Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, Western Cape
The Lighthouse
A beachfront house that keeps its best rooms for the evening.
- Bedrooms
- 5
- Bathrooms
- 4
- Sleeps
- 10
- Levels
- 3
The house
What it is, honestly.
The Lighthouse is a beachfront home in Bloubergstrand, with the Atlantic across the road and Table Mountain on the horizon. Local cafés and restaurants are within easy reach.
Gather in the generous living spaces, cook at your own pace in the fully equipped kitchen, and settle around the glass-enclosed dining room as the light changes over Table Bay.
From quiet mornings on the patio to evenings together indoors, this is a home with space to find your own rhythm. Wi-Fi, a smart TV and secure on-site parking make settling in easy.
Room by room
Five bedrooms, six spaces — each one completely different.
01 — Chapter one
At the Edge
The house sits where the road runs out and the rocks begin. You hear the water before you see it. Step out of the front door, turn left, and the beach is a walk — not a drive, not a plan, a walk. Across the bay, the full mountain range: Table Mountain flat in the middle, Lion’s Head to the right, Devil’s Peak holding the left edge. Mornings between eight and eleven light the mountain face directly. It is the reason people photograph this stretch of coast and nowhere else.
02 — Chapter two
The Dining Box
A glazed room that pushes out toward the water, so dinner happens inside the weather rather than behind it. Two low swivel chairs face the horizon for the half hour before anyone is hungry. When the sun drops, the whole room turns the colour of the sky and nobody bothers to turn the lights on.
03 — Chapter three
Room to Play
A full-size pool table with an ocean on one side of it. This is not a games corner squeezed under a stairwell — it is a room, with light, and it is the room the evening tends to drift back to. Somebody always claims they have not played in years. They are usually lying.
04 — Chapter four
The Lion’s Den
Leather, rugs, a fire, a bar, and enough seating that nobody has to perch. The Den is the warm heart of the middle level — deliberately low-lit, deliberately unhurried, built for the part of the night when the conversation gets good and the wind picks up outside.
05 — Chapter five
The Blue Hearth
An electric-blue built-in braai under a string of lights, on a sheltered terrace that stays usable when the Cape Doctor is showing off. This is where South Africans actually cook. Bring more meat than you think you need and give the fire an hour longer than you planned.
06 — Chapter six
Nightfall
The top of the house is where the day is handed over. A suite that opens straight onto the dusk, a rooftop terrace with the last of the light on it, and a narrow side passage that goes an impossible shade of blue for about eleven minutes after sunset. Stay out for those eleven minutes.
What you get
The list, and the things that are not on it.
- Four bedrooms, five bathrooms, sleeps eight
- Three levels, each with its own outdoor space
- Glass-box dining room facing Table Bay
- Dedicated pool-table room
- The Lion’s Den — fireplace lounge and bar
- Fully equipped kitchen with island
- Rooftop terrace for sundowners
- Fibre Wi-Fi and two work-capable desks
- Short walk to the beach and local restaurants
- Secure off-street parking
Notably absent
Told to you now rather than discovered on arrival.
- No swimming pool — the Atlantic is two minutes away, and it is cold, and that is the point.
- No lift. Three levels means stairs.
- Not a quiet house. It is built to be filled.
The gallery
The Lighthouse in 25 photographs.
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Enquire
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For owners
This is what we do with a house when nobody is rushing us.
The Lighthouse reads the way it does because it was positioned, styled, photographed and operated as one thing rather than one of many. If you own something in the Cape, that is the offer.