Direct from owners! 4 bed country home close to Loja, Granada, Loja, Spain

For sale direct from the owners!

This large 4 bedroom detached country home offers the best of both worlds – a peaceful location with great countryside views but the house is not isolated and is ideal for access to the whole of Andalucia via the motorway network.

The house is situated almost at the top of the hill in Los Arenales, about 3km from the main road, all tarmac and about 300M of concrete road.

The house has been designed to make the most of the great views with a first floor living room with views of the Sierra Nevada, Sierra Gorda, the Sierra de Loja and the Parapanda mountain in the distance.

There are bedrooms on both floors of the house which delivers a huge amount of flexibility for future use and creates the ability to accommodate guests with their own privacy and independence.

The master bedroom is on the first floor and comes with an en-suite shower/wet room. In addition, there is a second bedroom and shower room on this floor.

A further room is currently used as a study or home office on this level.

On the ground floor is an entrance hallway which leads to the adjacent garage, a door to the rear garden and has the stairs to the first floor.

Off the hallway is a dining room which leads through to the kitchen, a large utility room and a further shower/wet room. There is also a further door to the rear garden.

Two ground floor double bedrooms are accessed from the dining room and give a degree of flexibility in terms of how the house is used going forward. These rooms could easily be used as hobby rooms or as a larger home office.

Both the master bedroom and the first floor living room have balconies which are large enough to sit and enjoy the amazing views. The garage roof has also been designed and built to offer an additional terrace space. It would only require the addition of a hand rail and balustrade.

Sometimes, the little things can really add up…

♦ The house comes with AFO document from Loja town hall – no legality issues or delays in buying

♦ Flexible layout allowing a number of different uses for new owners. For instance, the garage could easily be converted into a downstairs sitting room overlooking the pool. There is ample room at the side of the house to park a car, in a car port if necessary.

♦ Terrific country views to the distant mountain ranges

♦ Double glazing to all windows and and security bars to the back door, garden door and garage side door

♦ The front door has internally reinforced shutters, the front gate is lockable from the inside and out.

♦ Private water source plus back up deposit with pressure activated pump. The water is supplied by the Los Arenales water cooperative. The backup 4 cubic meter water deposit is  filled from this supply.

♦ Hot water via two gas water heaters which can feed the whole house and secondary in line electric system and a tank heater in the garage which are back up for the ground floor only.

♦ Wymax Internet with WiFi through line of sight system with 30Mbps download average

♦ BBQ and outside kitchen area with electrical supply and water supply close by

♦ Fixed to the house there is a pulley system to allow for logs for the fire to be hoisted from the ground to the roof top storage seats (for the first floor living room).

Gardens and outside space…

The gardens are a delight with a large side garden planted with lots of mature plants. The side path leads to the rear garden, a terrace and the swimming pool.

Further down the garden is access to the olive and almond grove, which comprise around 35 trees of each type. There is also a productive fig and plum tree.

A large workshop is ideal for those who want to be creative a gate leads to the side of the house where gas bottles, emergency water tanks and a covered store is located.

There is also a storage shed, water is plumed in but no permanent electrical supply.

From the upper terrace a gate leads to the 8m X 5m swimming pool which has tiled terrace area with synthetic grass laid over the tiles to the far side of the pool. A small pool shed houses the pump and filter.

In the pool area there is a small summer house that provides a good deal of shade out of season and before the pagodas are covered.

The cultivated part of the garden is bounded by a stone wall. The land outside of this (approx 2,100M2) has been left wild but is fully fenced.

Loja, Granada…

The road from Loja (the A4154) has just been up graded, this has cut the traveling time to Loja by some 15 minutes so driving into Loja can be done in approx. 20mins.

There are many facilities and amenities within Loja including the modern hospital and medical centre.

Shopping options are many and varied but larger supermarkets can be reached with ease including Consum, Lidl and Mercadona but there is a huge selection of smaller shops within the town.

Sports facilities are abundant with communal swimming pool, football stadium, padel courts and indoor sports hall.

All the usual facilities such as banks, chemist, post office and town hall are all available within the town and this is a town that is thriving all year round. This is an agricultural area and is not dependent on tourism but you’ll always be made welcome by the locals.

With access to the A92 motorway, this provides access to Granada airport (50mins) and Malaga airport in around an hour.

Granada is a rarity with the ability to ski one day and visit the beach the following day – access to the Sierra Nevada ski centre is an hour and 15mins and heading south to the Costal Tropical, the beaches at Torre del Mar can be reached in roughly the same time. The owners have been on the ski slope in the morning and on the beach in the afternoon!