21 Church Street - P.O. Box 106 - Aberdeen 6270
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Your Hosts: Lan & Mike
Tel: +27 (0)49 846 0612
Mobile: +27 (0)83 228 5331
Mobile: +27 (0)83 681 5346
Email: homestead@aberdeen-sa.co.za
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Bed and Breakfast
Comfy Accommodation
Televisions in Suite
Home Cooking
Personal Attention
Swimming Pool
Dinner on Request
Shops Nearby
The historical house was built in the early 1820's on the farm Brakkefontein.
Come and enjoy your stay at The Homestead in Aberdeen, where the present owners Lan & Michael will welcome you. The town offers a variety of attractions and is well known for its architectural diversity. We welcome singles, couples and families but unfortunately no pets are allowed.
The unpolluted Karoo air will ensure that you have a wonderful nights rest in one of our en-suite, single, double or family bedrooms. Enjoy a hearty Karoo style breakfast in the dining room or on the patio before exploring the architectural treasures of Aberdeen. Once you have finished wondering through the town or if you just feel like hanging around, enjoy our private garden, cool your hot feet in the pool or relax in the TV room.

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Mr & Mrs Jan Vorster		    History of Homestead House

The original owners, the Vorsters signed the title deed to the land with Lord Charles Somerset in 1817. The Vorsters named their farm 'Brakkefontein' and the house was built in the early 1820's. The out-buildings, which were the original construction, have romantically been called the coach rooms, the stables and the last room, the slave-quarters. All is conjecture. The doors all seem too low and narrow for stables. The bars of the slave quarters seem reasonably modern. The is no doubting the original thick stone-walls now covered in modern plaster (which peels of every few years), the large poplar and yellowwood beams holding up the reed ceilings with soil above for insulation and fire protection as being authentic. Presumably the original roofing was thatch?

The flooring in these outbuildings is Oregon pine laid directly on the soil (no wood rot, borer, etc., in 180 plus years). The original flooring of the slave-quarter room was cobbled-stones still to be seen today. The main house with its high-ceiling (for keeping cool) of Oregon pine stained red by ox-blood and floors, mainly of yellow wood with some Oregon pine, are probably dated to the late 1820's. The sash-windows, outer shutters etc., all the original to the house, are truly a piece of history. The house has been added onto in the same Karoo-style, namely the lounge, main bedroom, pool bedroom, extra bathrooms, etc., hence the concrete floors and carpeting. The farm of Brakkefontein was sold off to the church which sub-divided the land and sold off the plots - thus the town was established which was renamed Aberdeen in 1856 after the birthplace of Rev. Andrew Murray in Scotland.