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Date: 1899 Type: Beach House Status: Extant Street: 20 cor Beach Road and Baker Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°06'21.20" S 18°28'22.63" E

One of the more modest houses in the very fine row of Edwardian homes in Beach Rd facing the sea, is the modest single-storey house that Baker designed for himself in 1899. It is built in plaster finish on a stone plinth round an atrium (now covered), and two simple 'Dutch' gables mark either end of the whitewashed facade. The roof is of cedar shingles. [Fransen 2004:155] The house in recent years accommodated The Joan St Leger Lindbergh Arts Foundation; it now forms part of The St Leger Retirement Hotel. Information supplied by William MARTINSON The attached drawing is Baker's initial design for Sandhills, with a pencil cross through the plan. As you will see, his first attempt was a traditional Baker Cape house with central hall and stoep - quite different from his final design in which he uses an atrium for the first time. (John Stewart, October 2022) Books that reference House Baker: Sandhills Fransen, Hans. 2004. The old buildings of the Cape. A survey of extant architecture from before c1910 in the area of Cape Town - Calvinia - Colesberg - Uitenhage. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. pg 155 Greig, Doreen. 1970. Herbert Baker in South Africa. Cape Town: PURNELL. pg 60-61 Stewart, John . 2021. Sir Herbert Baker : architect to the British Empire. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pg 41, 42, 54, 62, 67, 72, 87, 124