Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3227CB2
    Site Name
    Ganger's Cottage No 17, East London and Queenstown Railway, Stutterheim District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Archaeology Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Recording date
    Primary?
    Yes
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -32.598584, 27.478538
      Eastern Cape
      • Amathole
      • Amahlathi
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 701 , Mgwali
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This fortified house is one of the only remaining examples of a series of similar structures which were built during the Frontier War of 1877-1878 to protect the railway line between East London and Toise River.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The historic fortified house, with five metres of surrounding land, situate on a certain piece of land being Erf 2279, Stutterheim, in the Municipality and Division of Stutterheim, and measuring three four nine comma three seven nought six (349,3706) hectares.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      5346
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2382
      Deeds Number
      Certificate of Consolidated Title 2308/1975, dated 29 October 1975.
      Archive Status
      National monument
      Media
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