Sites

The site is comprised of an old rectangular milking shed and a square water reservoir with rectangular trough on its western side. These structures are located on Portion 6 of the farm Milner Vale 295 owned by Mr. J.R. du Preez. The milking shed comprise three main sections namely a calf enclosure (western end of the structure), an open milking shed (centre) as well as small storeroom (eastern end). While the calf enclosure and milking shed have a slight forward slopping corrugated roof, the storeroom has a pitched corrugated iron roof. All the doors and window frames are of wood and the windows on the storeroom are small and rectangular in appearance. The entire structure has brick walls which had been plastered and painted. A small section of the actual brickwork was visible on the western end of the milking shed and this clearly indicated that the British Bond was used in building at least the milking shed. A water reservoir and trough are associated with the milking shed. The reservoir is square shaped with external buttresses for support whereas the drinking trough is rectangular. Both have stone foundations. The First Edition of the 3325DB Topographical Sheet that was surveyed in 1943 show a building as well as a water point in this locality. It is therefore quite clear that the buildings forming part of the site are for the most part at least 72 years old. It is of course likely for these buildings to be older than 72 years as well. This map also indicates another building roughly 70 m to the south of the shed which may have been the farmhouse at the time.