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Inscription: fanlight in lounge scratched with a diamond - 1865 PAR Otto; stable - 1869AD PAR Otto
Inscription: fanlight in lounge scratched with a diamond - 1865 PAR Otto; stable - 1869AD PAR Otto
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THE Balmoral farmhouse and stables, together with ten metres of surrounding land, situate on the Remainder of the farm Balmoral 13347, in the County of Umvoti, Province of Natal.
THE Balmoral farmhouse and stables, together with ten metres of surrounding land, situate on the Remainder of the farm Balmoral 13347, in the County of Umvoti, Province of Natal.
Archive Import: Significance: This farmhouse is typical of its period in Natal and prossesses some outstanding features. Founder of the farm was PAR Otto, a land baron of great importance and influence in Natal in the 19th Century who made a considerable contribution to agriculture.
History: Built in 1865 by Petrus Albertus Lyno Otto who trekked from Caledon, Cape in 1839. He was a land baron of great importance and influence in Natal in the 19th century and made a contribution to agriculture in Natal.
Visual Description: farmhouse with thick shale walls; 'leg 'o mutton' gable with entrance to loft.
Interior: local timber used extensively-sneezewood floors and window surrounds, yellowwood ceilings and windowsills:flagstones in passage (seam in nearby river): two open heaths in kitchen with large beam over both- Dutch oven. Stable loft floor cobbled.
Alterartions: addition of bedroom wing: cementing over flagstones in kitchen: original thatch roof replaced by corrugated iron: lounge divided into two rooms.
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Site Features: oak trees, grown from acorns, and a vine, brought from the Cape c1839, which are of horticultural significance.
Condition: fair
Construction Date: 1865 (house) 1870c (stables)
Materials: coursed uncut stone : corrugated iron
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