Character country estate with 9 hectares

A property of character such as this is not often on the market. The house has the best of old and new, and a wonderful location with everything one could wish for in a sought-after area of Italy – Umbria, the Green Heart of Italy.

Nine hectares of olive grove, deciduous woodland and flower-carpeted meadow surround the house, giving it total tranquillity and privacy. Here you can explore little paths that follow the contours of your land, hunting for mushrooms and truffles (celebrated local delicacies), or you can pick apples, peaches, cherries, walnuts and figs from your trees, and grapes from the vines that grow alongside the drive.

Even in the centre of all this totally natural and unspoilt landscape, you are only five minutes away from the road connecting Foligno, Ancona, Fano, Perugia, Florence and Rome and so able to make a quick get-away. The road up to the property is newly-asphalted.

The house is large and airy, built according to the latest anti-seismic specifications, but with a ‘country manor’ grandeur thanks to its traditional ‘dovecot’ tower and the warm pink colour of the walls. The terracotta roof-tiles, the double-glazed windows with their internal shutters and the exterior generally are in excellent condition, but the interior has yet to be finished and so allows scope for personal taste. This is of course reflected in the price. As it stands, there are 4 double-bedrooms, each of them en suite, and a one-hundred-square-meter ‘option room’ (at present partly a double garage) to seize the imagination. The total floor area is nearly 350 square meters.

The building is L-shaped lying around a south-facing sunny courtyard and shaded by a beautiful mature oak tree. There is permission for a swimming pool adjacent to the house, and for a terrace to overlook the property’s own private valley with its green slopes and apple orchard. There are also stunning views down to the small town of Valtopina (all services) and beyond it the magnificent bulk of Mount Subasio, beloved of St Francis as a retreat from nearby Assisi.

Obviously how much you personalise the house is up to you but to bring it up to fully-habitable standard and including a swimming pool will cost approximately a further €120,000 inclusive of professional fees.

Included in the sale is a very appealing detached (and well out-of-sight of the main house) green-field plot which could be developed in the future subject to permission. It is situated at the end of the existing houses and right on the local distributor road making it an excellent candidate for inclusion on the local Comune’s list of suitable building land when it does its next revision making this an unmissable investment opportunity.

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