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History: De Goede Verwachting, which bears the date 1815 on its moulded front, is a building in the Georgian neo classical style. It stands in Cavalcade Road, Green Point, which is reached from York Road which turns sharply off the main road in a southerly direction and runs steeply up towards Signal Hill.
De Goede Verwachting is probably the oldest surviving house in the vicinity. On 27th January, 1813, a certain freeman of Cape Town, David Benjamine Kuuhle, applied for the land on which this building is situated. His request was granted early in 1814 and the well-known Louis Thibault surveyed the “farm”. On 14th April, 1814, a deed of transfer was passed, transferring the whole of Green Point, including the Metropolitan golf course, to Kuuhle. Kuuhle must have started building the house at once; on account of its size and the extent of the land, it was known for many years as the “Manor House”.
As the city expanded, more and more inroads were made into this estate, until in 1890 even the kitchen of the house was incorporated in the adjacent house!
Successive changes in ownership and the passing of a century and a half failed to impair the dignity of the building. Fortunately it eventually came into the hands of the Hon. Mr. Justice W. B. Windham and Mrs. Windham who restored it with great care and sensitivity. The moulded façade, the stoep with built-in seats at each end, the high, spacious rooms with yellow-wood floors, the fine partition between the front and back rooms, all these are redolent of the gracious living of those bygone days.
Proclaimed 1964"
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