"Gateway ("Tuinpoort")"
Erf 1253
Address
Next to 33-37 Plein Street
Date built
c1789
Use
Gateway
Style
Cape Dutch
Architectual period
Type of building
General evaluation
Contributing
Suggested grading
IIIA
Present NHRA protection
Previous National Monument (1953)
Zoning
Date of survey
November 2009
Reference no.
11.15B
Description
"Pedestrian gateway with arched opening, now with wooden gate, capped with a raised ornament between two scrolls."
History
"The block, which was the site of the original church, was subdivided in 1783. The gateway was probably constructed in the garden wall by the first owner. It had the same plasterwork as the gables on the homesteads of Ida's Valley and Vredenburg-Vlottenberg (both 1789). (Oberholster)"
Alterations
"""It was recently repaired, whereby all ornamental plasterwork was inadvertently removed and reconstructed inaccurately."" (Fransen & Cook, p.144). Compare present appearance with AF Trotter drawing in the William Fehr Collection and Elliot photograph in Hans Fransen"
Social History
Significance in terms of NHRA
Significant
Significance
Significance
Assessed
Circa
1750 - 1799
Admin area
Stellenbosch
Allotment
Stellenbosch
Linked to erf/erven
1255
Linked address
NHRA protection
Previous National Monument (1953)
Environment
Wedged between two 20th C commercial buildings.