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Date: 1800 Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°01'56.30" S 18°21'23.43" E Alt: 14m

The fine homestead seen today (later a restaurant) was built by Johannes Guilliam van Helsdingen during the years 1797 to 1800. The front gable is strongly influenced by that of Groot Constantia. The internal woodwork is still largely in place, including the screen that separated the voorkamer (front room) from the agterkamer (back room, where the family lived). The estate itself dates back to the earliest days of the settlement of the Cape. The original land grant was made in 1681, though it was only thirty years later that the first road linking Hout Bay with Constantia Nek was constructed. Throughout the eighteenth century there were a residence and substantial outbuildings on the site. Before the Herschels visited [in 1836], the homestead served as the summer residence of Abraham Josias Cloete, a renowned soldier and lawyer, who was the first member of the Cloete family to join the British army. [….] Abraham transferred the estate to his brother Daniel Jacob Cloete, who owned it from 1836 until 1850. (Warner 2006:129) It was declared a national monument in 1960, and is now a provincial heritage site. See SAHRIS See also SAHO. The restaurant at the homestead closed down in 2018 and the homestead is currently (January 2019) unoccupied. Books and articles that reference Kronendal Picton-Seymour, Désirée. 1989. Historical Buildings in South Africa. Cape Town: Struikhof Publishers. pg 48, 71 ill Warner, Brian. 2006. Cape landscapes : Sir John Herschel's sketches 1834-1838. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. pg 129