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After Hans Storm’s house was built in 1905 no other new houses were built in this area until
1931 – 26 years later. The difficult access and changing economic circumstances may have

been the main reasons.

Architect Lancelot Elsworth and The Rafters

The next person to build a house in the area was Captain Lancelot Andrew Elsworth in 1931.

(Fig. 3.50.) He was a prominent architect who, with his partner Percy Walgate, was
responsible for designing many fine buildings over an extended period. Elsworth had a long

association with Kalk Bay. His daughter Marigold was baptised at Holy Trinity, Kalk Bay in

1923. The child’s sponsors were Marjorie Lucy Mansergh, Helen Bisset and Charles Percival
Walgate.

Before building his house Elsworth was living in what became the end of Upper Quarterdeck
Road. In 1928 he wrote to Council saying he had bought the property on Lot 14 - Monifieth

(a town in Scotland near Dundee) near the top of Leighton Road. He had built a garage at the

rear of his house but the only road access was over the bottom of the graveyard from where
Quarterdeck Road ended at Lot 11. Permission was given to build a road over the graveyard,

the Council noting ‘The Municipal land is occupied by old graves, but there is no objection to

the strip being used …providing it is clearly understood that this strip will not become a road
and Council reserve the right to close it at their pleasure’. (Fig. 3.51.)

In 1931 Elsworth bought an erf (88703) at the corner of Upper Kimberley and Quarterdeck
Roads (43 Upper Quarterdeck Road) from Sydney Rose-Innes. The original Lot 10 had been

bought by John Harris at the 1904 auction along with the adjoining three erven. Harris was of

the well-known firm Cleghorn and Harris and he paid £577 for four lots. After he died, Lot
10 was sold to Rose-Innes for £200 in 1925. In 1941 Elsworth extended his property, buying

the adjoining erf (88702).