Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2930DD150
    Site Name
    Trevean, 258 Wakesleigh (Cnr Kenmare) Road, Durban
    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
    Use Period Use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -29.883286, 30.952569
      KwaZulu-Natal
      • eThekwini
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 45
      Erf/Farm Portion: RE
      Address:
      258 Wakesleigh Road
      Bellair
      Durban
      Directions to Site
      From N3 coming into Durban CBD take Brickfield Rd off-ramp and turn right (south) and first right on
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      This imposing dwelling-house was designed and erected in 1882 by the well-known architects Robert Sellers Upton and Philip Dudgeon. The billiard room was added in 1898. Trevean House is probably the best example of a late-Colonial Victorian building in Natal.

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The property with the so-called Trevean House thereon, being the remainder of Lot 1 of Subdivision R of the farm Bellair 823; situated in the City and County of Durban. Province of Natal, and mesuring three comma four nine three three (3,4933) acres.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      7687
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      1593
      Deeds Number
      T20857/1973
      Diagram Number
      T2242/906
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9-2-407-32.pdf (291.31 KB)
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