Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3326BC7
    Site Name
    56 Beaufort Street, Grahamstown
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    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
      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
      Grading
      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.

      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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