5 Bedroom House in Whale Rock

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Five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a pool, a garden and a double garage, on 883 square metres, a two minute walk from the Robberg Bay Shopping Centre. That is the starting point. What you do from there is the real opportunity.

This is a substantial double storey in classic Cape vernacular, white plaster under corrugated iron with dormer windows and a steep pitched roof. Roughly 400 square metres under roof, solid and generous, with a footprint that is very difficult to replicate on a new build today. It is entirely liveable as it stands. It is also a house with obvious scope to be taken somewhere far better.

Upstairs there are two bedrooms and two bathrooms, along with a large private timber sun deck that opens to the mountains on one side and the bay and the Robberg Peninsula on the other. That upper deck is the single best thing about the house, and it is currently underused. Bring the main suite properly out onto it, open the internal walls to the view, and you have a top floor that competes with anything in the area.

Downstairs there are three bedrooms and two bathrooms, with genuine separation from the upper level. The living room is double volume with a wood burning stove and a full wall of stacking doors onto the covered entertainment terrace, the built in braai and the pool. The dining area seats ten and connects through to a large kitchen with granite tops, a peninsula and island, eye level double oven, and a separate scullery and laundry zone. The bones of the entertaining flow are already right. The finishes are where the value sits.

The pool courtyard is screened and private, with slate surrounds and mature planting on every side, and a stepped bank leads up to a second lawned garden under an established coral tree. Behind the double garage there is generous cobbled off street parking.

My professional view is straightforward. A buyer with a renovation budget and some vision has more upside here than on almost anything currently available in Robberg Bay, because the two things you cannot buy or build are already in place. The position and the structure. Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and internal layout are all solvable. Being able to walk to Checkers, the pharmacy, the coffee shops and the restaurants, and then close your gate on a private pool courtyard, is not.

Where walls can be removed or space added, that remains subject to plans and municipal approval, and I will gladly walk any serious buyer and their architect through the property so the possibilities can be assessed properly on site.

For the family that wants a large home in the best walkable position in Plett, and wants to put their own stamp on it rather than pay someone else''s renovation premium, this is the one to look at.

Contact Josh Steinberg, Home from Home Properties, to arrange your viewing.

R8 999 000 | 5 Bedrooms | 4 Bathrooms | Erf 883 m² | Home approximately 400 m² under roof