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UMLANDO-BUR02
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Post date: 23/07/2015
Directions:
From Durban drive south along N2. Take the Higginson highway (M1) and turn right and over the freeway. Continue along M1 up to the Shallcross T-Junction. Take Shallcross Rd, and continue up the hill. Turn left into Burlington Dr. At Y-junction turn left into Piet Retief Rd. Follow this road up to the bridge. Just before is a road to the Burlington Station, and the house is at the end of this road.
From Durban drive south along N2. Take the Higginson highway (M1) and turn right and over the freeway. Continue along M1 up to the Shallcross T-Junction. Take Shallcross Rd, and continue up the hill. Turn left into Burlington Dr. At Y-junction turn left into Piet Retief Rd. Follow this road up to the bridge. Just before is a road to the Burlington Station, and the house is at the end of this road.
BUR02 is a built structure that is probably older than 60 years. D. Whelan undertook a desktop analysis of the structure from photographs. The structure is a made from a wood and iron kit building that was most widely used from the late 19th to the 20th century. The wooden finial suggests a late Victorian date to the structure.
The likelihood of this structure being over 60 years old is great. This is firstly as the core of the structure is an example of wood-and-iron kit buildings, popular from the last decades of the nineteenth century, and well into the twentieth. Wood-and-iron buildings were a cheap and popular solution to immediate shelter, and popular amongst Indian and European settlers. HV Marsh in Pietermaritzburg was a purveyor of such structures, which were ordered out of a catalogue and then delivered in parts. Assistance in dating the building is lent by the existence of a finial. These were typical of the style, material and period, particularly of Late Victorian Architecture.