STONECREST

– one of the most beautifully unaltered Edwardian Arts and Crafts homes on the Westcliff Ridge in Johannesburg – is named after the carved stone crest high on its red brick façade. Set above two tall, gracefully arched windows, the crest features a sleek, noble-looking hound at its center. “One early owner, I was told, had 17 dogs,” notes Annabelle Desfontaines, who has lived there for the past 30-odd years and can still remember walking up the driveway for the first time as a young woman with her heart pounding. She has a couple of hounds who look very similar to the one on the crest, which adds a strange sense of timelessness to the way