For sale: Fully-developed life-style farm with stables, sheep-farming infrastructure. Currently operated as a sheep farming business (the business and farming equipment are excluded from the sale)
Price: R6,995m
Size: 12.49 ha
Area: Malmesbury Outlaying, Swartland Municipality, Western Cape
Convenient location, appr. 17 km to the new Malmesbury Mall and the Melkbosstrand. Appr 45 km to Cape Town; 11 km to Philadelphia village; 20 km to Durbanville. Tarred-road frontage with privacy provided by the trees, with easy access to N7.
Safe, very private and secure position. Well maintained stock-proof fences around the entire perimeter. Access-controlled entrance gate.
Main dwelling: This beautiful north-facing farmhouse, with a wraparound stoep is set amidst the natural gum tree
amphitheatre, providing privacy and shelter from the South Easter. The house has 3 x bedrooms, 3 x bathrooms and a study (that doubles up as 4th bedroom). 2 x bedrooms have laminated flooring and ample BiCs. The large master bedroom with an en-suite and walk- in dressing room is tiled throughout. The well-maintained wooden doors and windows give this house that farm style quality. A new addition to this house is a fully tiled study that leads from the dining area and has its own bathroom. It is tiled throughout.
Large (13 m x 7 m) high-ceiling lounge and dining room which boasts a cast iron fireplace to warm the whole house during the cold winter months. The large granite top kitchen with a separate island is open plan to the dining area and lounge and is tiled throughout. There is a large pantry cupboard, and a separate scullery leading to the outside courtyard and small storeroom.
French doors lead from the lounge to the large wrap-around stoep and manicured lawns and garden, with a water feature/duck pond. Leading from the entertainment area and outdoor built-in braai, and nestled off the stoep and in view from the bedrooms is the raised swimming pool (4 m x 6 m x 1,8 m deep),
Wooden French doors lead from the dining room onto the paved driveway and a 5-berth carport. Adjoining the carport is another large storeroom, which could be converted to a cottage.
Dwellings 2 & 3: 2 x compact brick cottages (1 x incomplete and consisting of 1 x room) + one 2-roomed with en-suite bathroom open plan kitchen and lounge. There is also a separate staff bathroom (shower/loo).
Outbuildings: Stable block - 4 x stables with electricity, plus a feed room and tack room. Adjoining the stables is another carport currently housing the tractor and implements. There is a large (12 x 7m) shed used to store oat hay lucerne and straw.
Behind the carports lie the well-designed sheep farming infrastructure, with under roof feed troughs and automatic water feeders. It is currently used as a sheep feedlot which can accommodate 1,000/1,200 lambs, with dog and jackal proof fencing and protected by Kwe Beams. There are undercover lambing sheds, undercover feed sheds and well-maintained paddocks and loading zones (sheep and equipment not included). This can easily be converted for equestrian use or even rental housing as there is water and electricity supply.
The homestead is securely fenced with bonox fencing.
3 phase Eskom.
Fencing: Perimeter fencing stock proof. Sheep feedlot jackal proof and protected by Kwe Beams. Dwellings and stables contained within bonox fencing.
Well maintained horse paddocks partly under irrigation.
Strong borehole min 5,000 l/h which has never dried up even in the worst drought. Rainwater harvesting off all the large roofs (house, shed, stables). Total storage capacity of 22,000 l.
There are 2 x earth dams on the property that are filled from the winter rains. The dam visible from the house is topped up from the borehole during the dry summer months. It attracts a plethora of bird life (wild geese, blessed ibis, hadedas, hawks, cranes, guinea fowl, hoopoes). The 2nd dam is a short walk from the main dwelling and is filled from the winter rain flowing stream that runs through the property.
Summary:
Stables x 4- electricity and feed room.
Earth dams x 2.
Borehole x 1
Carports x 6
Storerooms x 3
Sheds x 2 (one fully enclosed; other 3 sided)
Feedlot and infrastructure for 1,000/1,200 lambs
Eskom 3 phase.
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