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Date: 1840 Type: Mill Status: Extant Street: 243 Voortrek Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°02'12.16" S 20°25'32.96" E Alt: 107m

Now located far back behind current street restaurant but originally located on the old Swellendam road. Possibly built by Groenewald (for whom it is also named) in the mid C19. It was once a mill, attested to by the western wall, of great thickness so as to support the mill wheel and machinery proximate to the adjacent stream which powered it. The stream is also where a bamboo thicket grows, characteristic of the location for its purpose and planted as useful construction material at the time. It has subsequently been converted into a cottage, 4 bay arranged asymmetrically with a door to the left, all now under a corrugated iron, although probably originally thatch. [Fransen 2002:162; SHA 2018:72] Books and articles that reference Old Mill / Groenewald's Mill / Mill Cottage 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 462 Swellendam Heritage Association. 2018. Treasures of Swellendam. Swellendam: Swellendam Heritage Association. pg 72 (entry 101)