Stretch's Court is an unique street restored in its entirety. These houses were the homes of emancipated slaves in the mid-nineteenth century. Currently, the buildings are utilised by the Drostdy Hotel for accommodation.

Captain Charles Lennox Stretch came to the Graaff-Reinet colony in 1819, during the fifth Frontier War. He was appointed as government land-surveyor. In 1855 he purchased land, divided them into plots and transferred to coloured labourers and emancipated slaves.

A century later the cottages was in despair and the Historical Homes acquired them and restored them.

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