Located in a leafy, one way street in the 'golden mile' zone of Rondebosch, in the catchment area for top schools in Cape Town. This grand Victorian home boasts many of the original features.
(One such feature is the wooden sideboard in the lounge that was commissioned by the sellers grandfather in 1915 and made of teak timbers from the old Lutheran church which were cut in Java before the French revolution.)
This home was built at the turn of the century and this home has thick clay walls keeping the home cool in summer and warm in winter.
The property has been in the sellers family for generations. It has rich architectural marks of more than 100 years of family life.
Features of this home include:
- 5 bedrooms and a spacious lounge, all with large windows overlooking green vegetation
- Two and a half bathrooms
- Well maintained Oregon pine floors
- Wood burning fireplace in the front bedroom.
- A kitchen chimney which could be linked to a wood burning stove.
- The garden itself provides at least a cubic meter of wood a year.
- The house is cooled naturally by a breeze which sweeps
through the house in summer
- A forest garden of indigenous trees, White stinkwood, yellowwood and Cape chestnut
- A large borehole
- The Jammie bus to UCT is a mere 5 minutes away on foot.
Additional information from the seller on the charm and history of the property:
- There is an old well in the garden as it was apparently part of Lord Charles Somerset's vegetable garden.
- The owner spent 50 years of natural regenerative practice in the garden turning it into an indigenous forest. The owner is a twice winner of the Cape Times conservation medal for her work in Newlands forest and on the West Coast.
- The soil in the garden is rich with nutrients because of this 50 year practise and the sellers have found many vegetables self seeding because of this fertile soil.
- The garden is situated on an ecotone or transition between the Peninsula Shale Renosterveld and the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. This means that replanting of potential native vegetation should be a worthwhile project resulting in higher than average biodiversity.
- The name of the house these last 100 years was 'Eskdale', after a valley in the Lake District in England.
- The trumpet vine was planted next to the stoep when the seller's father was born.
- The sellers hope a new family will purchase this home and make many more happy memories.
