Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    2930CD25
    Site Name
    Old Nel's Rust Dairy, Farm Nel's Rust 849, Richmond District
    Site Category
    Record Administration
    Author
    sahrisprojectmanager
    Last modified
    Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
    Built Environment Recordings
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    Inventory Reference
    Primary?
    Yes
    Classifications
    Building type
    Associated People
    History of use
      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -29.76464, 30.341851
      KwaZulu-Natal
      • Umgungundlovu
      • Richmond
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: 849
      Richmond
      Directions to Site
      From Pietermaritzburg-Richmond road take second turn to Baynesfield on right. At T in centre of vill
      Adjacent to a narrow gauge linking the butter factory to a branchline of the railway.
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      The Old Nel's Rust Dairy is one of the best designed and hence most architecturally significant agri

      Declaration
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      Declaration Description

      Very much in the arts-and-crafts mode, the dairy is built of local shale, typical of the Richmond district: a double storey building square in form with a wide steeply pitched verandah on all four sides, deliberately designed to keep the interior of the building, with its highly perishable contents: cool; the verandah has turned wooden verandah posts with simple ornamental braces: the Broseley tiled hipped roof is crowned with a cupola vent; shale walls with brick quoining:other features include the entrance portico over which is a gantry,loft entrance and weather vane: timber French door and double casement windows each with four vertically arranged panes:several massive wooden churns are still in existence.
      Alterations: major alterations and additions carried out over the years: much of the building has since been restored.
      The Old Dairy, with ten metres of land to the north-west, north-east and south-east sides of the structure, as well as two metres of land to the south-west side of the structure, situated on the Remainder of the farm Nel'sRust 849 in Richmond District.

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      15978
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      1598
      Deeds Number
      T223/1879 28 March 1879
      Diagram Number
      G849/848
      Archive Status
      National monument
      9-2-440-13.pdf (412.65 KB)
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