Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3325BC1
Site Name
The Look Out, Kirkwood District
Site Category
Building
Record Administration
Author
sahrisprojectmanager
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:17
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Archaeology Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 02:00.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
9/2/051/0003
Site Recording Admin Comments
The Lookout is a raised brick platform erected by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (the well-known author of Jock in the Bushveld) in order to get a better view of the countryside below the hill. The land around The Lookout has an unusual wide variety of botanical s
Bibliography archive:
Primary?
Yes
Location
Location
Mapping
-33.473639, 25.605889
KML File
Farm94.kml (4.24 KB)
Eastern Cape
  • Sarah Baartman
  • Sundays River Valley
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Farm
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 94
Erf/Farm Portion: Portion 1
Uitenhage
Owner(s)
South African Heritage Resources Agency
Directions to Site
Located some 65km from Port Elizabeth on the R336 traveling towards Kirkwood turning off at Sunlands and proceeding for ± 3-5km.
Grading
Autoid
Grading - 248884
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment

archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

Statement of Significance

The Lookout is a raised brick platform erected by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (the well-known author of Jock in the Bushveld) in order to get a better view of the countryside below the hill. The land around The Lookout has an unusual wide variety of botanical specimens. Sir Percy, his wife and their two sons are buried there.

Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration - 218824
Declaration Type
Provincial Heritage Site
Declaration Description

'The Look Out': An area of 284 square roods, part of subdivision Nn 1 of Treganon and a section of part of Buck Kraal, in the Division of Uitenhage, Cape of Good Hope, as set out in S.G. Diagram Nn. A.3907 of 21st December, 1923

Gazette Date
Gazette Number
5122
Gazette Notice Status
Current
Notice Date
Notice Number
1821
Deeds Number
T7307/1953, dated 20 May 1953
Diagram Number
SG A3907/1923, dated October 1923
Archive Status
National monument
5122-1821.pdf (138.47 KB)
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