The Estate - Facilities

Main House

• 8 bedrooms (including two with balconies) – sleeps 14
• 5 bathroom/shower rooms (including two ensuite)
• Downstairs WC/Outside WC
• Large dining hall with door to terrace
• Sitting room/library with grand piano and door to terrace
• Large kitchen/breakfast room with fridge and dishwasher, door to terrace
• Utility room with large American fridge/freezer (including ice making facility),           back-up/bottle fridge, washing machine and separate tumble dryer
• Study
• Garage with water pumps for house
• Boiler room/drying room and log store
• Oil fired central heating and hot water
• Digital satellite television and terrestrial Spanish and Portuguese TV
• Stereo Hi-Fi, Tuner, CD and Video
• Extensive terraces
• Mains electricity
• Mains water, switchable to cistern fed from own wells and boreholes
• Bottled gas (tandem 55 kg cylinders in external store)
• Telephone

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Gardens

• Secluded walled garden with 7 m swimming pool, marble dining table,       ornamental sink, and barbecue facilities
• Formal garden with irrigated lawns
• Large 14 m swimming pool with pool house containing plant room, poolside    furniture   storage, changing room, shower/WC and fridge for refreshments
• Full international size all-weather tennis court with practice wall
• Full size trampoline
• Childrens' swings

Casa do Outeiro

• 2 bedrooms – sleeps 5
• Shower room with WC and bidet
• Large sitting room with sleeping platform
• Large Alentejan fireplace with high output woodburning stove
• Kitchen with fridge – no dishwasher
• Stone patio with large traditional bread oven
• Bottled gas (tandem 55 kg cylinders in external store)
• Water pumped from underground cistern fed by estate water (non potable)

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Caretaker’s cottage (part of stable block)

• 3 bedrooms
• Shower room with WC
• Sitting room/Kitchen
• Dining room
• Patio
• Kitchen garden
• Mains electricity and water

Stable block

• 4 large fully fitted stables
• 2 smaller secondary stables
• Workshop
• Covered storage area for feed
• Lean to hangar for tractors and equipment
• Mains electricity and water

Equestrian facilities

• Large sand school with posts and rails
• 2 post and rail fenced enclosures

The land

• 55 hectares comprising:

• Cork forest 10.5 Ha
• Mixed cork and pine forest 17 Ha
• Natural pasture 2.5 Ha
• Vineyard 11 Ha (including roads and unutilised land)
• Other 14 Ha

• 3 boreholes (6000 l/hr, 3000 l/hr, 2000 l/hr)
• 2 Wells
• Surface water collection cistern
• Water pumping system
• Automatic garden irrigation system and pump room
• Approximately 6 km of unmade roads