Main house
Calamus · Luxury suite
- Beds
- Double bed + two single beds
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 4
The main bedroom of the house, and the only room that takes four.
View room
Rosendal · Eastern Free State
A quiet guesthouse in the heart of Rosendal
Six well-appointed bedrooms in the picturesque town of Rosendal, with a communal self-catering kitchen, a braai area in the garden and a function venue for up to 36 guests.
- 6
- Bedrooms — three in the house, three in the garden
- 1–6
- Guests per room, with one room sleeping six
- 36
- Seats in the Pomegranate function hall
About House Beautiful
House Beautiful is a small guesthouse in Rosendal, a town of trees and old sandstone between Ficksburg and Senekal. The house sits behind a garden, with a long shaded patio along the front of it and a braai area under the trees at the bottom of the lawn.
There are six bedrooms: three inside the main house and three in the garden wing. Guests in all six share the self-catering kitchen, the lounge and the dining room, which is what makes the place work for a family weekend or a group travelling together.
Rooms are named after the spices and herbs of the garden — Calamus, Spikenard, Camphire, Myrrh, Frankincense and Saffron.
Six bedrooms
Three rooms open off the passage in the main house, and three sit together in the garden beside the braai area, each with its own en-suite shower.
Main house
Spikenard
- Beds
- Double bed
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 2
A quiet double room inside the main house.
View room
Main house
Camphire
- Beds
- Double bed
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 2
The main-house room that opens straight off the dining room.
View room
Garden
Myrrh
- Beds
- Double bed
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 2
A garden room with its own shower, opening onto the lawn.
View room
Garden
Frankincense
- Beds
- Double bed + four bunk beds
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 6
Our family room: a double, four bunks and its own kitchen.
View room
Garden
Saffron
- Beds
- Double bed
- Capacity
- Sleeps up to 2
A garden room with an en-suite shower and doors onto the grass.
View room
Main house
Calamus, Spikenard, Camphire
Inside the house, a few steps from the lounge, dining room and kitchen.
Garden wing
Myrrh, Frankincense, Saffron
French doors onto the lawn, each with an en-suite shower, beside the braai area.
On the property
Everything here is shared, or bookable, depending on what you need.
Communal kitchen, lounge & dining room
A fully equipped self-catering kitchen, a lounge with a fireplace and a dining room, shared by guests in all six rooms.
Braai area
A braai built into the stone wall, with benches and tables under the trees, facing the garden and right beside the three garden rooms.
Pomegranate function hall
An intimate hall seating up to 36 people for conferences, celebrations and meetings. Prior arrangement is necessary.
Rosendal, and what's around it
The town has two general stores, a bakery, a bottle store, a hardware store and a petrol station, so a self-catering stay is easy to provision. There are restaurants and a bar in town, tennis courts and an art gallery, and Sunday church services down the road.
Further out there is cycling, running and hiking, horse riding, cave exploring, bird watching and the local markets — and Clarens is an easy day trip.
Rosendal is a small Eastern Free State town between Ficksburg and Senekal, at the foot of the Witteberg range. It was laid out in the early 1900s and was close to empty by the 1980s; today it is a village of about 140 people where artists, writers and tiny-home builders have settled. There is more to do here than the size of the place suggests.
Enquiries & bookings
Bookings are handled directly by Dora van Niekerk. Call or send a WhatsApp message and we'll confirm availability.
Or email info@housebeautiful.co.za.