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Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Building type
Architectural features
ON 1863 MAP. ON C1867 PHOTO AS IS. SEE VAN DER RIET IX.14. LEWCOCK DATES C1840. SEE N.M.C. FILES.
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Associated People
History of use
Use Period | Use | |
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Location
Location
Mapping
-33.313975, 26.527858
Eastern Cape
- Sarah Baartman
- Makana
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Farm
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 3502
Address:
56 Beaufort Street
Grahamstown
Address:
56 Beaufort Street
Grahamstown
Owner(s)
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
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Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
This house is the only known example in South Africa of the European-Chinese architectural style of the 18th and 19th Centuries. It is a double-storeyed house with two projecting pavilions with bow-fronted ends. The pagoda roofs and hand-rail on the verandah is typically Chinese in style. The house dates from the 1830s.
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
Certain piece of land, with the building thereon, being Erf 3502, Grahamstown, situate in the Municipality of the City of Grahamstown, Division of Albany, measuring 21 square roods 96 square feet.
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
3032
Gazette Notice Status
Notice Date
Notice Number
458
Archive Status
National monument
3032-458.pdf (14.43 KB)
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