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History: Navarre is a small H—shaped house, one back wing being a new addition. The facade of the house which is one of the finest in the Cape has one full—width and one— half—width window on each side of the door: the windows are casements, small — only four rows of panes in height — and complete with old shutters and catches. The stable— door has moulded panels. The gable .is an excellent example of the late neo—classical gable of 1815, with four pilasters topped by handsome string—course has not yet disappeared and cuts the inner pair of pilasters short above the door, but the outer pair continue through the string—course down to the ground. Both gable-face and wall above the windows are decorated with classical swags and the pilasters with stars.
In one of’ the outbuildings there is a brandsolder, the lower layer of which consists of’ reeds. Facing it there is another building, modernized, which probably served as an earlier dwelling—house. Its walls are in One place as much as 3 feet thick. This building has an end—gable similar to those of the main building. The house, now known as Navarre, was originally the homestead of the farm Nooitgedacht which was granted to Daniel Josias Malan in 1796. At that stage the farm measured only five morgen. A further grant of 13 morgen was made to his widow in 1813. The present house, with its late neo classical gable which bears the initials JJM, was built by Malan’s son, Johannes Jacobus Malan, in 1814. He inherited the farm in 1830.
In the latter half of the nineteenth century the farm was subdivided and transferred to Malan’s heirs.
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