Sites

The site comprises an old rectangular shed complex located to the north of the farmhouse on a property that used to be known as Ramona. The structure includes a meat processing room, milking shed, rooms, storage room, garage and reservoir and is located on Portion 18 of the farm Platterug 303 that is owned by Mr Broadbend. The south-eastern end of the structure has a room of which the walls were built in such a way that ventilation holes are created throughout. The room has an external entrance as well as an entrance into the room to the back. All doors and windows of this room are of wood. The building on the north-eastern side of the structure and adjoining the cool room is the only part of the entire structure with a pitched corrugated roof. It has a small loft window on the side, possibly for ventilation in the attic and two wooden windows as well as a wooden door, with three steps leading to the door. The building also has a stone foundation. A door provides access between this room and the adjoining milking shed. The old milking shed is the largest single component of the entire structure and consists of fourteen stalls. An old installed water basin and tap used to wash hands and equipment during the milking process is still visible. A number of rooms are located to the west of the cool room on the southern side of the structure. These rooms are not interlinked and the only access to them is through separate doors. Both rooms have recessed walling. Next to the second room but clearly added at a later stage is a storage room and a garage, as a window from the second room looks into the storage room. The storage room and garage were also built using different bricks, further
indicating that they were erected at a later stage. With the exception of the garage and storage room on the south-western end of the structure, all the walls are of bricks laid in the British Bond style.