Smallholding for sale in Grahamstown Rural

I could use plenty of adjectives to describe this property. I would rather encourage you to look at the photos. Be sure to enjoy the “mood” photos taken by the owners at different times of the day and in different seasons. The setting is stunning.

The facts:

• Neighbouring Pumba Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape

• Historic property offering a unique, peaceful lifestyle 18km from Makhanda on the Lothians Rd.

• Bird list of 159, including 8 eagles.

• Built in the early 1800's as the third last Inn (known in those days as ‘Massey's Inn'), from the then Grahamstown

• Carefully maintained, the 300m 2 house boasts original yellow wood floors, ceilings, and mantlepieces, with oregon pine casements and doorframes, and stands strong on its stone foundations

• Totally off-grid with a newly installed solar system, with 25 000 litres of rainwater storage, and 10 000 litres of storage from a functioning borehole that can be used for irrigation, livestock, or tiding over the household water supply in dry periods.

The main house area offers the following:

• A cosy lounge with a Jetmaster fireplace, and a spacious, sunny dining room with a functioning built in wood-fired stove for cold winter evenings.

• A spacious kitchen with a separate pantry / storeroom and a separate laundry room.

• An east facing front verandah

• 3 large bedrooms (two of which could be sub-divided to make a five-bedroom home). One of the bedrooms is currently used as a large double office.

• 2 bathrooms

• 3 cellars

Behind the house one finds:

• An independent 140 m2 flat. It offers 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom and large lounge with open plan kitchen and east-facing veranda.

• A double garage with roll-down doors with extra storage space at the back, and a mechanical ‘pit'.

• A separate 50m2 workshop building with backup generator;

• A late 1800-early 1900's (deconsecrated) settler church building (still standing, but in need of renovation) (150m2), with a small settler-era graveyard.

• An old church school, now serving as an employee's cottage.

• 80m² cow shed, with crush and loading ramp

Other offerings:

• 25000L filtered rainwater storage tanks plumbed through with an electric pressure pump rom 500m² of roof catchment

• Borehole pump yielding 2500L per hour

• 5 KVA Generator

• 12 solar panels rated at 0,5 KVA each

• 10 Kw Kodak Lithium Inverter

• 3 Solar batteries each of 5.12 kWh, 51.2V capacity

• Access to single or 3-Phase Eskom power

• 2 Electric Geysers

• 2 Electric pumps

• Biodigester for the house, septic tank for the flat

• The current Wifi system works on LTE to the nearby MTN tower, Vodacom Wi-fi access also good.

• A small clay dam that fills up in wet periods

• Small river that occasionally runs (in wet weather), historically known as the ‘Droge (dry) Kariega' – feeding into the Kariega River; the borehole is by the river

• The employee's cottage has small solar system, water tank and VIP toilet