Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3030CC15
    Site Name
    Paddock Station, Paddock, Port Shepstone District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
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    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
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    Recording date
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
    Use Period Use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -30.764386, 30.244942
      KwaZulu-Natal
      • Ugu
      • Ray Nkonyeni
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 7998
      Erf/Farm Portion: RE
      Directions to Site
      .... hereby declare the historic Pddock Station Complex, consisiting of the rectangular waiting-room, the store-room, the station-master's office and the general office and rest-station-master's office and the general office and rest-room, the slatter store-room, the station-master's house, the water tank, the sliding and goods shed and thetwo louvred milksheds, all situated on the narrow gauge line between Port Shepstone and Harding, at Paddock, in the Old Port Shepstone District, to be a national monument.
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      Historical and architectural interest - This late Edwardian railway station with its wood and iron b

      Declaration
      DeclarationName
      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      Significance: Historical and archetecturalinterest: this late Edwardian (Victorian) railway station with its wood and iron buildings, water tank and platform, togetherwith the siding, is an excellent example of the rural stations characteristic of the turn of the Century.The historic Paddock Station Complex with all the buildings and structures as detailed above thereon.
      Description: Gabled vented and verandahed station building.
      Site-Feat: Enseamble of Victorian railway buildings: mono-pitched waiting room; slatted fresh produce store (in poor condition): goods shed: station master'shouse (set well back from railway line)
      History:Limited use by Banana Express Railway.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      8421
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      2249
      Deeds Number
      T8274/1948 & T3180/1951
      Archive Status
      National monument
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