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High View Trading Station
Butterworth district, Eastern Cape
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Click to view large map Coordinates: | Of the wood-and-iron trader's shop only the plinth and concrete floor and remnants of the sun-dried brick lining - in English bond (345 mm thick) - are still extant. A large rectangular garage in dressed stone (probably granite or dolerite) with a substantial stone lintel survives substantially intact. The garage was apparently built for Mr Webb c. 1924 by the stone mason who had recently completed the Butterworth Great War Memorial. The stone for the garage and the memorial was quarried from large boulders to the north of the Trading Station. Both houses remain habitable - however the south verandah roof of the first house has been removed and all windows and doors facing onto the verandah have been bricked up and plastered over. The substantial underground water storage cistern on the south side of the shop is no longer functioning as intended and has lost its roof. (William MARTINSON, January 2016) (Thompson Site 375) References:
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