The Property (294 sqm)
This traditional Tuscan farmhouse is set on the side of a south facing slope above the valley and surrounded by its own land.
There are two ground floors with the upper ground floor providing the living accommodation and the lower ground floor the old stables and storage rooms including the boiler room.
An adjacent former farm building (31 sqm) contains three storage rooms and the old forno. There is a stone paved terrace at the upper level approached via a flight of stone steps from the lower level stone flagged terrace and with further stone steps to the old olive terraces above the house.
Living Accommodation (approx 136 sqm) comprises a kitchen, 2 living rooms, a study, 3 bedrooms and one bathroom.
The accommodation was well converted in the 1980s and properly maintained ever since. Most rooms have terracotta floors and all enjoy good views from their windows to the south and west over the rural valley below and the surrounding wooded foothills of the Pratomagno.
The entrance from the south and west facing terrace is into a living room with the original wood burning stone fireplace off which is the kitchen and another living room.
The lower ground floor (approx. 158 sqm) has the original stone flagged stables (approx. 60 sqm), a stone walled and terracotta tiled cantina with stone flagged terrace, a tool room with a mezzanine storage room above approached from the stable, a further store room and the boiler room.
Land and Garden
Over the last thirty years, the owners imported a number of specimen trees and shrubs from the UK, which are now scattered around the gardens making for a most pleasant and varied atmosphere on the various garden terraces below and above the farmhouse.
The gardens and the land have about 60 good olive trees for the production of ones own private olive oil. Otherwise the land is largely uncultivated.
Services
There is a gas fired central heating and hot water boiler as well as a private water supply. The private water supply is from a tank fed by a spring on the upper terraces above the farmhouse. The property also is connected to the mains water supply. Mains electricity.
Viewing
All viewing is by appointment through La Vecchia Toscana Properties.
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