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Date: c1890 Type: Homestead Style: Victorian Status: Extant Street: 8 Hermanus Steyn Street   Click to view large map Coordinates: 34°01'07.73" S 20°27'02.82" E Alt: 140m

Bukkenburg House. This house of c1890 has one stoepkamer and a bull-nose veranda with the elegant timber fretwork edge that is typical of Swellendam Victorian work. It has a double-arched door and quoined openings.(Fransen 2004:459) All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References: 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 459 Richardson, Deirdré. 2001. Historic Sites of South Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. pg 153 Swellendam Heritage Association. 2018. Treasures of Swellendam. Swellendam: Swellendam Heritage Association. pg 19