A mountainside villa near Florence converted to a very high and luxurious standard while retaining all the unique original features and fabric of the building.

A rare opportunity to acquire a recently converted mountain villa in a beautiful and secluded setting next to the Vallombrosa national park.

The property comprises of Hall, Sitting room, Dining room, Master Bedroom with en suite bathroom and dressing room, 6 further bedrooms (2 with en suite shower rooms), 2 bathrooms, library, study, kitchen, breakfast room, pantry, cloakroom, utility room, staff bedroom.

This former monastic property and later a villa, close to Vallombrosa Monastery, has been restored to a very high standard while retaining many of the original features.

The property opens up into a large wooden beamed breakfast room with a fireplace that leads into a modern state of the art kitchen, equipped with double fridges, 6 sets of gas hobs and a flat screen TV on the wall as well as plenty of storage space. Next to the kitchen is a pantry/larder and a staff bedroom and shower room.

Along the corridor from the kitchen is the dining room, with original round leaded windows, each circle with individually blown glass. A large arch links the dining room to the sitting room, which enjoys equally attractive windows, a fireplace and which leads into the Hall.

The Hall enjoys high wooden ceilings, a tiled floor and a large stone fireplace. The Hall opens outside to a stone portico and a fir lined avenue, which leads to the twelfth century chapel. The Hall also has original stained glass windows and leads to the staircase and the downstairs cloakroom, which has only just been completed to a very high standard and a utility room.

There are a number of original features throughout the ground floor such as leaded windows and painted patterns which testify to the affluent history of the property.

There are three staircases to the first floor, one leads from the Hall and goes to a corridor off which are the master bedroom and four additional bedrooms. The master bedroom is approached through a stone framed doorway and boasts a large dressing room, a double bedroom with a wall mounted flat screen TV behind which is a bath and a shower room with a rain/waterfall shower. The master bedroom also has a balcony.

There are four further bedrooms in this part of the first floor, one ensuite, which also has a balcony and another bedroom with a balcony. There is also a bedroom has a delightful wooden painted ceiling.

The second staircase to the first floor is reached from a beamed room used as a gymnasium and leads up to an office, with eight windows giving excellent views of the garden and entrance as well as the courtyard, (as seen in the main photo of the property). Next to this room is a room currently used as a library but which could be turned into a bedroom.

Opposite is a bathroom and a large double guest bedroom with a balcony and an ensuite bathroom. Throughout the top floor the property has large windows giving ample light. The upstairs corridor also contains a spiral staircase, recently installed, which leads to a small single bedroom in the highest part of the house, the original Piccionaia (pigeon coop).

The property also has a walled courtyard used as an outdoor eating area with a working forno (Pizza oven).

The Chapel

The chapel, built in the 12th century when the area was closely associated with the Vallombrosa monastery, has recently been lovingly restored and now boasts a set of new pews made locally in the renowned furniture making village of Tosi out of Chestnut wood, as well as a new alter. The chapel also has electricity and a bell.

The Land and Garden

The garden, of half a hectare, is fully fenced with a lawn surrounding the house and a number of fruit trees close by. There is a fir tree avenue leading to the chapel, adjacent to the property is a well built stone double garage partly used for storage which on the floor below (accessible from the road next to the property) is the boiler room.

Elsewhere in the garden is a chicken house currently used as storage. In total there are 2.7Ha of land which is either garden or woodland and which supplies the house with firewood in the winter months.

Planning permission has been granted to build a swimming pool and an adjacent pool house.

Local Area

The property is close to the mountain town of Consuma and to the famous road linking the Casentino valley to Florence. The beautiful, unspoilt and rural Casentino is very popular with Florentines for second homes and the valley contains picturesque towns such as Poppi, Stia and Bibbiena as well as the Franciscan sanctuary of Chiusi della Verna, where St. Francis received the stigmata.

Closer to the property is the fortified monastery of Vallombrosa and the Chianti Rufina and Pomino wine growing regions. The Vallombrosa national park boundaries are also close by, the property is surrounded by a largely wooded landscape while farmland - vineyards and olive groves mainly, predominate further down the hillside.

Services

Recently installed Gas C/H system with a private gas tank. Electricity, 2 Telephone lines and 1 fax line. Private water supply from 3 wells. 2 Sceptic tanks. All the downstairs windows have shutters, which are linked into the alarm system. The property has recently been rewired and renovated to a very high standard.

No work required. Excellent. The property has recently been rewired and renovated to a very high standard.

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