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History: This farm was a deduction from Patrysvallei,. q.v., of over eight morgen, made in 1805 by Sybrand Coen Vermeulen in favour in favour of Joachim Christoffel Esterhuysen. Esterhuysen was married to Debora Retief the sister of Piet Retief, who soon afterwards acquired the farm Krome Rhee, q.v., nearby.
The cellar is dated 1804 and was probably built by Esterhuysen; obviously the actual transaction must have been completed before the transfer was signed. Its gable is a late example of the holbol style; at this date It was already rather out of fashion.
Visual Description: The house is H—shaped, and has six most elaborate gables. The back and front gables are almost identical;: they have four pilasters rising from ground—level upward, equally spaced, and a split pediment with an urn in between; the inner pilasters are surmounted, by urns the outer ones by drums (flow converted into wheels).. The front gable is dated l8l2 The four end have wings at their bases, and other wings flanking small pediments.
The windows and doors of both facade retain their original, segmental-topped frames; the actual windows and doors are mid—I9th century, at which time the side-courts were filled in -. they have similar windows. (The windows were returned to small pane by the owner, Mr Peel in 1996. The inside of the house has not been altered much. There is a stoep that runs right round the house.
The 1804 wine described above forms one side of a small forecourt; a second outbuilding forms the other side, while the fourth side is formed by a werf wall with a gate on the axis of the house and of the werf itself.
There is a storey the house has been reversed. Apart from the fact that its facades are almost identical, there is nothing to support this idea; and the present down-the-slope aspect as well as the position of the kitchen are strongly against it. The roof which had been of iron with a raised eaves level has been returned to thatch.
Weltevreden, district Stellenbosch, was declared a national monument in August
1975.
(Source: Fransen & Cook : The Old Houses of the Cape, pp.. 80—81)"
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