The Old Gaol Building is a historic building built in 1824 in Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown,

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, and is the second-oldest building in Grahamstown. After the prison was closed in 1975, the building was renovated in 1984 and served as a backpackers' hostel.

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Defunct prisons in South Africa Buildings and structures in Makhanda, Eastern Cape Government buildings completed in 1824 19th-century architecture in South Africa {{Prison-stub