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Date: 1815 Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 3 Voortrek Street   Click to view large map Coordinates: 34°00'59.43" S 20°26'51.52" E Alt: 149m

Cypress Cottage. This house stands back from the road. It is rectangular and two rooms deep, now under iron roof. The outer woodwork is transitional, c1815, in that the half-width sashes beside the door are flush and small-paned, the others of the early Georgian type. There is a half-height, triangular front-gable, and a later bull-nosed veranda. (Fransen 2004:459) The house is now a guesthouse. 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 Swellendam Heritage Association. 2018. Treasures of Swellendam. Swellendam: Swellendam Heritage Association. pg 26