Overview
Identifiers
Record Administration
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Identifiers
Classifications
1789-92 Thibault, Louis Michel; 1903 Baker and Masey; 1926 Kendall, Franklin Kaye;;SAB May 1926:53 restoration; UCT BC 206: Box 45-46 ; Keath c1991:108
Bibliography archive: attrib; FK KENDALL suggests that Thibault rebuilt the whole house 'when he rebuilt the wine cellar' (1791-92); Kendall 1927; Quarterly Bull SA Libr (I) 1946-47:99; Lewcock 1963:17; Oberholster 1972:51; DSAB I:788 ;
Location
Location
- City of Cape Town
Cape Town
Gradings
Grading
The Groot Constantia State Estate previously formed part of the farm Constantia, which was granted to Simon van der Stel in 1685 and was subdivided after his death in 1712. The farm Constantia with the Cape Dutch manor house thereOn was acquired in 1885 by the colonial government as an experimental wine farm. Since 1975 the farmlands of the farm Hoop op Constantia, as well as a portion of the farm Nova Constantia, have been purchased by the State. Portion 2 of Tokal State Forest 129, covering 22,1725 hectares, was declared part of the Groot Constantia State Estate in 1978. The wines produced on this farm are already world famous. The Cape Dutch Groot Constantia manor house, which was built by Simon van der Stel in 1692, was destroyed by fire on 19 December 1925. The house was restored in 1926-27 by the architect F. K. Kendall.
The Cape Dutch manor house known as Hoop op Constantia (formerly Klein Constantia) is a U-shaped house with only three gables.
The Groot Constantia manor house is at present used as a museum by the South African Cultural History Museum.
Declarations
Declaration
"Government Reserve" as set out in Map No. 25 P.F. of S. 9368, S.G.O. 1924, Tracing No. 1001 of Ex. No. B. 7 of 1925, in extent 2 morgen, 445 square roods.
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