Hi,

I have decided for personal reasons that it is now time for me to release the reins of “MAT” McGregor Alternative Technology Centre, so I am selling Cobbit Cottage. As the project is so unique and special I am first going to market it through my circle of friends, asking them to spread the word for me.

We will be selling Cobbit Cottage, as featured in Country Life, Renaissance, Clean Slate “Cat” in Wales quarterly magazine, Biophile, Rapport, and many more. Pictures below.

Cobbits Cottage, Erf 873, 1000sqm McGregor, Western Cape, South Africa, house footprint 165sqm

I am asking R1,500.000

•  three bedrooms

•  one bathroom, 
•  open plan lounge, dinning area, and kitchen, indoors, 
•  plus an outdoor covered, wonderfully sheltered entertainment area with kitchen, and  amazing views over the seven layers of mountains.
•  an outdoor shower
•  easy access to the roof area for sundowners
•  It is beautifully cool in summer, and with a fireplace and indoor Dover Stove, warm in  winter
•  Cobbit's Cottage's garden is designed along permaculture lines.

•  Cobbit Cottage is a natural houses built of  mainly cob, but also using light straw clay  and wattle and daub, where fitting. 
  
•  We have used materials harvested within a 20km radius, plus recycled materials  where possible. No poisons, toxins, etc, have been used in the house so it is a  healthy houses. We have minimised the use of manufactured goods, by once again  using what we had outside our back door.
  
•  The house is powered by solar and gas and is totally off the grid without even an Escom cable. No load shedding here ever, in fact Cobbit's Cottage and the police station are often the only lights showing in McGregor.
  
•  We have built in many of the couches, bookcases and cupboards
  
•  There are  dry odourless compost toilets, hence the property is back to back rich lush  rejuvenated soil with abundant bird and wild life in the form of guinea fowls, hadeda's, hares  and tortoises, and other creatures that share our space.I have even had bat eared fox and buck on the property.
•  There are many varieties of fruit, nut and berry trees giving one something to eat all  year round. We also grow many of our own veggie needs.
•  The properties are on the edge of the village next to a proposed Nature Reserve, giving  the added advantage of no further development on the North West boundary.
  
•  the stars at night have to be seen to be believed.
  

For more information contact Jill Hogan - info@mat.org.za

Cobbit's Cottage, one of the first cob houses in South Africa,  90% carbon neutral and with it's abundant food garden, it for sale.

Harvest from my early morning walks to feed the chickens

Little Cottage has been sold.