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Heritage Statement Erf 13536, Constantia Sillery HERITAGE STATEMENT ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA SILLERY MAY 2016 Prepared by Claire Abrahamse For Etienne Badenhorst CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 1 CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION FIGURES: 1.1 Site Description, Location and Use 1. Locality Plan 1.2 Statutory Context 2. Zoning Map 1.3 Development Proposal 3. Images of the historic structure and site 4. 1836 SG Diagram 2. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 5. 1880 SG Diagram 6. 1902 SG Diagram 3. NATURE OF HERITAGE RESOURCES/ 7. 1944 Aerial Photography STATEMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE 8. Constantia Valley Scale Heritage Assessment 9. Sillery Valley Scale Heritage Assessment 3.1 The Constantia Valley Scale 10. Plan of the existing cottage 3.2 The Sillery Sub-Valley Scale 11. Suggested dating of the cottage 3.3 The Site Scale 12. Photographs of the recent damage to the cottage 3.4 Individual Buildings and Landscape Features 13. Council plans for approval 14. Proposed mitigation measures 4. HERITAGE INDICATORS 5. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT APPENDIX: 6. ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE IMPACT 1. COMMENT FROM THE COCT HERITAGE OFFICIALS 2. COMMENT FROM THE CPOA 7. Analysis OF THE GRADING REGARDING THE impact OF THE PROPOSAL 3. CORRESPONDENCE WITH HWC TO DATE (FROM MICHAEL DALL ARCHITECTS) 8. RESPONSE OF CLIENT TO THE PROPOSED MITIGATION MEASURES 9. RECOMMENDATIONS 10. BIBLIOGRAPHY CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1.2 Statutory Context 1.1 Site Description, Location and Use The owner of erf 13536 Constantia wishes to build a family home upon the subject site. The plans for this new house will involve the refurbishment and integration of the existing, modest domestic cottage, which is older than 60 years. Erf 13536 is located in the Constantia Valley, along Sillery Avenue. It lies between the main streets within the Constantia Valley – the Constantia Main Road and the Spaanschemat River Road. Erf 13536 measures 1465 m2 and is zoned SR1 (Figure 1 & 2). The property forms part of a secure estate that is in the process of being In terms of the National Heritage resources Act (NHR Act No. 25 of 1999), any alterations to structures older than developed. All of the sites were subdivided in 2008, and were the subject of a land restitution claim by the Sadien 60 years require a permit from the provincial heritage authority, HWC. Family, which has now been resolved.1 It has a fairly old house upon the subject property, which indicates that it has been used for residential purposes for quite some time (Figure 3 – photographs of the existing building). The building plans were previously submitted to HWC, and the heritage officials requested a heritage statement in order to assist them in their decision-making. This report seeks to fulfil that request. This Heritage Statement is being undertaken at the request of HWC, who received drawings from the project architect, Mr. Michael Dall, as part of a Section 34 application in terms of the National Heritage Resources Act. On review of the plans, the heritage officials called for a heritage statement to assist them in their assessment of the application. 1.3 Development Proposal The site is a component of the cultural landscape of the Constantia Valley winelands. Sillery Farm, towards the The development proposal for the site is to construct a large family house upon the erf, which will incorporate and bottom of Sillery Avenue, is the only site in Constantia that is able to add “colour” to the now rather mono-cultural refurbish an existing, historic cottage thereon. landscape of wine farms by exhibiting another agricultural type – the cultivation of flowers and orchards. The networks of water furrows within the broader site are remnants of this, now much diminished, farming activity. The unique topography and geography of the site, together with the well-established treelines and historic landscape patterns allow it to exhibit the landscape features characteristic of the Constantia Valley, which lend it its particular “sense of place”. These include the embracing mountain range, avenues of trees, public open spaces, wetlands, axial alignments of building and landscape groups, and scenic drives/routes, as well as landmark structures. The site also has social significance as a site of apartheid forced removals under the Group Areas Act. Other cultural markers of this removed community in the vicinity of the site include the Strawberry Lane Burial Ground, and the Sadien Mosque. The site thus has considerable historical, social, symbolic, aesthetic, architectural, technological and environmental significance. A number of heritage themes can thus be identified related to the nature and history of the site. Erf 13536 has heritage significance as a place of: • Scenic beauty. • Social and racial differentiation (history of slavery, forced removals etc.). • Landmark contribution. 1 The Sadien Family were awarded an alternate 8.9h site bordering Rathfelder and Brommesvlei Roads (http://www. iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/constantia-land-claim-settled-1482414). CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 3 FIGURE 2: SITE PLAN, WITH SUBJECT SITE INDICATED IN RED. FIGURE 1: LOCALITY PLAN, WITH SITE INDICATED IN RED. CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 4 FIGURE 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SITE, TAKEN BY MICHAEL DALL ARCHITECTS, SPETEMBER 2013. CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 5 FIGURE 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SITE, TAKEN BY MICHAEL DALL ARCHITECTS, SPETEMBER 2013. CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 6 FIGURE 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SITE, TAKEN BY MICHAEL DALL ARCHITECTS, SPETEMBER 2013. CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 7 FIGURE 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SITE, TAKEN BY MICHAEL DALL ARCHITECTS, SPETEMBER 2013. CLAIRE ABRAHAMSE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, HERITAGE HERITAGE STATEMENT REPORT. SILLERY, ERF 13536, CONSTANTIA. MAY 2016. 8 2. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The history of the Old Sillery Farm has been thoroughly documented by social historian and heritage The subject site, which formed part of erf 2274, was purchased by Dout Sadien. One of the conditions in practitioner, Melanie Attwell. Attwell notes that the Spaanschemat River was formalized into a water furrow the Deed of Sale was that the sluit (furrow) from the spring (to the north-east of the property) should remain during the 18th Century, and is thus the oldest man-made feature on the site (Figure 4 – SG Diagram 127 unchanged and that the owner of Lot K (the portion with the historic Sillery farmhouse and cellar thereon) of 1836 clearly indicates the “watercourse to Bergvliet”). Water furrows enabled the fields in the area to be should have free access to it (TD 13429, 12/12/1902) (Baumann & Winter, 2003). irrigated using a gravity feed system, and were in existence on the site for a considerable length of time before Sillery was consolidated as an estate (Attwell, pg. 3). The Sadien family retained ownership of the farm for almost 60 years, and therefore the subject structure would have been constructed during the period of their ownership (see the 1944 aerial photohraphy for the site – Sillery itself was a 19th Century farm estate, made up of deductions from two of the “great estates”: Bergvliet Figure 7). and Witteboomen. Deductions from these farms were made in the 1860s and 1870s and were purchased by William Brounger, who consolidated them into the farm Sillery in 1880. The 1880 Surveyor General Diagram of the estate clearly indicates the access route from Constantia Main Road (now Sillery Avenue) (Figure 5). The However, the mid-20th Century would see two developments that would significantly and irredeemably change SG Diagram also indicates some of the historic landscape features of the site, namely the two watercourses as the social and physical context of Old Sillery: forced removals under the Group Areas Act, and suburbanisation well as a vineyard. of the Constantia Valley. Brounger was a railway engineer who, in 1870, joined the government service at the Cape and in 1873 was In the 1960s, the
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