Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2825CA2
    Site Name
    Powder Magazine, Town Commonage, Boshof
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
    Identifiers
    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -28.540459, 25.244541
      Free State
      • Lejweleputswa
      • Tokologo
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 432
      Boshof
      Administration of Protections
      Administration Description

      Date: 2021-12-09
      Location indicated on the NGI current mosaic
      Action Status: Accepted
      Site Action: InformationUpdate

      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This powder magazine, which was designed by the architect D. E. Wentink in September 1898, is an oblong building that was built of local dolerite stone. It was presumably erected with a view to the impending Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The historic powder magazine, situate on certain unsurveyed land on the Town Commonage of Boshof, known as the farm Boshof Dorpsgronden 432. Districi of Boshof. Province of the.Drange Free State.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      8918
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2180
      Deeds Number
      982/1925
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9-2-303-11.pdf (291.47 KB)
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