Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
2930CB240
Site Name
Welverdient, Edendale, Pietermaritzburg
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:34
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Location
Location
Mapping
-29.599008, 30.382466
KwaZulu-Natal
- Umgungundlovu
- The Msunduzi
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Farm
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 775
Erf/Farm Portion: AB/RE
Edendale
Pietermaritzburg
Erf/Farm Portion: AB/RE
Edendale
Pietermaritzburg
Directions to Site
Facing the Church of the Covenant from Church Street, this house is slightly further back
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
This house is the oldest known double-storeyed dwelling erected outside the Cape Colony. It was built about 1840 by the Voortrekker leader. General Andries Pretorius, who also constructed the historic mill and the water furrow on the site. After the property, which was originally known as Welverdient, had been sold to the Rev. James Allison on 30 July 1851, the house became part of a flourishing Wesleyan mission station known as Edendale.
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
The figure EFGHXYZVW with the buildings thereon, being a portion of the Remainder of Lot AB of the f
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
7414
Notice Date
Notice Number
289
Archive Status
National monument (rescinded)
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