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Date: post 1878 Type: Homestead Status: Extant

Hantam House, a three bay Karoo-type house with openings and corners quoined in smooth plaster. The Worth painting of 1878 shows the site still open, the house must have been erected soon after as a c1900 photograph shows a house of some age. (Fransen 2004:536). The neighbouring house, now used as an annex to Hantam House, is well restored. It has a rounded gable with a shell motif. Since before 2004 to date [2016] it has been used as a coffee shop. Books and articles that reference Hantam House and Annex Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 536 ill