Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3326DB2
    Site Name
    White Gables, 15 Park Road, Port Alfred
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Archaeology Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -33.590689, 26.895333
      KML File
      Erf825.kml (4.36 KB)
      Eastern Cape
      • Sarah Baartman
      • Ndlambe
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 825
      Erf/Farm Portion: Remainder
      Address:
      15 Park Road
      Port Alfred
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This early Victorian dwelling-house with its two impressive triangular front gables dates from the 1830s and was erected by Captain Thomas Cowedroy. The two murals in the billiard room are also noteworthy.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The so-called White Gables house, including of the servants' rooms, as well as the land in front of the house stretching to Park Road and three metres of land around the other three sides, situated on certain piece of freehold land in the Municipality of Port Alfred in the Division of Bathurst, being the Remainder of Erf 825, Port Alfred, in extent two-thousand and sixty-one (2 061) square metres.
      Deed of Transfer T15904/1982, dated 5 May 1982.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      9620
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      538
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9620-538_0.pdf (194.92 KB)
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