Chalet 4 rooms, Canillas de Aceituno

Located in the very heart of this popular village, with open views over a wide street, is this fascinating old house, once a ‘posada’, or old inn, where weary travellers would rest their horses or mules, eat and sleep, before moving on across the mountains. Today, the house needs some renovation, but structurally it is sound.

The front door leads into a long living room (6.5 x 3m) with a beamed ceiling and a traditional fireplace at the far end and windows to the street. A door to the rear leads to the large kitchen (3.5 x 3m) with a window to a side street. To the left of the living room is the staircase, and beyond, the rear hallway (3 x 3.3m), with a door to the left to the downstairs bedroom and bathroom (4.5 x 4m). These two rooms are separate at the moment, but divided only by a light partition wall, offering the chance to improve the layout, allowing natural light into the bedroom and creating a new en-suite bathroom. At the far end of the hallway, double doors lead out into the patio garden (around 8 x 4.5m). This lovely outdoor area could be transformed into a beautiful Andalusian courtyard, and a building to the left of the courtyard conists of two rooms, one downstairs (3 x 3m) and one upstairs (around the same size), which could be converted into an extra bedroom, an outside kitchen, or even rooms for treatments, classes or whatever might be useful and appropriate to the new owners.

Taking the stairs to the upper floor, to the right at the top of the stairs is a door leading into a very large bedroom (7 x 4m) with two sets of traditional double doors leading out to balconies over the main street. Also from the top of the stairs is access to a further area of 3.5 x 8m, divided currently into three further rooms, one leading on to the next. It would not be difficult to transform this upstairs room into several bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms.

From the large bedroom, stairs continue up to a huge open roof terrace, with wonderful views over the village, mountains and countryside.

This wonderful property can be purchased with the next door ‘casita’, listed under reference AX1282. Individually or together, this ancient piece of local history would make a wonderful home potentially with rooms to let to walkers and tourists.