Property Description

Casa Cha is a traditional, eco- friendly Portuguese style house, located in in the Serra de Estrela Geo Park with amazing panoramic views, including looking over to Colcorinho mountain. The house is set on the outskirts of a pretty village which has an award winning hotel and restaurant, 3 shops café and a taxi service. There are many blue and gold star river beeches minutes drive from the house.

The house was lovingly rebuilt from a ruin 10 years ago by a very reputable local builder to an exceptional standard and finish. The build exceeds all statutory building regulations and consequently granted the highest possible energy rating recently.

The house is set over 3 floors and has very spacious rooms including 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a large fitted kitchen, balcony, roof terrace and a large covered patio area with built in BBQ. There is a solid fuel English Rayburn in the kitchen which, as well as cooking, augments the hot water central heating system. There is a good size family swimming pool, essential for these hot summer days. Land has total area of 1,900m2.

Casa Cha is surrounded by mature gardens planted with a wide variety flowering native perennial plants and there is always something of interest at all times of the year. The kitchen gardens comprises of organic raised beds currently planted with a variety of vegetables including peppers tomatoes melons, chillies, raspberries amongst others, all of which thrive in this environment. The orchard has matures fruit trees planted 10 years ago with fruit bearing fig, hazelnut, apple. Pear, plum, peach and nectarine trees.. This house was well known in the village for growing exceptional wine making grapes and there are many grape vines in the gardens.

The drive and the swimming pool terrace has been fully paved with local granite. There are solar panels for hot water and solar panels for generating electricity to add to the eco -friendly credentials as well as keeping running costs low. The house and grounds are totally secure with robust metal wire and concrete fence posts fence and has electric gates.

The nearest big town with all amenities and services including supermarkets, hospitals and shops is 10 miles away, and there is good network of public transport to get you there and back. There are excellent links to get to Lisbon and Porto other parts of the continent by public transport within a short drive from the house.