9/2/081/0079 | SAHRIS

Overview

Identifiers

Inventory Number

3418AC59

Site Name

Knight's Villa, 198 Main Road, Muizenberg, Cape Town

Site Category

Building

Record Administration

Author

sahrisprojectmanager

Post date

Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:21

Last modified

Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43

Structures

Built Environment Recordings

Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.

Identifiers

Inventory Reference

9/2/081/0079

Recording date

06/01/2006

Primary?

Yes

Classifications

Building type

House

Architectural features

Bibliography archive: Walker

Associated People

History of use

Use Period	Use
Current	Residential	View

Location

Mapping

-34.095834, 18.466294

Western Cape

City of Cape Town

Land Parcel Details

Type of land parcel

Farm

Land Parcel Reference

Erf/Farm No: 87023
Address:
198 Main Road
Muizenberg
Cape Town

Gradings

Grading

Autoid

Grading - 249195

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

In 1901 Clifford Hume Knight bought this property and built the house. It was bought in 1939 by Princess Ida Labia. The large house is reminiscent of a Venetian "palazzo" and is in the neo-Renaissance style.

Declarations

Declaration

DeclarationName

Declaration - 221163

Declaration Type

Provincial Heritage Site

Declaration Description

The property with the historic dwelling thereon, situated on certain piece of redeemed quitrent land at Muizenberg, in the City of Cape town, Cape Division, being Erf 87023, Cape Town, at Muizenberg and measuring six thousand nine hundred and twenty (6 9

Gazette Date

10/09/1982

Gazette Number

8374

Notice Date

09/09/1982

Notice Number

1925

Archive Status

National monument

8374-1925 Knight's Villa 198 Main Road Muizenberg Cape Town.pdf (167.14 KB)

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