3 Bed Country House for sale
Vélez-Málaga, Malaga, Andalucia, Spain
Full Description
Country cortijo with original rustic features, throughout set on a sunny South-facing hillside with sea views, around 25 minutes inland from the coast and 20 minutes from the town of Velez-Malaga.
This beautiful country home brings together under one roof so many of the most popular features for many of those hunting for a home in the sun; original charm and rustic features, privacy, gardens and land, a beautiful swimming pool, magnificent sea and mountain views, and no dirt track.
The house is detached and surrounded by its own land and gardens, but whilst very private, it is not isolated and there are other country houses nearby. The road is alsphalt/concrete and in good condition, around 5 or 6 minutes’ drive from the village of Triana.
Electric gates lead onto a printed concrete driveway and parking area, and the garage/store room. From here, one can walk up to the front terrace of the house, through a gate into the inner patio courtyard, or to the delightful pool terrace. The pool terrace is the perfect place to enjoy the beautiful, open views across to the Mediterranean, as well as the mountains. The heated pool, 8 x 4m and has a slide-over cover for the Winter and is heated by an air source heat pump, and it is possible to swim all year round! On the garage roof and solar panels used to generate electricity and to heat the water in the house.
By the front terrace is a lovely barbecue area with built-in barbecue, and gardens, and a boules court. The front pergola terrace leads through the wooden front door into the inside of the house, into the living room (6 x 3m) with a sloping roof with beams, with ceiling fans. At the far end of this lovely room is an original fireplace fitted with a woodburner. Other features are the original style windows with wooden shutters that are very typical of this area, thick walls with aloves and rustic floor tiles.
An opening from the living room leads into the fully fitted country kitchen (3.5 x 3m) also with a sloping ceiling with beams and pretty windows. A door from the kitchen leads out into the delightful courtyard patio with semi-tiled walls and plants, and a gate leading out to the driveway.
From the kitchen, a short corridor leads to the family bathroom (2.5 x 1.5m) with a walk-in shower, and next door is bedroom 1 (2.5 x 2.5m). The corridor turns as it follows the inside of the courtyard patio walls, past the office/study to the left and to bedroom 2 (3 x 2.8m) with a brick-decorated arch through very thick walls to an en-suite bathroom (2.5 x 1.5m) with a bath with overhead shower.
The office is around 2 x 2.5m and from the office, stairs lead up to the third bedroom. This lovely room is around 4 x 3.5m with double glass doors to a ‘juliet’ balcony, with views, built-in wardrobes, a sloping ceiling with beams, and a brick-decorated arch to a very lovely bathroom with black and white tiles, elegant stand-alone bath and a modern walk-in double shower.
The land, apart from the gardens and pool terrace around the house, includes an orchard planted with over 60 carob trees (the beans are sold yearly for livestock feed), and overall, there are many fruit trees, including mango, avocado, lemons, lime and orange.
This is the perfect property to use as a very special holiday home (can also be used as a holiday let) or as a permanent home.
A few technical facts about this cortijo:
The house has oil-fired central heating with radiators across the house, as well as the wood-burner in the living room.
For the Summer it has celing fans in most rooms.
There are solar panels both to heat the hot water and to generate electricity to reduce electricity bills to a minimum.
The pool has an easy slide-on/slide off pool cover and pool filtration house
The land is fenced and has an automatic irrigation system to all plants.
There is mains water supplied to the house and a large water storage deposit.
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