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Laetitia Building, 44 Alexander Street, Stellenbosch

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Post date: 07/08/2012
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History: Just above the so-called coachman’s cottage stands Laetitia, a double-storeyed, flat-roofed house which over looks the Braak.
The land on which this building is situated was originally part of a very big erf which was granted to one Christiaan Krynauw in 1770. In 1786 Hendrik Lodewyk Bletterman, landdrost of Stellenbosch at the time, purchased the entire piece of land from him, but a serious dispute arose regarding the boundaries so that Bletterman had to have it surveyed again and had to get a new grant. Shortly after he sold it to Marthinus Beyleveld who had it divided into erven. In 1791 he sold the erf, on which Laetitia stands, to Johan Christiaan Heyneke who built a single-storeyed house on it probably during the same year. In 1803, after the serious fire which had destroyed so many stately old homes at Stellenbosch, Heyneke had the house rebuilt and in accordance with the prescribed precautionary measures, he converted it into a double-storeyed house with a fiat roof which was less likely to catch fire.
In 1810 the property came into the hands of Johannes Daniel Hugo. Laetitia became a home in the full sense of the word for, although it was often bought and sold by speculators, owners like Floris Johannes van Niekerk and Jacob Davidse, Snr., each lived there uninterruptedly for many years. However, since the beginning of this century it was used as a boarding-house and by the addition of an unsightly balcony on to which double doors opened, the original building was grossly disfigured.
In 1968 Laetitia was restored by Historical Homes of South Africa Ltd. Being representative of a specific style of architecture and situated in a prominent position at the north-western corner of the Braak, it enhances the importance and charm of this unique square at Stellenbosch.
Proclaimed 1970"
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