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Bordeaux Hotel Sea Point , Cape Town, Western Cape James BISSET: Architect 1864 attributed William Hood (Billy) GRANT: Architect Alterations and additions 1929

Date: 1864 : 19?? : 1929 Type: Hotel Status: Demolished c1959 Street: c/o Beach Road and Dover Road   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°54'47.29" S 18°23'19.72" E Alt: 11m

1929: Alterations and additions by WH GRANT (Pryce-Lewis list 15 491). Bordeaux was originally a house, built for Pieter Marais c1864. He had exclusive use for the tidal pool at the seafront opposite for his paralysed wife [see Graaff's Pool].The house was later the home of Sir Jacobus Graaff. Photographs show that the house was originally single-storeyed, with a central 2-storey turret. Graaff added a second storey to the house and a third to the turret. The house was converted into an hotel in the late 1920s, and demolished in 1958, to make way for a large block of flats, also named Bordeaux a very large nine-storey block of luxury flats. According to the City of Cape Town Official Guide (1950), the hotel had 73 rooms but only 14 bathrooms. (Arthur Radburn, December 2024) References: Radford, D. 1979. The architecture of the Western Cape, 1838-1901. A study of the impact of Victorian aesthetics and technology on South African architecture. Johannesburg: Unpublished Ph.D thesis. Dept of Arch. University of the Witwatersrand. pg 297