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Yellowwood Cottage

Accommodation in Dargle, KwaZulu Natal

Description

YELLOWWOOD COTTAGE
Yellowwood Cottage is a bedsitter, bath en suite and kitchen cum dining room.
Room amenities: Fridge, Fireplace, Baby crib/cot/bed, Balcony, Fruitbasket/Flowers, Sofa, Bathroom-Private: Bathtub, Hair dryer - On request, Hot and Cold Water, Table Lamp, Coffee/Tea-making facilities, Cooking Facilities/Utensils, Iron/Ironing Board, Dining Area & Settings, Living Room/Sitting Area, Dressing table, Dressing Table/Vanity, Wardrobe, Electricity adaptors/Transformers, Ensuite, Braai facilities, tennis courts, walking in forest, birding and trout fishing by arrangement. Frozen foods to order on request. Rooms serviced daily.

Yellowwood Cottage only sleeps 2 and also in own garden with a background of +1000 year old Yellowwood trees. Magnificent view over farm yard with indigenous forest on the southern slopes.

Dargle Heritage Cottage built in 1848 by Thomas Fannin. As a geologist he came out from England with his family looking for coal and gold. He named his farm the Dargle after the Dargle River and valley in Ireland near Dublin. He built a sod house to live in whilst with his sons and started quarrying shale and building the present cottage. The last lion in the area was shot by him in his cattle kraalin the 1860s. The Yellowwood garden near the forest has yielded a valuable collection of iron age implements and bushmen artifacts, now in the Fort Nottingham museum.

Contact Details:
Reservations
Tel: 086 127 6237
Int. Tel: +27 51 924 0585

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Facilities

1 hectare of open gardens, stud herd of Hereford cattle, Percheron horse stud. Collection of indigenous and exotic trees of interest to tree enthusiasts ie Thomas Packenham has visited trees. Separate games room available with table tennis, darts, kids games in a loft.

Facilities:

  • Non-smoking rooms/floors
  • bird watching

Services:

  • Babysitting
  • Pets allowed

Recreation:

  • Fishing/Crabbing/etc.
  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
  • Bushwalking/Hiking/Trekking
  • Jogging/Walking

Languages Spoken:

  • English

Directions

50km from Pietermaritizburg on the Midlands Meander, 25km from Howick, 20km from Midmar Resort, 150km from Durban and about 400km from Johannesburg. Take the Curry's Post/Lions River off-ramp (exit 114) towards the west, at the t-junction turn right into the R103. Turn left at the first road towards Dargle. +/- 13 km on your right the is farm road to Dargle Cottages.