A recently renovated, four bedroom detached house with garden, pool and several anexes. The house, which is set over two floors, has
central heating with SIM card heating on/off system for remote operation. There is energy efficient external and internal lighting, mainly LED
The garden is completely walled and has been landscaped with mature fruit trees, (three orange, one pear, one peach, one cherry, one plum and one lemon, also a wisteria climber, bougainvillea, oleander bushes around the pool and a Camelia, and 200 grapevines and has a pathway all around it. The garden also has an automatic irrigation system with expansion vessel, fed by a borehole.
There is a Salt water 8x4 meter pool and self-dosing chlorination system/sand filtration with two nighttime underwater pool lights, with oleander bushes screening it off for total privacy. For more comfort there is an electrically heated air to water heat pump (9KW) to heat the pool water
There is a gated driveway which gives leads to the tiled carport with space for four cars and a barbeque in one corner
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The house has double glazed aluminium framed windows and marble window and door surrounds. The windows have manually operated external roller shades.
The front door of the house faces the driveway. From the entrance hall there is a tiled stone staircase with wooden floor and wooden handrails to the first floor. The hallway has a door to a balcony overlooking the garden and with good views into the surrounding countryside.
From the central hallway there are five doors, four opening to a good sized bedroom each, and another to the spacious bathroom with oval bath tub with shower above, toilet, bidet and vanity basin and a centrally heated towel radiator.
All the rooms have varnished wooden floors. One of the bedrooms has a built-in wardrobe, and there is another large built-in wardrobe alongside the corredor. At the end of the corredor is an extendable ladder to the attic, which has been completely insulated.
On the ground floor, the hall way opens into a large open space kitchen / living room. The kitchen has a range of built-in base and eye level wooden units with granite work surfaces and a corner oven with hub. There is plenty of space for a kitchen isle with two chairs and a table and chairs to seat six people. There is an unused open fireplace in the corner. From the hallway there is also access to a complete fully tiled bathroom with bathtub with shower above, toilet, bidet and vanity basin and a centrally heated towel radiator. Adjacent to this there is a study to one side and a storage room to the other.
The owners usually enter the house by the kitchen door, which is accessed by the open front garage; this large open space with high roof is also used as the outdoor dining area. It has a stone barbeque in the corner near to the door to the summer kitchen and has tiled floors.
Also accessed from the carport, there is a separate external room currently used as a gym and a utility room plumbed for washing machine/dryer.
Here we find the Diesel tank for central heating boiler (Worcester Bosch Greenstar 32/50KW) and the 300 liter twin coil hot water storage vessel (new 2019) with solar heated coil, boiler coil and electric element. All timer controlled.
Next to this is another separate room which is currently used as a cinema room with central heating radiator.
On the roof of the carport we find a 18 tube solar vacuum mounted system for hot water supply.
Next to the carport there is a little house with a room and a bathroom with toilet, shower and hand basin. Here we also find the pump system for the swimming pool.
As mentioned above, the garden is fenced and there is a paved vehicle entrance on the far end, leading to a number of additional buildings and sheds, all neatly built and well kept, perfect to store the summer outdoor furniture and garden accessories, as a garage, and one was used as bird cage. There is also a big water tank with four outlet pipes to the garden area
The water comes from a borehole with abundant water. The garden is flat and is walled and has tall grapevines all around. There is a timer controlled garden 'Hunter' x6 sprinkler system installed.
The property is situated in a little hamlet belonging to the parish of Castelo, council of Sertã. It is easily accessed via the IC8, which is only 4 km from the property. The property is located in the vicinity of the river Zezere, more specifically near to both the barragem of Cabril and Boiçã. The nearest river beach is only about 2,5 kms from the property, a lovely place to fish, canoe, swim or just relax. The Castelo do Bode is also within a short drive.
The council town to the property is Sertã, which is approximately eight kilometers drive. Sertã has several supermarkets, shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, health centre, schools, banks, pharmacies, parks and bus station.
The closest airport to the property is situated at Lisbon, which is approximately two and a quarter hours by car. Lisbon airport is serviced by a variety of low cost airlines which operate regular flights into and out of the United Kingdom and other European countries.
Energy Rating: D
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