Grading - 249668

The original portion of this dwelling dates from the 1840s and was built by Henry Green, Assistant Commissioner-General of the Orange River Sovereignty. The house was later occupied, amongst others, by the Rev. Andrew Murray, President M.T. Steyn’s father, Judge A. W. Fawkes and from 1925 to 1932 by Chief Justice Jacob de Villiers. The house was altered into its present form in the Cape Dutch idiom in 1902.