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Date: 1839 Type: Homestead Style: Cape Dutch Status: Extant Street: 218 Voortrek Street   Click to view map Coordinates: 34°01'02.13" S 20°26'59.71" E Alt: 142m

Originally called Hopley House. Built in 1839 by William Musgrave Hopley, an ex-naval officer who became surveyor in Swellendam from c1821 till c1868. The house is H-shaped, with wings close together, the front under thatch, the (longer) back wings under hipped iron. Its gable is a mannered neoclassical form of the Swellendam Gable-straight-'eared' with linear moldings, the end gables of hol-bol form with straight proud-moulded chords at ceiling and ridge height surmounted by a semi-circular cap. The 5-bay street facade is symmetrical around the front door which set in an arched recess surmounted by an arched spoke-fanlight. The windows are 24 paned-each in 4x6 array sash windows with straight moulded architraves. The pilasters at the facade ends have a scroll decoration at the capitals. All gables bear dormer cottage-paned windows of 3x4 array. [Fransen 2004:461; SHA 2018:68 (entry 93)] Books that reference Hope Lodge 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 461 Swellendam Heritage Association. 2018. Treasures of Swellendam. Swellendam: Swellendam Heritage Association. pg 68 (entry 93)