In South Africa’s legislative capital, you can find a five-bedroom compound in the Western Cape’s wine country, a four-bedroom Victorian from 1901, and a five-bedroom from 2017 in a leafy gated community.

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Built two decades ago and set on nearly half an acre, this five-bedroom house is inside the 445-acre gated Diemersfontein Wine & Country Estate, which is known for its Pinotage, a South African varietal. It is near Wellington, a town of about 62,000. Cape Town, South Africa’s capital, is a 45-minute drive.

About 50 other residential properties — from large homes on two-plus acres to clusters of apartments with private club amenities — are scattered across Diemersfontein’s fields. An enclave with 18 single-story homes geared toward older residents is in the works.

Wine farm community residents can enroll their children in a private school, dine in the estate’s restaurant and frequent its wine-tasting facility. The estate is about 37 miles from the cafes, galleries, boutiques and museums in Stellenbosch, a university town known for its Cape Dutch architecture, which evokes South Africa’s colonial history.

Size: 6,577 square feet

Price per square foot: $107

Indoors: Beyond an electronic wooden sliding gate, the front door opens to an open-plan living room, dining room and kitchen with double-height Cape Dutch-style ceilings. There are exposed rafters, travertine floors, air-conditioning, under-floor heating and four tall windows in the front facade. The living room has a wood-burning stove in the fireplace at one end, with bookshelves extending to either side.

Frameless glass doors across the rear of the living areas fold and stack back, revealing an indoor/outdoor patio with a barbecue area, exposed beams and a thatched roof. Beyond the dining area, built-in wood drawers demarcate the kitchen, which has a center island with a breakfast bar, Caesar stone countertops, a Falcon Toledo stove and gas cooktop, and Miele appliances. There is a separate large scullery and a laundry room.

The spacious primary en suite bedroom has a dressing room, glass doors to a patio and private garden views. Upstairs, a study beneath a sloped thatched roof has two skylights and a large picture window with a slightly curved top and views of the Paarl mountains.

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