The Old Timber Shed – Plettenberg Bay

The Old Timber Shed – Plettenberg Bay

The Timber Shed’s history, dating back to when the Timber Shed was built 238 years ago – 1786 when the Dutch East India Company contracted with Johann Jacob Jerling to build the Timber Shed in Meeding Street to be used for the stacking and storing of large logs of timber which were to be shipped to the Cape for building the Castle in Cape Town.

More than 200 years later, to introduce the two Jerling brothers onto our Committee of the VPHS, really made this really momentous occasion complete, and we celebrated the moment with two bottles of chilled bubbly and croissants supplied by the Old Rectory. Having the ExCo meeting in this place made this a special occasion: sitting under a huge umbrella under the African sky on a gloriously sunny day in the courtyard of the Old Rectory, where, in 1869 the Reverend Edwin Gibbs, the curate of St Peter’s Church lived in the building that was to become known The Rectory and, in time, The Old Rectory Hotel & Spa!