14.4 ha Smallholding in Grahamstown Central

Heart stopping Eastern Cape smallholding. 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 1800s as the third last Inn (known in those days as Masseys 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 1900s (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 employees cottage.

80m cow shed, with crush and loading ramp

Other offerings:

25000L filtered rainwater storage tanks plumbed through with an electric pressure pump rom 500m 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 employees cottage has small solar system, water tank and VIP toilet