Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		Macrorie House - South Hill Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal Frederick John ALEXANDER: Architect c1880

Date: c1860 : c1880 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 11 Loop St   Click to view map Coordinates: Alt: 666m

Built around 1860 the house was rented, in 1870, by the Bishop of Maritzburg, William Kenneth Macrorie. The Bishop went on to buy the house and call it South Hill. (SA Venues) Additions were done about 1880 by FJ ALEXANDER. -------------------- The stables were built in 1852 by Edward Few, the property sold to Paul Henwood in 1864 and then bought by Bishop Macrorie in 1873. The Macrorie’s owned it until 1898. The building went into decline but was saved in the 1960’s by the Simon Van Der Stel Foundation and opened in 1971, and the museum in 1975. The house also has a small chapel built by Macrorie. (Source: South African National Society) "Macrorie House Museum, a landmark of cultural and historic significance in Pietermaritzburg, is to be closed down. The decision, made by the museum's board of trustees, has been prompted by reduced funding [by Province] and threats to the collection and the building as a result of criminal activity, which added to the museum's financial burden." (Source: The Witness, 21 June 2016) "Eventually, the board resolved to close the museum and transfer whatever artefacts it could to the Baynesfield Museum on Baynesfield Estate ...the museum consists of buildings on three properties. The buildings include the house of Bishop William Macrorie, and were furnished with various pieces of furniture and other artefacts."(Source: The Heritage Portal, 2018)