
Nagmaal House
Nagmaal—Communion—House is an historic character home with charm and extensive detail, with large, well maintained, gardens, located on a quiet residential street in Rosendal.
Consists of three en-suite bedrooms, that sleeps 8 in 4 Queen size beds. Includes a large master bedroom with separate lounge/dressing room, clawfoot tub and shower enclosure.
The Studio has separate entrance from the gardens and has a kitchenette and an extra bed in the sleeping loft. Wrap around porch with braai, comfy couches, outdoor dining table and loads of living space. Extensive gardens and with pond and a wood-fired hot tub. Nagmaal is an eco-house with solar power and its own borehole—load shedding proof. Ceilings are well insulated—to Canadian standards—for those chilly Free State winters. Snug main sitting and living room with wood stove and kitchen with lots of storage and counter space.
The History of Nagmaal House
This is one of the oldest residential homes in Rosendal and was probably a farmer’s town house, or pied-à-terre. At a time when most travel was by horseback or ox cart and it could take a full day to reach Rosendal, it was customary for farm families to keep a house in town for attending Church, conducting business or socialising. These Nagmaal— communion—houses, as they were known, reflected the central role of the Church in rural life in the early 20 th century Free State. The building’s character echoes these needs—a simple three bedroom home with stoep, built of locally made bricks overlaid with plaster. The building’s mother deed was issued in 1912, the same year Rosendal was first properly surveyed, and it is likely that the house is somewhat older, possibly dating to the town’s founding in 1908 or earlier.