Double Story, Semi Detached Troyeville Home For Sale

This double story, semi detached Troyeville home is conveniently located in a cul-de-sac, and is a stone's throw away from the busy intersection of Albertina Sisulu road and Apollonia street. Well over 100 years old, it is in need of renovation

Features: 2 entrance halls, 2 wooden staircases, 2 lounges, 2 dining rooms, 2 storage cupboards under the stairs, 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms upstairs, wooden & tiled floors, courtyard, burglar bars, 2 front doors with security gates, 2 small garden areas in the front, 2 roomed cottage on the hill at the rear, outside toilet, basin & shower, rear garden is completely covered with 4 shacks, cul-de-sac

TROYEVILLE

Troyeville is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), with the suburbs of New Doornfontein, Bertrams and Lorentzville to the north, Fairview to the south and Kensington to its east. The main road through the suburb is Albertina Sisulu, has its eastern end in the suburb and connects the CBD to Johannesburg's eastern suburbs and towns of the East Rand.
Troyeville was founded as the gold rush happened and people tried to build homes and churches away from the centre of mining. The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farm Doornfontein. When surveyed, not taken into account were the contours of the land and hence there are steep slopes in the suburb. Mohandas Gandhi lived in Troyeville from a period between 1904 and 1906, with the house still in existence at 11 Albermarle Street.