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Date: 1891 Client: NGK Type: Parsonage Style: Victorian : Eclecticism Status: Extant Street: Main   Click to view map Coordinates: 32°51'53.52" S 18°41'58.85" E Alt: 152m

See more photographs Fine example of a verandah house with 5 bays (4 windows located symmetrically around a central entrance door) flanked by steep pitched roofed wings as 'stoepkamers' with verandah formed by continuous steep pitch of main roof supported on timber posts and Y brackets, central dormer ventilator and roof dormers located in captured gabled 'stoepkamers'. The left wing has service doors to the side giving access to the postal agency and registry. References: 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 348