Grosvenor House

"Fine double storey parapetted 3-bay house with fluted pilasters between bays. Original joinery: 'bo-en-onderdeur' with 20-pane fanlight; fine plaster surround and small dentilled pediment with palm tree motif of DR church seal just above front door, flanked by half-sashes; 20x20 sashes to both floors, the outer ones on the ground floor with solid half-shutters. H-shaped, but with courts between wings now enclosed. The double-storey house is flanked by single-storey parapetted rooms, each with a 6x6 sash and glazed door with 3-pane fanlight, the one on the right possibly part of the original building (see history), the one on the left post-1860 (Fransen & Cook).Thatched pre-1817 coach house with mock chimney end gable, on street boundary to right of house; two 6x6 casements with solid shutters to loft, timber double doors to carriage house."

Residential

"Land granted in 1781 to Christiaan Ludolph Neethling, 'Onderkoopman en Sekretaris des Raads van Justisie', and enlarged by him in 1782. He built a simple rectangular house which probably forms the core of the present building. Transferred to FG Holtzapfel in 1790 and Reinhard Perreyn (son-in-law of Landdrost RJ van der Riet) in 1798. In 1799 Johann Wilhelm Herold bought the house and probably enlarged it to an H-shape. He also added the second floor, possibly after the fire of 1803. It was bought by Adrian Roux in 1821, and in 1825 his widow married FRL Neethling, son of the first owner - who was probably responsible for the pine screen. From 1872-75 it was owned by Sir Christoffel Brand, first Speaker of the old Cape Parliament. It was then owned by the Collins family until 1942. It has been a museum since 1948. (Fransen & Cooke)"

See History. Restored 1967.