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Click to view map Coordinates: | House Robinson can be described as a well detailed, regional modernist house with a simple, low sloping, double pitched roof supported on rafters, with bag washed brickwork. Expansive fenestration to the living rooms and main bedroom on the southside capture the very fine views of the Nahoon estuary. The garden has until 2024 remained without a boundary wall, making distant views of the river possible from the street. A curvilinear driveway provided access to a single carport on the north side and to the front door of the house. A minor service wing was located on the northwest side of the house. The house was commissioned by Mr and Mrs Robinson in 1963 and they lived in the house for some 59 years, until its sale in 2022. In 2023 Ross Robinson's son, provided the following useful background history: My mother bought the land, which at the time was a farm called Beaumont Estate and was purchased for 1,100 pounds on the 1st October 1959 from P. Macdonald. At the time there were only two other houses in the area. Some years later they constructed the house on the property. My mother Cherie R. Robinson, was a director at W. J. Palmer & Co which was a tin manufacturing and electroplating company in East London. My father Bryan A. Robinson worked at Exide Batteries. At the time Exide was doing some renovations to their factory premises and he asked the architect, Mr Barry Lange, if he would help design the house for the property, which he was happy to do. The house that was designed was a modest house with a courtyard that my mother had designed to include a small Japanese garden. This garden was later removed to accommodate a swimming pool. William Martinson, October 2024 |
