Commercial building for sale in the heart of Graaff-Reinet
This listed heritage building dates from the mid-18th century and has traditional sash windows and an attractive sandstone façade topped off with a neoclassical plaster cornice. The 245 m2 building is very centrally positioned in Church Street and retains many of its original features and fittings including the entrance passage stone flooring, brass door handles, cast iron door locks, panelled solid wood interior shutters two original fireplaces, and wide yellowwood windowsills, ceiling and floor-boards. Formerly a family homestead it features in the publication “Graaff-Reinet: An Album of Old Photographs” which was compiled by the well-known local historian, the late Teddy Whitlock. The typically Karoo style building has a flat corrugated-iron roof and comprises of a reception with Victorian fireplace, four offices, a walk-in safe, five storerooms, and an outside scullery and toilet block. The 437 m2 premises also has a rear entrance and off-street parking for 5 vehicles.
Graaff-Reinet is well known as being one of South Africa's oldest towns and is commonly referred to as "the heart of the Great Karoo". A couple of things you may not have known about Graaff-Reinet are that it is renowned for its Cape Dutch architecture and that an abundance of pre-dinosaur fossils has been found in the area.
A brief history of the area
Graaff-Reinet was founded in 1786 by governor...
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