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History: No. 156 Dorp Street bears the venerable name of Diaconies Remise and it was purchased by Historical Homes of South Africa Ltd. on account of its historical and architectural value.
On 16th December, 1753, the church council of the Dutch Reformed Church of Stellenbosch purchased a certain house, garden and erf from Maria Strand, the widow Schrik, for 4 000 guilder. The property was to be
used for evermore as a vicarage and a house for the “predicant” of the congregation. The erf, situated right on the wagon road, was actually a little farm, about two hectares in extent, and extended from Church Street right up to the Eerste River. Thus in 1799 the church council divided the huge garden in front of the vicarage into three erven and sold them. Two of these—No. 156, now under discussion, as well as No. 158, which ex tended from Dorp Street up to Church Street at that time—came into the possession of a certain Hermanus Metzelen. In 1807 the latter sold No. 156 to Pieter Malan who transferred it to Elizabeth Albertyn, the widow of Chris Wijckert, two years later. This erf then extended from Dorp Street up to Church Street and was so large that the widow had it divided into two parts. That part which was bounded by Church Street, she kept for herself, but she sold No. 156 in 1818 to Adolph Samuel van Coller.
He was the owner for many years, but in 1846 F. P. Hauptfleisch became the new owner of this property.
We have hot the faintest idea who of these different owners built the house; but according to experts the style of architecture indicates that it was built in the first decade of the nineteenth century. The house is also one of the very few with an authentic arched gateway next to the main building. This gate gives access from the street to the back-yard.
Proclaimed 1970"
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