Project Description
Specialist restoration works at Bertram House in Cape Town. This is the only surviving red brick Georgian style house in Cape Town, city bowl, and was built during the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign.
The works included specialist plaster repairs to the building’s main façade and boundary walls. After the repairs were carried out, limewash coatings were applied, all in compliance with the intricate heritage specifications for the project. Interestingly, the wall foundations were found to have been built with shale stone, mined in the Strand Street Quarry, in the Bo Kaap.
The building looks renewed and blends in nicely with the other buildings that Iziko Museums has recently had restored in the area. We are happy to see and be part of heritage buildings being maintained and restored in and around Cape Town.
