The first member of the van Breda family came to the Cape in 1721 and over the years the family acquired large tracks of land. Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of The Cape, gave Michael van Breda a piece of land at Oudekraal in 1836 on which to build his own hunting lodge.
In 1929, Jack van Breda designed a handsome house, after the style of Sir Herbert Baker, with two big white frontal gables and a thatched roof. It took two years to build.
Van Breda sold the farm on 28 January 1954 to Sir Henry Philip Price, Chairman of a well-known London tailoring establishment for the price of GBP60 000. Price issued instructions for the homestead, and slightly more than one acre of ground (portion 3) was separated from the remainder of the estate.