R5,870,000 | 4 Bedroom Freehold For Sale in Houghton Estate

What a joy to behold! This gracious heritage home, built in the early 1930's on a 2000 square meter stand, is the perfect home for a family who wants to escape the city into a haven of leafy tranquility, and yet be close to the excellent schools, universities and business districts in the area. This home has been cleverly brought up to date with eclectic twists and gorgeous style.

It's been restored and renovated by a couple who love fine things, make fine things, cook and entertain...who have their own veggie garden and fruit trees, and who created a natural pool from a chlorine one, just for themselves, as they landscaped the garden.

The garden has its own brook that makes its way through the luscious plants in front of the patio, and it offers up little rock pools and carefully selected trees that have their names attached to them...It is a unique property, quiet, calm, and very, very special.

There are a number of storage spaces and work rooms for creative endeavors at the back of the house, and staff rooms, if that's a priority - and the lettable flatlet is tucked away and private.

So if you love to be close to nature and enjoy the peace that can be found in a wilder garden, if your idea of leisure is to sit and read by the fire or sit outdoors in the gloaming and talk to good friends while enjoying good music... if you want a garden that inspires, and offers little vistas of delight at all times of the day and night, then you best come and see this property.

It’s a breath of fresh air, a drink of cool water, a heart & a hearth of great warmth and depth…
Only very few people understand the value there is in a home that is both a gentle and safe retreat from the world and an energetically welcoming environment for friends and family you love to entertain and communicate with.

This is a rich and nurturing home and a gorgeous garden, secreted away from the hustle, but at the very centre of Houghton and its myriad advantages and adjacent offerings.

The perfectly practical offering is set out below, and you can see it’s impressive, but the whole is so much more…

BASICS
• 3 bedrooms (all en suite / crema marfil marble bathrooms)
• 4th bedroom / study (with Jack & Jill bathroom)
• Formal lounge
• Open plan kitchen / dining / TV lounge
• Scullery for appliances and second fridge
• Home Office / Library
• 3 x fireplaces (2 x original/traditional, 1 x modern oven)
• Original 1935 pressed ceilings, doors & handles
• Excellent security > 9 cameras, 12 external and 12 internal beams
• 2366 sqm comprised of 2000sqm stand plus 366sqm shared driveway / panhandle

SPECIAL FEATURES

Outbuildings
• 1-bed Cottage > R8950 monthly income, plus prepaid water & lights paid by tenant
• Outside Workshop / Art Studio
• Staff room with kitchen and bathroom
• Separate gardeners’ / contractors’ toilet

Water and Electricity Efficiency
• 6kWp Solar Plant, 8kW Sunsynk hybrid Inverter, plus 10.4kWh Blue Nova lithium battery backup for loadshedding (wired into
separate ‘essentials’ DB)
• Strong borehole (shared with neighbour, secured in title deed)
• 2200 litre municipal water buffer tank with booster pump, plumbed into house
• 2200 litre rain collection tank – for watering garden
• Excellent Insulation
o Windows and doors double-glazed
o Spunsulation insulation under roof tiles (industrial silver foil)
o 135mm eco-insulation in ceiling

Nature Garden
• Large garden with established trees > around 90% indigenous.
• Swimming pond + 2 wooden decks
• Rock stream and pond
• Automated Rainbird sprinkler system with rain sensor > runs off borehole
• Courtyard vegetable garden with automatic irrigation. Plus water feature/fountain
• Tree labels for ease of identification
• Greenhouse for propagating seedlings

Entertaining
• Sliding kitchen windows open to outside patio – with counter, drinks cupboards, etc
• Second outside patio next to stream
• Large circular built-in braai pit