Roodepoort, Poortview
"There's a river on my stoep" overlooking the Botanical Gardens!
Best position, best buy!!
5 Bedroom main dwelling, 6 garages, flatlet, office block, indoor pool (to be renovated), gym, sauna, steam room, spacious patio overlooking garden and river, dams, boma, walking distance to the Botanical Gardens.
"Classic Charm! Serene atmosphere! Beauty!"
This very special property is one of a kind! The 2Ha river frontage property is dressed up with countless indigenous and numerous other trees! The park like flow of the garden towards the river includes dams, fish ponds, rolling lawns and beautiful views! Further features include:
a) Indoor pool which needs to be renovated (Solar panels to be renovated).
b) Gym area with steam room and sauna.
c) Study or office or library with solid wooden units throughout.
d) M.e.s with his and hers bathrooms and dressing rooms.
e) Spacious lounge area upstairs which is also used as cinema theatre.
f) Expansive entertainment area with roll-up canvasses.
g) 6 Garages, extra length and extra width.
h) 1 Bedroom flat.
i) Office block with separate entrance, 2 full bathrooms, reception area, numerous separate gardens suites, large open-plan garden suite, separate parking area for Staff.
j) Borehole with water tanks and pressure pumps.
k) Irrigation for the garden.
l) Numerous dams that can be utilised or filled up and grassed.
m) Bush veld boma overlooking the river.
n) Abundance of willow trees along the river where garden benches can be placed for total relaxation and meditation.
Life style in this area is exciting and fun filled. You have the best of two worlds with the pleasures of farm life on the one hand and the luxuries of city life and the other hand. Enjoy having horses, ducks, geese, chickens laying eggs daily, sheep, a cow or two for your daily milk, a pond with fish, a large store for your small tractor and farm equipment, owl boxes with owls, an aviary with bird song all day, an orchard filled with fruit trees, a large vegetable and herb garden. Your children can enjoy their own cricket pitch, tennis or squash court, olympic pool, kiddies play area and jungle gyms. Also build and equip your own private gym, sauna and steam bath. For the cherry on the top, design and build your own family chapel on these large well treed stands. The added benefit of living in this area is that the Walter Sisulu National Botanical garden is on your doorstep for daily walks, jogs, picnics, a quiet moment, a visit to the Witpoortjie waterfall, a lunch in the park, bird watching in the bird hide, enjoying the outside gym area, meeting friends, viewing the Black Eagles in flight or on their nest at the waterfall, taking the kids to the play area and teaching them to observe and enjoy nature with all its attributes.
For the more energetic there is the International Athletic stadium and Country Club with golf course as well as the Planet Fitness gym.
Restaurants in the Silver Star Casino include:- Billy G - Buffet, Calisto's - Portuguese, Col'Cacchio - Pizzeria, Publicity Bar & Grill, Silver Arrow Spur, Steak restaurant, Black Cherry Coffee Shop, Vigour & Verve Coffee Shop. Fast Foods - Mi-Vami Continental Delicacies, Noodle Bar - Chinese Cuisine, RAJ Express - Indian Cuisine, Steers - Flamed grilled Burgers 6 Cinemas and the world renowned Cradle of Humankind is twenty minutes away!
Restaurants & Take-Aways:
Hooters, Chicken & Pizza Perfect, Nandos, KFC, Pizza Del Forno, Rock Cod Fish & Grill, Chinese Kitchen, The Daily Coffee Cafe, Rock Cod Country Restaurant, Turn & Tender, Mugg & Bean, Rocco Mammas.
Shopping Centres:
Ruimsig Boulevard, Featherbrooke Village, Cradle Stone Mall, Clearwater Mall.
Medical & Hospitals:
Ruimsig Medical Centre, Life Pinehaven Hospital, Flora Hospital, Wilgeheuwel Hospital.
Schools in the area and within close proximity:
Maragon Private School, Eagle House School, King's School, Ruimsig Nursery School, Little Star Nursery School, Trinity House, Little Eagles, EduFun for Kids, Ruimsig Montessori, Muldersdrift Primary, Roodekrans Primary, Ridgevale Primary, Swim Jozi.
University: Monash International University.