Country house 181 m², Viñuela

An unusual country house just 20 minutes from the coast, offering beautiful accommodation, lovingly renovated, plus an extra casita to complete on the inside

Casa Vielma is located on an elevated hillside with easy access, above a small hamlet of houses and within an easy 20 minute drive of the beach and 15 minutes to the historic town of Velez-Malaga. The area is peaceful and surrounded by orchards and nature.

The property is divided into three sections:

The main house is on three floors, with access from the ground on all levels. At the top level, a front door from the country lane leads into a comfortable, cosy living/dining/kitchen space (8 x 3m) with a beautiful, fully fitted kitchen with modern appliances. Just off the kitchen is a modern shower room (4m2), as well as a door leading out to the dining terrace, a delightful space which can also be accessed via the country lane, and which overlooks the pool and beautiful views. A few steps from this terrace lead down to the pool terrace, ideal for relaxing, reading etc., after a cool dip in the water! The pool is around 2.5 x 1.5m, perfect for keeping cool and enjoying the magnificent views from the water. From this terrace is a door to a bedroom on the middle floor.

From the living room, doors lead out to another terrace, this one is covered, with further space for eating, relaxing, enjoying an afternoon siesta, or entertaining, again with the panoramic views over the countryside and the valley.

From the covered terrace, a door takes us to steps leading down to the middle level. Here we find a short corridor leading to three bedrooms, (3.5 x 3m, 3 x 3m and 4 x 3m), a family bathroom (3 x 2.5m) and one of the three bedrooms has an en-suite shower room (2 x 2m) plus double patio doors to a balcony overlooking the pool and views, and another has a door to the pool terrace.

Steps lead down from this level to the lower level, where we find another living room (4 x 3m excluding stairs), which could also easily be used as a fourth bedroom, with doors out to a lovely shaded terrace with a pergola roof with cane covering. This lovely terrace also joins to the pool area on one side, aswell as an area of land that could be made into beautiful gardens. On the other side is access to the casita. There is also a useful lockable store room.

The land is located to one side, and consists of an extra 425m2, consisting of a flat area with a ruined house and a partly steep area beyond the ruin. These areas could be made into beautiful gardens, with flowering plants and fruit trees, as required. 161m2 of this land is categorised as urban and there is the potential to build on this area, pending discussions with the local authorities and permissions.

The casita is a separate cottage attached to the main house on the other side. This is already very attractive on the outside, and inside offers an open space for development, consisting of a room of 6 x 5m with windows. This would make an excellent one bedroom apartment, or could be converted into a studio for yoga, exercise, classes, painting, or as an office. It is easy to access this casita via a short path up the hill to the country land above, meaning that one does not have to access it via the rest of the property.

This unusual country house would be ideal as a holiday home and to let to tourists (it has a tourist licence and a cleaning and maintenance team in place), but would equally work well as a permanent home, and especially for anyone who wished to create extra gardens from scratch.