This house, and many others like it, can be found just a few kilometres from the Bo-Kaap area, in the quiet neighbourhood of Tamboerskloof. Situated between the city proper and Lion's Head, Tamboerskloof is filled with quaint Victorian houses, most of which were built between 1895 and 1905.
At that time the city centre simply couldn't house the large numbers of people arriving from Europe and the northern parts of South Africa, and so the farms on the slopes of Lion’s Head had to be sub-divided to make space for the exploding population.
