This property is situated 18km from the Ixopo/Umzimkulu/Donnybrook intersection and 5km from the village of Highflats. This is country living at its best. The property includes a colonial house and cottage set in 1.99 hectares of landscaped garden with stunning views of the distant ‘berg.

The main house boosts a ± 324 m² and offers three massive bedrooms, main on suite, and with own sitting room attached. There are two large full modern bathrooms, a Bar and entertainment room, a large lounge and dining room, Study and a massive kitchen with separate scullery.

The house is surrounded by a large veranda offers Air conditioning and Jestmaster fireplace in the lounge and is fully alarmed.

The following additional features must be noted:

• 21 Strand Electric fence and gate
• Two open‐fronted garages
• One carport
• A Fern/orchid house with sprinkler system
• Large fishpond
• Strong borehole – approx. 2 000 litres/hour
• Domestic outbuildings: 2 bedrooms, kitchen & toilet

The homes and grounds are exceptionally well-maintained

Ixopo is a town situated on a tributary of the Mkhomazi River along the R56 highway in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and forms part of an important sugar farming, and forestry area. Ixopo was formerly known as Stuartstown, was laid out in 1878 and named after M Stuart, Resident Magistrate of the Ixopo district, who was killed at the Battle of Ingogo in 1881. Its name is derived from the Zulu onomatopoeic word, eXobo, describing the sound made as cattle squelch through mud.

Ixopo is most famously described by Alan Paton in the opening lines of Cry, The Beloved Country: "There is a lovely road which runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it."

The town houses two schools including a high school with a large proportion of boarding pupils who live in surrounding villages (such as Bulwer, Underberg, Creighton) which are too small to justify the erection and staffing of a high school. The Buddhist Retreat Centre, one of South Africa's major Buddhist centres is in Ixopo.
Until the mid-1980s, Ixopo was served by a railway station on the 610 mm (2 ft 0 in) narrow gauge Umzinto -
Donnybrook narrow gauge railway.

In 2000 the former branch of the Umzinto - Donnybrook railway from Ixopo to Umzinkulu (Madonela) was reconstructed by Patons Country Narrow Gauge Railway (PCNGR). As the line was partially lifted after closure in the 1980s, the track was in need of a complete rebuild.
PCNGR established its headquarters and northern terminus at Allwoodburn, formerly the livestock loading station for Ixopo, located on its eastern fringe. Gradually, a fleet of locomotives and rolling stock was acquired from various closed railways in Natal.
Patons Country Narrow Gauge Railway

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