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History: One of the early owners, Lambert Myburgh is likely to have built this house or enlarged an existing house in about 1745.

This farm had first been granted in 1696 to Pieter de Vos; After various transfers, it became the property of Johannes Nicolaas Colyn in 1772. Colyn built the gable in 1773, probably upon an existing house; in 1778 he was given a regrant of the farm because of disputes about his boundaries, and lack of a diagram on the original grant. In 1820 the farm was acquired by Johannes Gysbertus Faure, the first of the Faure owners.
Visual Description: The house is an incomplete H, with a missing right back wing; it is however evident that this wing once existed. The front gable is identical to one of the outbuildings’ at Spier, and is a good example of a gable with a purely holbol outline with the edge- mould of the convex curves starting to curl onto the gable face. The end-gables are also holbol. The back gable is likely to have have fallen with the missing wing; an eaves-line stringcourse and a plaster swag above an old casement gable-window are all that remains of it. Three supporting buttresses indicate that more than one wing was in danger of collapsing.

The woodwork of the facade dates from the middle of the 19th century, at which time the fenestration was also altered, and an entrance passage replaced the voorkamer.

The werf of Vergenoegd is very interesting. There are two enclosed yards, the older, the one behind the house and the later, larger one in front. A small gateway with heavy mouldings leads into it from one side, and appears at some time to have been raised in height. In front of the house is a bell-tower. There is a long werf wall.
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