List of heritage sites of the Helderberg area

The congregation of Hottentots Holland was established in 1819, three years before the town of Somerset West came into being.
Type of site: Church
Current use: Church. The Church was consecrated in 1820 by the Rev. Meent Borcherds of Stellenbosch and was restored in 1863 and 1963. It is proclaimed a monument on account of its history and its remarkable architecture

One of these farms is Parel Vallei. Parel Vallei Road branches off the main road inside Som Architectural style: Cape Gabled, with significant layering.
Type of site: House.
Current use: Farm.

Malan’s daughter Catharina married Willem Morkel of Onverwacht, and their son Architectural style: Cape Gabled.
Type of site: Farmstead
Current use: Farm. Originally part of the farm Vergelegen that was granted to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1700, this portion was purchased in 1708 by Jacques Malan after Van der Stel's recall. The erection of the main buildings is attributed to members of the Ma

Type of site: Pass

Current use: Commercial.

It was granted to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel by the visiting Commissioner Wouter Valckenier.
Type of site: Tree

Current use: Railway station.

It was subdivided in 1830 and this portion came in the possession of the widow J.C whose husband
Type of site: Farmstead The original portion of this victorianised dwelling-house probably dates from the beginning of the nineteenth century. The house is situated on property which was originally granted to G. F. Prenger in 1779.

Current use: Park.

Type of site: Bridge.
Current use: Bridge.

In 1725 Cloetenberg was transferred to C. Louw and his Deed of Transfer contains the first recorded reference to a house on the property
Type of site: School
Previous use: House.
Current use: School. This property originally formed part of the farm Cloetenberg which was bought in 1709 by Catharina Cloete. The oldest section of the building complex dates from 1725 and the front gable of the homestead bears the date 1785.

The In 1893 it came into the possession of J. J. Hendriks, the nephew of D. Buissini of Erinvale.
Type of site: Farmstead

According to the ground plan the house was originally H—shaped but was turned into a rectangle and covered by a roof with a ridge in front and three parallel ridges behind it running from back to front The farm Knorhoek was granted to David Malan in 1717 and was slightly over six morgen in extent. It was transferred, along with De Fortuin, to his son Jacques Malan in 1790, and a year later to François Joubert, who built the house in 1795.
Type of site: Water Mill
Previous use: Mill. This imposing Cape Dutch manor-house together with the adjacent watermill forms a unique architectural complex.

Hereafter it served as parsonage until 1948.
Type of site: Pastorie
Previous use: Parsonage.
Current use: Restaurant.

The Police Station, originally a dwelling-house, probably dates from between 1835 Architectural style: Cape Gabled.
Type of site: Police Station.
Current use: Police station.

The colonnaded front facade has two extending rooms and stoepkamers on either side. These extending facades have low triangular pediments with a rather a Somerset West became an assistant Magistracy under Stellenbosch in 1892 with Mr. J. St. Vincent Cripps as first assistant magistrate. In 1898 a courthouse building which also housed the post office was completed. Somerset West. by this time having become Architectural style: Edwardian.
Type of site: Magistrates Office
Previous use: Residence.
Current use: Civic. This building was erected in 1898. It originally housed the post office, as well as the magistrate's court, after Somerset West was proclaimed an Assistant Magistracy in 1892.

A couple of kilo- metres further on and to the right the large group of buildings belonging to the farm Groot Paardevlei is situated.
Type of site: Farmstead

The front gable is identical to one of the outbuildings' at Spier, and is a good example of a gable with a purely holbol outline with the edge One of the early owners, Lambert Myburgh is likely to have built this house or enlarged an existing house in about 1745. This farm had first been granted in 1696 to Pieter de Vos; After various transfers, it became the property of Johannes Nicolaas Colyn
Type of site: Farmstead The earliest section of this H-shape dwelling- house with its impressive gables probably dates from the middle of the 18th century. The farmyard is bounded by a ring-wall and an interesting complex of outbuildings

The facade of the house which is one of the finest in the Cape has one full—width and one— half—width window on each side of the door: the windows are casements, small – only four rows

The roof is steeply sloping and the gables are therefore high. Beneath each end gable is an oriel window. Despite the fact that the plaster detail the oriel windows is not particular The high price of dynamite burdened the mining industry at the turn of the century and Rhodes suggested in 1898 that De Beers manufacture its own explosives. Early in 1900 the Stellenbosch Divisional Council granted De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd a provi
Type of site: House The gracious homestead was designed by the firm Baker and Masey and built in 1901 as residence for the factory manager of De Beers Cape Explosive Works. The first two general managers were William Quinan and Kenneth Quinan, after who the house was named f

He had built the house 3 years earlier. It has a simple holbol gable of the earliest type; together with that of Joostenburg it is one of the 2 earliest surviving dated gables – both were built
Type of site: Farm Complex The front gable is one of the two earliest dated gables at the Cape, dated 1756. Interesting historical features include exceptional camphor and yellowwood doors, and old ceiling boards and beams. The farm is situated within a historically important rura

The land. is still owned by the Methodist Church, while the cottages are held by the owners in perpetual lease hold. The cottages h
Type of site: House
Current use: Office. This cottage, designed in a simple vernacular style, is one of several built by freed slaves in the eighteen thirties.

Its setting at the entrance to a modern development contributes to the importance of having the character of this origin

Current use: Post office.

Current use: Police station.