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The wood-and-iron house was built in 1887 by Samuel Todd who was the grandfather of the present owner, Mr A.L. Truter. In the early days people in Barberton got their water from a well on the stand where the house is situated. There is still a military fence from the Second Anglo-Boer War days. Samuel Todd played an important role in the history of Barberton. He was the first person to grow fruit in the Lowveld and t o import lychees to South Africa.The single storeyed Victorian style wood-and-iron house consists of a verandah and porch, two bedrooms as well as an outside kitchen. One of the bedrooms has a sky-light. The house also has three shooting plates from a blockhouse which was situated on the hill behind the house. Additionally, there is still an outside toilet with a bucket system. Some of the inside walls are over half a metre thick which would suggest that these were internal division walls constructed of large sun-dried bricks. The original fabric of the house is largely intact, including the original old fashioned light fittings.