Village Estate on Idyllic Acreage with Mountains Views

Bordering the first historic (1819) wagon trail across the Franschhoek mountain, this spacious and versatile private Lifestyle Estate has seven unique erven situated in a landscaped agricultural setting with the intent to create a tranquil and agrestic character. Number six, situated on the Western border of La Demeure Estate, on the periphery of the Franschhoek Village, will have magnificent mountain views.

A rural Cape vernacular lifestyle theme will be created to be in sympathy with the surrounding wine farms. A central vineyard of 0,5 ha and 300 olive trees will be established and will be in full production within 2 to 5 years respectively. It is envisioned that about 1,5 tons of grapes will be harvested which could produce 1000 bottles of wine and also 1,5 tons of olives that could produce 200 litres of olive oil and 350kg of table olives.
Because the Estate essentially consists of an agricultural element, owners, therefore, accept that there is going to be activity as normally encountered on a working farm, especially during the harvesting season.

It is proposed that there will be no fencing between the erven, to create the sense of the dwellings situated on one farm. To create privacy between the dwellings, clusters of trees with edible nuts will be planted. Areas directly around the dwellings can be fenced off with “Clear View” fencing, and camouflaged with shrubs in situations where owners have pets. The property owners will be allowed to create gardens immediately around the dwellings, but the balance of the open areas will be restored to Swartland Alluvium Fynbos.

The only deviation from the all-indigenous landscaping will be the historically protected lane of Blue Gum trees along the “wagon trail” on the Northern side of the Estate. However, this lane of antique trees shelter the Estate from the main access road.
The road axis along this tree avenue ends up in a square with thick “werf” walls and beyond this “werf”/square is a formal farm dam which will serve as a retention dam and topped up with the borehole water and also serve as an irrigation dam. A bell tower has been positioned at the western end of the dam to strengthen the axis. The dam could be filled with Trout, Bass & Tilapia (Vlei kurper) and fly fishing could be an additional recreation facility for the owners.

To further enhance the agricultural ambiance, solid brick and mortar screen walls will be avoided as far as possible as it increases the hard elements, which has a negative impact on the proximity of the dwellings to one another. Timber trellis screens and Tanalith treated lath screens are encouraged for screening, which will aid with the integration of the dwellings and gardens.

In an attempt to respect the genius loci (spirit of place) of the Winelands the architecturally designed dwellings must conform to the traditional “letter of the alphabet” building types, which originated in the local vernacular of the Cape. Further architectural guidelines will apply to all buildings on the Estate and owners will be members of the Estate Home Owners Association.

Please note: sophisticated security features and control are a given.

Please note: price per erf includes VAT and no transfer duty is payable.