"Highlands Farm" With Implements, Movables & Livestock - Mid

ONLINE BIDDING OPENS: 12:00 ON TUESDAY, 15 APRIL 2025

ONLINE BIDDING CLOSES: 12:00 ON THURSDAY, 17 APRIL 2025

PROPERTY ADDRESS: HIGHLANDS FARM, MIDLANDS MEANDER, KZN, PORTIONS 58 & 60 FARM MIDDEL BOSCH 897 FT D17, DARGLE VALLEY - JOINTLY ± 104 HA

PRIME FARMING & LIFESTYLE AREA, SITUATED ON THE MIDLANDS MEANDER OF THE DARGLE / LIONS RIVER AREA!!

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE:
These picturesque properties are situated on top of the hill with magnificent views & is nestled in a secluded corner of the valley.
This is what dreams are made off, don’t miss out!

PROPERTY 1: PORTION 58 OF FARM MIDDEL BOSCH 897.

Extent: ± 67 ha

Improvements: (± 1 628m²)

• Large dwelling: (± 425m²)
• 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, open plan dining area and kitchen, 2 lounges, 3 fireplaces and wrap-around verandah (± 195m²)
• Storerooms (± 107m²), timber floored loft & lean-to used as covered parking.
• Bin area- enclosed building
• 3 garages, workshops, stores and stables (± 359m²) & attached lean-to used as covered open-sided storage
• Staff accommodation: 10 x staff rooms & ablution facilities (± 167m²) with attached covered verandah (± 22m²)
• Chicken shed (± 50m²)
• Homestead perimeter: ± 3 km of 19-strand electric fencing
• Farm and grazing camps: 5-strand barbed wire fencing.
• Pole and rail cattle handling facility
• Well kept garden, swimming pool and tennis court

Land use:

• 3,05 ha established sprinkler irrigation pastures (Kikuyu)
• 12,86 ha established irrigable pastures (Kikuyu)
• 4,09 ha irrigable haylands
• 1,93 ha dry haylands
• 36,65 ha veld grazing (plains)
• 1,2897 ha scrub timber
• 4,0054 ha comprising farmyard, roads, wasteland, wetlands and irrigation dam

Water & license: (Licence 11/U20C/A/11632)

• Spring licensed for supply of water for a potential bottling plant (40 000m³/a - Industrial Use).
• Registered borehole for domestic purposes, schedule 1 use (1800m³/a)
• 20 ha licensed irrigation water allocation from a dam on the property (28 000m³/a).
• Irrigation dam for irrigation purposes and livestock watering.

PROPERTY 2: PORTION 60 OF FARM MIDDEL BOSCH 897

Extent: ± 37 ha

Land use:

• 0,42 ha dragline irrigated pastures (Kikuyu)
• 9,58 ha irrigable pastures (Kikuyu)
• 3,81 ha dry land pastures (Kikuyu)
• 17,08 veld grazing
• 4 ha scrub timber
• 1,2623 ha comprising wasteland, bush, roads and irrigation dam

Water & license:(Licence 11/U20C/A/11632)

• Irrigation dam for irrigation purposes and livestock watering. (14 610 m³/a)
• 10 ha licensed irrigation water allocation from a dam on the property (24 600m³/a).

PROPERTY 1 & 2 OFFERED SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY

MOVABLE ASSETS, IMPLEMENTS, CATTLE & SHEEP (In various lots)