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Date: 1905 Client: David Edward McConnell Type: Homestead Style: Arts and Crafts Status: Extant Street: 3 Montrose Avenue   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°56'30.80" S 18°24'49.08" E Alt: 124m

Mr DE McConnell was a British director of the Union Castle Shipping Line. He named his house after the manor house at Bisham in Berkshire which was a childhood memory and the model he followed to build in Cape Town. This entry has been updated by Russel Leo the current owner of Abbey Manor which was turned into a Guesthouse in 2004. Visit the website of Abbey Manor. References: Johnson, Brian Andrew. 1987. Domestic architecture at the Cape, 1892-1912 : Herbert Baker, his associates and his contemporaries. Pretoria: UNISA (unpublished MA thesis). pg 363