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COTTAGE for SALE
FRESH AIR, FYNBOS, 
SECURITY and PRIVACY in a
GROTTO BAY
“TECHNO COTTAGE”
Two-story home in Grotto Bay,
(a Private Nature Reserve)
60 km from Cape Town and
30 km from Melkbosstrand,
on the R27.
NAME
Currently called MANGUS COTTAGE. (Mangus is the original Indic  spelling for “mongoose”. There are a number of families of Cape Grey mongooses who live in the surrounding fynbos and appear now and then for our viewing pleasure.)
BASICS
• House built EARLY 1995.
• Extra rooms added upstairs and down 2001.
• Erf size 775 sqm.
UTILITIES
• Water, from a borehole near the Reserve, is free up to 1 000 litre per day per household.
• Electricity payment to ESCOM is at the indoor meter and can be paid by buying with credit card on Internet and then entering code on meter
LEVIES
• Current monthly Levy to Grotto Bay Homeowners Association about R700.00
• Monthly Rates to Malmesbury Municipality. about R200.00.
DOWNSTAIRS ROOMS (Total 80 sqm)
• Large sitting room adjoining open plan kitchen. Windows and doors open to North, East and West.
• Guest bedroom, with adjoining shower and toilet.
• Library with complete wooden shelving. This room can be converted to a second garage as it adjoins the current garage.
DOWNSTAIRS ANCILLARY ROOMS
• Garage with wooden shelving (30 sqm)
• Laundry with adjoining strong/room cellar (13 sqm)
• Porch glassed in with built-in braai fireplace. (4 sqm)
UPSTAIRS LOFT ROOMS (110 sqm)
• Main Bedroom.
 • End Room. Glass door faces south with view of Table Mountain. West windows view sunsets. Room well supplied with electric plug points, DSTV input, telephone and ADSL input. Ideal as study or home-based computer work room.
• Adjoining kitchenette with shower cubicle.
• Centre room, has fireplace and two loft west windows. Can be converted into two separate rooms or left open plan.
• Bathroom and toilet.
GARDEN
• Garden has been kept as natural as possible blending in with the surrounding fynbos. 
• Large lawn in front enables easy visitor car parking and turning.
• Occasional viewing of local steenbok, duiker, and ostrich from top windows. Mongooses and tortoises are regularly seen in garden. Assortment of birds in season.
• Families of Cape Francolin are foraging year-round.
• Effluent is treated in a septic tank.
• Well point is connected to automatic garden sprinkler system
SECURITY
• Access to Reserve is through one gate. This is manned during week days and there is Mercon system to allow you to admit your visitors when they phone from the gate.
• Residents voluntarily take turns to drive around the Reserve in the evening and report any strange occurrences.
OUTSIDE GREEN ENERGY INSTALLATIONS
1. “GROOT SOLLY”. Solar power system feeding 12 volt storage batteries. Converter changes power to normal 220 volt to drive computers and Herb Hut pumps. This power source is used mainly as an emergency back-up during power outages.
2. HERB HUT Automatic vertigation sprays on hip-high garden troughs. Hydroponics section as well. Area is protected from birds. Herbs and veges grown for the kitchen. Connected to Groot Solly so pumps work even during power outages.
3. “DIE WURMPIES” Three colonies of red worms to make finings from kitchen vegetable waste. This means that no smelly vegetable waste needs to be put into the black bags ready for the communal tip. The finings from the worms are an ideal base for small plants and for fertiliser in the Herb Hut.
4. “NAT SOLLY” A solar water purification system delivering distilled water. Needs good sunlight so more produced in summer than winter.
5. LIQUID FERTILISER. Two plastic drums for making fertiliser.
6. “KLEIN SOLLY” A small solar oven for cooking stews etc.
7. RAINWATER COLLECTION. Two 1 500 litre plastic green tanks to collect and store rainwater for use during dry season.
8. PRIVATE, outside, un-obstructed view of the fynbos. This East-facing view is sheltered from the prevalent South-Easterly wind and the heat of the setting sun. Ideal as a cool summer retreat. No neighbours overlook this area.
INSIDE FACILITIES INSTALLED
1. “CLAYTON” A small wood-burning Danish Morsø stove in the downstairs living room which heats the whole cottage in winter. Burns Black Wattle and Rooikrans so helping to reduce the species. Ideal for winter stews and soup.
2. SURGE SUPPRESSOR Electrical charge spike suppressor installed in main electrical board.
3. LIBRARY One downstairs dedicated room, to display over 4 000 books on fitted wooden shelving.
4. “THE HUB” Upstairs loft room, with Table Mountain and sea view, fitted with many electrical plug points and telephone connections, including the DSL line. Ideal as a study or computer room. East facing kitchenette attached.
5. CELLAR. Windowless small room ideal for storing wine and important small goods. Has small safe attached to wall.
6. SUNSCREEN BLINDS Fitted roller blinds on four West facing upstairs rooms, to cut out heat and reduce glare. Also fitted with black roller blinds for full privacy.
7. DSTV Dish installed.
8. BURGLAR ALARM system installed with extra warning signal if anyone walking near property.
MANGUS COTTAGE is at the top Eastern end of the Reserve when facing the sea in the West.
• What the cottage looses in views of the surf it gains in privacy
• To walk down to the beach takes about ten minutes.
Information updated 13 May 2009
e-mail create@iafrica.com
Just phone 022 492 2979. We'll talk.
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