118 MAIN ROAD – SHOP PIC 35 120 MAIN ROAD – SHOP PIC 36

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
118 Main Rd 86411 Shop 120 Main Rd cnr Camp Rd 86411 Shop Enfield House
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Victorian c.1900 Dwelling/business Victorian 1897 Shop and dwelling Grading (sugg.)
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIIA
Plastered cottage on stone plinth, iron roof, IIIC Two-storeyed plastered building (on stone Arch. W. Black (though in 1912 upgraded with
narrow steps to stoep left, veranda with end Very significant plinth) with well-proportioned “Georgian” conventional Victorian style traditional covered Some significance
wall and cast-iron decoration. Immediately Significant Some significance facades to both streets – that on Main Road – cp. Synagogue by same balcony (later removed X
adjoins no. 118. Important as part of corner X under twin pediment; shop windows architect!) for F. Mills. for road-widening), X
group. X below. On its corner and with its Long a familiar landmark, arch. Jones & Draiby, X
neighbours in central Muizenberg and John Brown’s grocery and builder W. Delbridge.
Historical despite its many changes, a crucial drapery. WS p.61-2, 81. HF Some later changes.
Rarity landmark. p.155. (Archive plan 5555)
Aesthetic/architectural Very significant Significant
Cultural Historical
Social history Rarity X
Landmark Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

2, 4 CAMP ROAD – DWELLINGS PIC 37 6 CAMP RD - ECCLESIASTIC PIC 38

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
2, 4 Camp Rd 86413 Dwellings NHRA status 6 Camp Rd 86414 Ecclesiastic Muizenberg
Style Date built Present use Grading (sugg.) Synagogue
Victorian c.1900 Dwellings, business IIIC Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Description History/literature Alterations/condition 1924 Synagogue Grading (sugg.)
Two-storeyed semi-detached with balcony. At one stage an annexe for Much altered, but Some significance Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIIA
Plastered on stone plinth. Of value as part the Marine Hotel (building “envelope” intact. Broad-shouldered facade with two spire- From early 1900s
of corner group. on right). X less projecting “towers”, their corners Muizenberg always had an Significant Some significance
Very significant Significant quoined. A columned portico in between. active Hebrew congre- X X
Historical X Bold in its over-all design, it shows some gation. Arch. Black & Fagg, X X
Rarity very tentative Art Deco elements in its builder Ch. McCarthy. Its X
Aesthetic/architectural central recess (cp. Victorian Enfield foundation stone was laid by X
Cultural House, also by W. Black). Behind the front Rabbi A.P. Bender. WS
Social history block, a fairly conventional assembly-hall p.66-7, WM p.108-110.
Landmark design with a little belfry.
Very significant
Historical
Rarity
Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

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186 MAIN ROAD – PUBLIC BUILDING PIC 60

184 MAIN ROAD - PUBLIC BUILDING PIC 59

188-194 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 61 196 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 62

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198 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 63 200 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 64

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
198 Main Rd 154697 Dwelling Knight’s Villa 200 Main Rd Dwelling Sea View
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built NHRA status
Victorian ”Venetian” 1899 Dwelling PHS 1984 Victorian C.1900 Present use
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Dwelling Grading (sugg.)
Exquisitely designed stone-built three- Arch.G. Ransome for IIB Rectangular cottage.
storey (two at the back) of restrained, Clifford Knight, then Significant Alterations/condition Some significance
classical design with slightly flared walls at American vice-consul. Some significance Very significant Veranda built in,
street level. Left half flush, of fine Original name Stonehouse. X X “tower” added
fenestration, and three-arched balcony at Once Hillel College for X
top; right half recessed with columned Girls. WS p.8. WM p.70. Significant
open balconies on two floors. HF p.155. X
Very significant Historical X
Historical Rarity
Rarity X Aesthetic/architectural
Aesthetic/architectural Cultural
Cultural Social history
Social history Landmark
Landmark

204 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 65 206 MAIN ROAD – APARTMENTS PIC 66

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
204 Main Rd Date built Dwelling 206 Main Rd 87037 Apartments Sunrise Mansions
Style C.1900 Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Victorian History/literature Dwelling C.1910 Apartments
Description Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Conventional Victorian cottage, two-rooms Very significant IIIC Ungainly fortress-like plastered three- Conversion of Hillel Originally double-
deep, much like Rhodes Cottage must have storey, on the left a built-in bay section College for Girls,. WM storey. Poor condition.
looked when he moved in. rising like a turret. p.116.
Significant Some significance Very significant Significant Some significance
Historical Historical
Rarity X Rarity X
Aesthetic/architectural Aesthetic/architectural X
Cultural Cultural
Social history Social history
Landmark Landmark

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200 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 64

198 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 63

204 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 65 206 MAIN ROAD – APARTMENTS PIC 66

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210 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 67 218-230 MAIN ROAD – STONE WALLING PIC 68

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
210 Main Rd. 87038/48 Dwelling Yokohama 218-230 Main Rd 87065/6, 87062/3/4 Stone walling VOC battlements
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Late-Victorian 1906 Dwelling Pre-1785 Open-air “museum” Grading (sugg.)
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIB
Single-storey under iron roof, Victorian in Built for Mrs Tozer. Run-down. IIIA Loosely packed boulders forming Intended as defence against
shape with its flanking bargeboarded battlement up ridge British in 1795, but already Significant Some significance
stoepkamers, but built of timber frame with Very significant shown on 1786 map by (?) X X
papier maché infill, on stone foundations. X Historical M. Barbier. WM p.72
Handsome central steps to plinth. Some Rarity Very significant
Madeira tiles inside. Aesthetic/architectural
Significant Some significance Cultural
Historical X X Social history
Rarity Landmark
Aesthetic/architectural X
Cultural
Social history
Landmark

219 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 69 MAIN ROAD – SUBWAY PIC 70

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
219 Main Rd 87092 Dwelling Bailey’s Cottage Main Rd Date built Subway
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style C.1910? Present use NHRA status
Cottage 1909 Dwelling Grading (sugg.) History/literature Subway
Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIIB Description Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Single-storey stone-built with hipped Arch. Baker & Masey as At several places along the Muizenberg-St Very significant IIIC
thatch roof, the only building on the sea holiday cottage for Sir Abe Significant Some significance James coast, subways connect the Main
side of the railway (on a small promontory Bailey, on site of previous X Road with the sea side of the railway,
called Schoemnmakersklip), but accessible cottage shown on 1904 plan. X notably also the walkway. These occur
by subway. Best side turned to the sea, WM p.71 X near Bailey’s Cottage and also at the St
where it has a white veranda. “Dutch” James Tidal Pool. They display
cottage-type casement windows. Very significant X considerable age with their bold stone
steps, sides and vaults, and lend character
Historical to the area. Significant Some significance
Rarity X
Aesthetic/architectural Historical X
Cultural Rarity X
Social history Aesthetic/architectural
Landmark Cultural 43
Social history
Landmark

210 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 67 218-230 MAIN ROAD – STONE WALLING PIC 68

219 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 69 MAIN ROAD – SUBWAY PIC 70

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MAIN ROAD – MANSION PIC 71 234 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 72

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
232 Main Rd 87072-87078 Mansion Rust-en-Vrede 234 Main Rd 87074? Dwelling
Style Date built Present use NHRA status Style Date built Present use NHRA status
Cape Dutch Revival 1905 Dwelling Grading (sugg.) Cape Tudor C.1920 Dwelling
Description History/literature Alterations/condition IIB Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Two-storeyed (upper storey under steep Arch. H. Baker, initially for Squeezed between Rust-en-Vrede and Prev. Stables for Rust-en- IIIC
tiled roof), twin gables on street side with Cecil Rhodes (who Significant Some significance Rhodes Cottage, on a narrow erf. A Vrede.
three-arched portico between. Main reputedly asked for “greater X X charming “rustic” house under half hipped Significant Some significance
entrance on north side, also between twin simplicity of line than at broseley-tile roof, with restrained half- Very significant X
gables. Teak “Dutch” windows. High stone Groote Schuur”). After X X timber elements, a plain “Dutch” gable
wall on street boundary. Rhodes’s death the property right, and a dormer with hoisting beam.
was bought by Sir Abe
Historical Bailey. Completed by Historical
Rarity Baker’s partner Masey. Rarity
Aesthetic/architectural Builder RH Morris WM Aesthetic/architectural
Cultural p.99-100.WS p.46-7, 49. HF Cultural
Social history p.155-6. Social history
Landmark Very significant Landmark

X

219 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 73

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name 248 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 74
219 Main Rd 87075 Dwelling Rhodes Cottage
Present use NHRA status Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
Style Date built Museum PHS 1938 248 Main Rd 87076 Dwelling Long Cottage
Cape vernacular C.1870 Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.) Style Present use NHRA status
Description History/literature Several minor changes, IIB Cape vernacular Date built Dwelling PHS 1988
Two-rooms deep, three bays wide, Bought by Cecil Rhodes in repairs. In Rhodes’s Description C.1840? Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
thatched cottage with tiny hips at the roof 1899, by which time its time thatch was Some significance Elongated single-storey one-room deep History/literature Minor changes. IIA
ends where chimneys are set; rusticated thatch had been replaced by replaced with iron. structure under thatch roof, built-out By 1872 seaside home of
plaster. Thatch continued over veranda, iron. He died there in 1902. When thatch has to be dormer/gable-in centre. Good French Governor Sir Henry Barkly, Significant Some significance
with hips at the ends. Original sash After plans to demolish, it replaced, perhaps the windows along front. Window pane who named it Barkly X
windows. Garage/staff cottage on south was slightly restored by iron roof of Rhodes’s inscribed JJ Bisset 1866. Of importance as Cottage, and in 1880s of X X
boundary, though much altered, also of Baker & Masey and given a time can be reinstated. rare surviving example of a 19th-century Chief Justice Lord de Vill- X
19th-century date. thatch roof once again. seaside cottage. iers. Later owned by Garlick
Damaged by fire in 1922, it Significant family. Former name
Historical stood unused until 1932, X Historical Manari Villa, present name
Rarity when used by Northern Rarity in use from 1960s. WM
Aesthetic/architectural Rhodesian government as Aesthetic/architectural p.75/6. HF p.156.
Cultural holiday home. Given to the Cultural Very significant
Social history City Council in 1957 and in Social history
Landmark use as a museum and run by Landmark X
the MHCS. WM p.73-75.
WC p.62-65. HF p.156.
Very significant

X

X
X
X
X

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MAIN ROAD – MANSION PIC 71 234 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 72

219 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 73 248 MAIN ROAD - DWELLING PIC 74

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250 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 75 252 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 76

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
250 Main Rd 87085 Dwelling Orig. Watergate, now 252 Main Rd 87085 Dwelling Watergate Cottage
Graceland Style Present use NHRA status
NHRA status Cape “Mediterranean” Date built
Style Date built Present use Grading (sugg.) Description 1914 Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Cape “Mediterranean” 1914 Dwelling IIIA A miniature version of Graceland next History/literature IIIB
Description History/literature Alterations/condition door. Single-storey, but raised on high Part of W.H. Grant’s
Late Edwardian, Italianate fantasy of John Garlick, founder of the Some significance stone basement, pierced by three porthole original design for Significant Some significance
undoubted charm. Elongated front, slightly store of that name, owned Significant X windows. Watergate/Graceland next X X
projecting flanks with arcaded balconies much land here, which he X X door. X
under hips, central loggia with recessed subdivided in 1896. In 1914 X Historical
entrance and deep balcony above, with architect W.H. Grant built a Rarity Very significant
arches, twisted paired chimneys and house for him here, then Aesthetic/architectural
green(ish)-tile roof of low pitch with two named Watergate (a name Cultural
paired twisted chimneys. (Cp. Grant’s later that survived in that of Social history
Art Deco designs!) Watergate Cottage next Landmark
door). WM p.26. HF p.156.
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260 MAIN ROAD – DWELLING PIC 77

Street address Erf number Type of structure Name
260 Main Rd 88203 Dwelling Columbia
Style Date built Present use NHRA status
C.1925 Dwelling
Description History/literature Alterations/condition Grading (sugg.)
Plastered double-storey under hipped tile IIIC
roof, slightly projecting section right, Very significant
built-in balcony of clapboard left. High Significant Some significance
stone street wall. X
X
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