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An unadorned Victorian doublestorey of which it is
said that one window was adapted to facilitate the
movement of coffins into and from the former
funeral parlour inside. The problem of a house
situated on the comer of a street was partially
resolved by installing a front door to both façades,
although the straight parapet and moulding have
been omitted on the Andringa Street front.
DIACONIES
REMISE
156 Dorp Street
This early nineteenth
century thatched dwelling was modernised after a
century with an Edwardian gable and plaster
ornamentation once painted brick red. The room
over the coach entrance is also found at d'Ouwe
Werf and Saxenhof.
FIRST
LUTHERAN CHURCH (1854)(U.S. ART GALLERY)
c/o Dorp and Bird Streets
Designed and built by
the German settler Carl Otto Hager as a
contribution to the small local Lutheran
congregation. Hager later became the chief
exponent of the neo-gothic style for some two
dozen Dutch Reformed churches, inter alia
Stellenbosch, Caledon (demolished) and Piketberg.
127,129,133,135
DORP STREET
127-135 Dorp Street
This series of
double-storeys were erected with the aid of state
subsidies after the great fires of 1803, in order
to encourage homeowners to build flat roofed
dwellings, rather than the fire prone thatched
houses. The best example of this group, two of
which were demolished to make way for a road, is
Transvalia (127 Dorp Street) with its plaster
architrave surrounding a fanlight and vertically
divided three paneled door.
This late nineteenth
double-storey pitched roof is similar to
Bergh-huis and the earlier and more attractive
Erfurt House. It accommodates the head office of
the Cape Women’s Agricultural Association, and
also the only exclusively textile museum in the
country.
Open: Mondays to
Fridays: 09:00 - 12:00. Entrance fee R5
STELLENBOSCH
GYMNASIUM BUILDING (1866)
122/120 Dorp Street
The
first building specially erected for this
educational institution, it had to be vacated
after eight years
because of the loud traffic noise. The Gymnasium
was subsequently relocated to the annexe of the
Blettermanhuis.
100-116
DORP STREET
100-116 Dorp Street
This
is the finest row of double-storey nineteenth
century flat roofs in Stellenbosch. (Voorgelegen
ca. 1798) and 102 (ca. 1817) used to be gabled
houses, as could be deduced from the half-width
windows on either side of the front door, that
permitted light into the broad entrance hall. The
front doors of the other houses merely provided an
entrance to the passage leading to the broad rear
portion of each house.
Diagonally across the street, 103 Dorp Street is
situated near the erstwhile threshing-floor of the
pioneer farm Voorgelegen, depicted on the panorama
above. The building material of this house dates
back to ca.1794. The roof of this T-shaped thatch
dwelling was later replaced with corrugated iron.
The verandah was added in 1929. The original
yellow wood ceilings of ca. 1794 are still
beautifully intact. Until recently, this building
housed a surgery.
LA
GRATITUDE (1798)
95 Dorp Street
The
Rev. Meent Borcherds had this H-plan house built
among his vineyards shortly before the dilapidated
rectory, where he lived before was destroyed by
the fire of 1803. La Gratitude was also burned
down during the twentieth century, when only the
fanlight remained intact. Since its renovation an
extra room was added on either side in front. Old
photographs indicate that the woodwork appeared to
be different from the present and was in fact
painted, while the gabled pilasters were also
crowned with urns.
