Accommodation Hawksmoor House | Stellenbosch Farms Central | South Africa | Guest House

Hawksmoor House is a Cape Dutch country retreat located on a 220- hectare wine farm, Matjieskuil, near Stellenbosch in the Cape Winelands. Meticulously restored and beautifully decorated with exquisite antiques, it occupies a stunning location amidst vineyards overlooking Table Mountain, and enjoys spectacular sunsets.

Our friendly and cheerful staff stay discreetly in the background, providing you with the feeling that you have the entire place to yourself. Hawksmoor House offers a totally unspoilt, unpolished and authentic country home experience for those who need some well-deserved rest. It is the perfect place to unwind.

If you love dirt roads, sunsets, wine by candlelight, an owl outside your window, and don't mind sharing the pool with the occasional disoriented frog, or getting a paw print of our overzealous dogs on your trousers, you have found your place!

We are proud of our recently restored, historic wine cellar and wine tasting room and while the production levels do not justify onsite wine production quite yet, we have established relationships with well-known vineyards nearby.

Our wines, marketed as "Hawksmoor at Matjieskuil", are made solely from grapes grown and harvested at Matjieskuil Farm. They include a crisp Chenin Blanc from 25-year-old bush vines, and a range of Pinotage for every palate. 2008 saw our first harvest from our new block of Mourvèdre. The oaked red will be released shortly, followed by the long-awaited 2007 Bandol-style Rosé.


Under the Waarburg label, a Rhone-style red blend and an oaked Chenin Blanc are also available. The Waarburg vines are grown on our neighbouring vineyard. At the Die Laaitjie cellar, located on our sister farm near Robertson, wine maker John Hargreaves, assisted by Brad Duggett, has produced limited-release oaked Pinotage and Shiraz.

We would love to organise your special celebration, birthday party, family reunion, or simply a lavish manor house dinner.

Weddings
To keep weddings at Hawksmoor House truly special, we only host one wedding per month and the entire guest house including 7 bedrooms (sleeping a maximum of 15 guests) needs to be hired for 2 nights (3 nights if a marquee needs to be set up) at R35,000 and R50,000 respectively. Our beautiful wine cellar seats 80 guests comfortably.

We require that the exclusive wedding co-ordination team of Wedding Concepts be retained to arrange the celebrations. Wedding Concepts are very familiar with Hawksmoor House.

Hawksmoor Antiques reflects the passion and business of Simon Olding, who has an antique shop in Cape Town. A large selection of European and Cape furniture is on display there at:

Hawksmoor Antiques
125 Waterkant Street
De Waterkant
Cape Town
Phone: +27 21 418 0687

At Hawksmoor House we have retained a small yet superb collection of furniture and artwork sourced by Hawksmoor Antiques, that allows guests and visitors to see the items in appropriate settings.

Hawksmoor Antiques has also created a unique scented candle that attempts to capture the scents and essence of a visit to Hawksmoor.

This candle is a collaboration between Hawksmoor Antiques, Frazer Parfum and Lisa Firer Ceramics.

Simon commissioned Tammy Frazer to create a scent that captures his sense of antiquities in an historic and beautiful setting. The completely organic scent components are Combava White Lime, Thatch Grass, Violet Leaf, Hay and Osmanthus Flower. The embossed images on the individual candle holders were drawn by Lisa Firer from antique botanical prints of some of ingredients, and glow from within when the candle is lit.

The candles are available from both Hawksmoor Antiques and Hawksmoor House.