Inventory Reference
Formal Gradings
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment

archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

Statement of Significance

The Construction of this gaol commenced on 16 April 1813. In April 1822 the Magistrate of Albany reported that the gaol was to small and was offensive in that a residential area adjoined it. It was in 1824 whereafter it became a school and later a library.