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Voortrek Street, No 190 - Historic House Swellendam, Western Cape

Date: 1840c Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 190 Voortrek Street

A T-shaped house on the west corner of Commissioner St. It has two half-width sashes flanking the from door, one full sash on the left and another on the right plus a french window opening into a buitekamer, the latter probably a slightly later addition. The house dates from c 1840, its simple ogee veranda being half-a-century later. [Fransen pp460/461.] 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.