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Church Street 21 Tulbagh, Western Cape

Date: 1853 Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Status: Extant Street: 21 Church Street

This house is one of the few houses in Church St which had retained its thatch and gables, though it had been given steel windows. The property was sold by the Church in 1852, to CJF Theron, who lived at no.25. He built on it straightaway, for the tall, pointed gable — no great beauty — is dated 1853. It is a fairly long, rectangular, two-rooms-deep house with two rooms on either side of the entrance passage, each room with a small sash. The property was bought by WW Theron in 1877, this man’s son, Danie, of Boer War fame, spent part of his youth here. [Fransen Hans, 2004. A guide to the old buildings of the Cape. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. p, 370-371.] All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.