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Oslo House Swellendam, Western Cape

Date: 1850 Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Status: Extant Street: 120 Voortrek Street

Oslo House. A three-bay collage on the south-west corner of Siebert St, mid-19th-century in date. Its main feature is a very charming timber veranda of a type peculiar to Swellendam, with a pretty wooden bargeboard in good condition. [Fransen p460.] Books and articles that reference Oslo House 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 460