This beautiful property, set on 32.8 hectares of classic Fleurieu countryside and just 35 minutes from Adelaide is the perfect setting for a family, hobby or working farm, B&B tourism initiative or a retirement idyll.
Previously home to sheep and stud beef cattle, the property lends itself to small rural production, perhaps even a hobby vineyard. It features excellent infrastructure including, electrified fencing, steel cattle yard, workshop (Stables) and storage. Importantly, the property has ample water supplies including water from the Angas River, which meanders through the property and 4 dams over the land.
This idyllic property offers not one but two houses the original cottage extended to be a substantial home offering eight main rooms with a separate two-bedroom, free-standing cottage located several hundred metres from the main house. Featuring sweeping vistas it is perfect for accommodating a property manager, nanny, parents, or friends. With local approvals, it could provide cosy bed and breakfast in the heart of the increasingly popular Fleurieu, near the magnets of the Adelaide Hills, Southern Vales wine region, the Coorong and the ferry to Kangaroo Island.
The main house is a charming extension of the original stone cottage, substantial accommodation lovingly updated as a home many times over the years, always in sympathy with the original design. Having some renovations to the home, it features a modern kitchen with bench top, electric stove. Adjoining is the sunny breakfast room linking to the formal dining room with huge open fireplace, tall sash windows and French doors offering breathtaking vistas over the sweeping valley of the Angas river.
There are four large bedrooms, one with en-suite, second bathroom, sitting and living rooms, a large study and separate store and pantry. Stone walling lead the eye to ever more lovely vistas including, from the property’s highest point, a magnificent view all the way to the majestic Coorong.
Original colonial construction also includes Red Gum timber flooring, Blackwood uprights exposed in walls and stone fireplace surrounds. Evidence can still be clearly seen of original wattle-and-daub wattle sticks still evident in the plaster , battering of chimney faces, stone, pug and mortar and the thickness of the walls.
The separate, two-bedroom stone cottage features a shingled roof, pressed metal and gambrel ceilings and fibreboard wall panels, an open hearth fireplace, casement windows and French doors. It is set in a well-fenced garden surrounded by glorious trees and magnificent vistas.

HISTORY : Historic INVERCAULD originally purchased by one of our states founding fathers John Rankine during the 1840s
Invercauld’s Scottish namesake is a castle between Braemar and Crathie on Royal Deeside. The Macclesfield property is strongly associated with SAs pioneer Scottish settlers, the land on which it stands having been purchased by John Rankine, one of our States founding fathers.
This is a historic South Australian icon, a massive Gum tree-studded property it provides the perfect lifestyle idyll, with almost limitless possibilities, that will return all the care that can be lavished upon it. Invercauld will continue to suit owners who appreciate its historic and classic characteristics and the semi-rural lifestyle of the surrounding countryside and its classic hamlets, while still remaining 35 minutes from the city as part of a healthy outdoors lifestyle that can so easily take in the natural wonder of the Coorong, Victor Harbor and Fleurieu Peninsulas vineyards and coastal attractions.

Property Code: 565