Of later years this most interesting old farm has been called by a variety of unsuitable names, now it is satisfactory to say it has reverted to its original name which it has given the village which now surrounds it. It was a farm of 6O morgen, granted in 1759 to Gabriel Rossouw (sic). He must have built a house there, evidently consisting of three rooms in a row, facing west with the kitchen at the north end, the centre room was markedly wider then the others. Next two smaller rooms were added to the ends, making the house into a row of five. The centre gable is dated 1769, but was clearly built later. It has a heavily moulded pediment (though without pilasters) and the outline consists of curves with rather uncommon and somewhat awkward scrolls. The gable date may refer to the addition of the two end rooms.

The first transfer took place in 1818. This unusually long stretch of time is due to the fact that Rossouw's widow, Rachel Hugo, married a second husband, Jacobus Jordaan, who was much younger than herself, and in 1818 Jordaan transferred the farm to Pieter Jacobus de Villiers, whose initials appear on the back gable, dated 1823. This latter gable is pedimented holbol, its face decorated with pineapples in plaster. There can be no doubt that de Villiers enlarged the house to the size of its present H-shape; the middle bar of the H, while being of average width for a large house, is narrower than Rossouw's original main room. The house has passed through a 'late-H-shaped' plan shape. This must have been done before the very fine yellowwood doors, with stinkwood inlay and elaborate yellowwood architraves, were put in, for the line of the now missing crosswall comes right down on the side of two of the architraves. All five sections of the missing screens have now been recovered.

During the middle nineteenth century, the house was Victorianised. An attempt was made to restore it to the condition of soon after 1823, but this attempt was incomplete. The homestead, which retains its thatch, is flanked by modernised outbuildings. Opposite, though belonging to a different owner, is the farms old smithy, now converted into a dwelling. Alongside it is a cottage that was once the mill of the complex.