Burgher House
Erf "3389, 607 & 604"
Address
Market Street cnr Blom Street cnr Alexander Street
Date built
1797
Use
Offices
Style
Cape Dutch
Architectual period
Cape Dutch
Type of building
Residential
General evaluation
Outstanding
Suggested grading
II
Present NHRA protection
Previous National Monument (1961)
Zoning
Date of survey
December 2012
Reference no.
15.03
Description
"H-shaped thatched house with Neo-Classical pediment gable with 15x15 casement. Bo-en -onder door with 20-pane fanlight and early plaster architrave, flanked by half-casements and 15x15 casements, all with solid shutters. Straight back gable (spurious - Fransen & Cook) and modern pergola with old vine.Fine capped wall with half-scrolls at gateways. The wagon house attached to the south side of the house and the cottage facing Market St known as the van der Riet House were demolished."
History
"Anthonie Fick gained possession (but not transfer) of the site in 1796 and completed the house the following year. It was transferred to the Landdrost Ryno Johannes van der Riet in 1815 (he had probably been in possession since Fick's death in c1808) and to Rev Paul Daniel Luckoff, the Rhenish missionary, in 1839, serving as the Rhenish parsonage. In 1879 it passed to the Rhenish Mission Society. It was eventually divided up and inhabited by several families, and fell into disrepair. In 1957 the Government acquired it and presented it to the Municipality in 1959, which restored the house - unfortunately demolishing the wagon house and van der Riet House in the process."
Alterations
See History.
Social History
Significance in terms of NHRA
Significant
Significance
Significance
Assessed
Circa
1750 - 1799
Admin area
Stellenbosch
Allotment
Stellenbosch
Linked to erf/erven
Linked address
NHRA protection
Previous National Monument (1961)
Environment
Part of historic Braak.