A stone cottage on a working wheat farm
Klipkop sits on the Rietkuil werf outside Napier — self check-in, power that stays on, and the dam a twenty-minute walk from the stoep.
Check datesSelf check-in
The key is in the box on the stoep wall and the code comes with your confirmation. Arrive at ten at night if that suits you — nobody needs to meet you at the gate.
Power that stays on
Panels on the shed roof, a 10kWh battery and a generator behind it. The lights in this cottage have not gone off during load-shedding since we put it in.
Uncapped fibre
Fibre to the farmhouse and a mesh point in the lounge. Guests run video calls from the kitchen table all week without dropping one.
A working farm
Wheat, canola and about nine hundred merinos. Lambing is in May and harvest is in November, and you are welcome to walk out with Pieter on either.
Walks from the door
Three routes are marked off the stoep: an hour up the koppie, half a morning to the dam, and the full fence line if you leave early.
Dogs welcome
Two dogs, no extra charge, as long as they leave the sheep alone. There is a shaded run beside the cottage and a tap low enough to fill a bowl.
The cottage, room by room
From the visitors' book
We booked two nights and changed it to five on the second morning. It is the stoep that does it — you sit down at four and there goes your evening.
I worked the whole week from the kitchen table and did not drop a single call, which is more than I manage at home in Rondebosch.
Our old staffie found the patch of sun by the door on the first afternoon and barely moved after that. First place we have taken him where nobody minded.
Pieter put the children on the harvester for half an hour. They have told that story to everyone they know since November.
A walk up the koppie, filmed in July
What is in the cottage
- Two bedrooms — one queen, two singles
- One bathroom, bath with a shower over it
- Gas hob, electric oven, full-size fridge
- Wood stove in the lounge, wood in the box
- Washing machine and a line in the sun
- Uncapped fibre with a mesh point in the lounge
- Inverter, battery and a backup generator
- Braai on the stoep, grid and tongs in the drawer
- Milk, eggs, butter and farm bread on arrival
- Linen, towels and a cot if you ask
- Shaded parking under the pepper tree
- No television — the radio and a shelf of books
Midweek is usually open
R1 450 a night for two, two nights minimum, dogs free. Send me the dates and I will come back to you the same evening.
Send an enquiryEnquire about dates
Four things and I can answer you properly — I am on the farm most days.