Good Hope

This house, named Good Hope, was designed and built in 1905 by the architect Spencer Carey Curtis for Petrus Cornelius van den Poel Hiddingh. It was constructed in a "Cape Dutch" style and is built of painted stucco with a pitched green slate roof. The roof has projecting eaves and tall stuccoed chimneys with wide cornices.

The house is two storeys and has a basement, with a flat dormer running through the gutter. It is seven bays wide, with the bays second from each end projecting and topped by coped Dutch gables above vestigial pilaster capitals. A curved Tuscan columned porch shelters the front entrance, which features a name plate above the door and leaded stained glass panels on either side. The windows are metal-framed; a Diocletian window is located to the right of the entrance, and a similar window on the garden front has been extended into a French window. Venetian windows are present in both projecting bays, both to the front and rear. Upper floors have smaller windows under the eaves, and small circular windows are found in the end bays. A wide, flat dormer is present on the east side, with eaves at a lower height. The rear elevation features a central Tuscan colonnade and a later 20th-century conservatory.

Inside, an oak staircase with splat balusters incorporates a gallery. Original oak panelled doors are found leading to the study and living room, along with architraves. The living room boasts a fireplace, while wood block floors, original skirting boards, door and window ironmongery, plinth blocks, and mantelpieces are all preserved.

The design of Good Hope was inspired by "Groote Schur" in Cape Town, designed by Herbert Baker for Cecil Rhodes in 1900, considered a prototype for the revival of the Cape Dutch style. Spencer Carey Curtis was in Cape Town during the construction of "Groote Schur", and his wife Edith painted it.