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Koornlands Cottage - The Cottage Swellendam, Western Cape

Date: 1832 Client: Otto Willem Philippus Falck Type: Cottage Style: Cape Georgian Status: Extant Street: 5 Voortrek Street

This house stands on land granted in 1832 to Otto Willem Philippus Falck, a son of JAH Falck of Utrecht. He probably built the house in that year or a little earlier. It is T-shaped and thatched, and has two half-width windows beside the door with its elegant fanlight. The house was somewhat altered cl855, a dormer window (not a dormer gable) having been inserted, and windows with larger panes. It was also converted from a rectangle with a double row of rooms into a T. Its ends are hipped. The 'Cottage', though it retains some original inner Woodwork, is architecturally interesting as a clear example of organic growth. It is of value as part of a group, next to the Drostdy complex the best in Swellendam. [Fransen p459.] 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.