Farm For Sale in Cradock Rural, Cradock

Property description

Clifton is a beautiful farm situated on the Western side of Cradock area with the Great Fish River meandering through the Western side of the property. The banks of the river have an abundance of kikuyu and sweet Karoo grasses with plentiful Acacia Karoo thorn trees and shrubs.

Clifton is a unique property with plains, iron stone kopjes and good mixed Karoo veld.

Many different species of plains game roam the property which has a certified game fence. CAE

Approximately 700 animals ,18 species

Bird life is in abundance.

A once in a lifetime opportunity to buy a farm with plenty of water and outstanding quality water and soils .

Size 1568 ha veld with 52 ha of irrigation lands [in the process of being registered with Great Fish River Irrigation Board

Lands consists of Rescue grass and Lucerne in 33 camps with water troughs.



1620 ha total farm size: 1568 ha veld + 52 ha lands with existing water rights from the river.

ESKOM power: 1 x 100 KVA transformer and 1 small single-phase transformer at 2 river cottages and river suction pump.

BACK UP POWER - main house has 1 kw inverter with batteries for office, tv and some lights, and the Lodge and 1 of the cottages has solar lights.

WIFI - farm has its own private Wi-Fi tower, costs shared with a Neighbour. There is a Wi-Fi set up at main house and lodge and 2 of the cottages have their own separate Wi-Fi set up.


FARM with Irrigation Lands

2,4 m boundary fenced around whole perimeter of the farm (about 25 km boundary fence) , with valid certificate of adequate enclosure (CAE), AIS permit for lechwe and fallow deer and a WR number for cape buffalo. There are no buffalo on the farm

Irrigation and lands:

4 Pumps in 4 boreholes, total 75 m3 / hour, 1 pump on Eskom, 3 pumps on solar - Application from DWS is pending for use of these boreholes and for more water rights for irrigation, but the risk is on the buyer re this application.

2 River suction pumps: total 30 m3 / hour, 1 pump on Eskom, 1 on solar.

4 House dam pumps: total 65 m3 / hour - house dam is fed from the weir on the Great Fish River via furrows and pipes, via gravity.

Weir on Great Fish River, with furrows which fill dams: 2 small night dams near main house and 1 large dam which can flood irrigate 7 ha each time the dam is full.

Lucerne and grass pastures (9 ha is good lucerne, 43 ha is planted as mixed pasture with 70 % lucerne and 30 % grass)

52 ha irrigated as follows: 1.7 ha underground drip, 2 ha permasets, 48.3 ha draglines. Most lands have their own draglines, so there are about 270 sprayers on draglines.

Almost all the lands have their furrows and contours so the beds in the lands can also be flooded via dams and gravity.

70 % of Lands are fenced and have watering troughs for livestock.

The rest of the farm has no internal fences, except 1 small 9 ha veld camp for sheep and ALOEDALE 569 portion is fenced off with a 2.4 m fence (39 ha)

STOCK WATERS in the veld: 1 windmill, 2 solar borehole pumps.

BOREHOLES: Total on farm is 11 (2 are not equipped)

Approximately 700 animals, 18 species:

Game numbers are approximate as some of the species are not possible to be exact on due to their habits, eg. Thick bush which nyala and kudu hide in. Seller takes no responsibility for any discrepansies in game numbers.
We do not want the game numbers specified at all to avoid any misunderstanding - farm is sold with the game.

Buildings Included:

Main dwelling (excluding contents) - 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, tv room, sunroom, dining room, office, kitchen, scullery with laundry area. Includes reverse osmosis system. Rainwater tank outside back door.

3 cottages

Cottage 1 - 1 bedroom with bathroom

Cottage 2 - 1 bedroom with bathroom

Lodge cottage - not furnished - 2 bedrooms, lounge and kitchen area open plan with 1 bathroom.

3 rondavels - two are thatched third with metal roof and hessian under the roof inside. Unit has 3 rooms each with own bathroom. Units are interleading but can be locked for privacy.

Pool is situated next to rondavels and within 40m of the lodge rooms and lodge area.

1 large open plan lodge room and bathroom.

1 small lodge room - with bathroom

1 lodge - 1 lodge kitchen with pantry, 1 bar room, 2 curio shop rooms - . Reverse osmosis water system included.

1 laundry room

All buildings have electric geysers.


Outbuildings

7 staff cottages with Eskom electricity. Each cottage has a flush toilet and running water and staff area has its own septic tank system.

1 building with 4 Storerooms.

1 building as workshop and wood / storeroom.

2 sheds

parking verandahs x 2 (1 x 6 vehicle at workshop and 1 x 2 vehicle at lodge)

dip tank, foot rot foot bath, 4 old pig stys.

Salting rooms for trophies

1 x cement water storage reservoir 100 000L and water softener system (ion exchange)


SERVITUDE - the Neighbour has road access to his weir and a windmill he uses, and he maintains.