Farm Santa Comba Dão - olive trees, fruit trees, attic, terrace, orange trees, water hole, garage, balconies, water, fireplace, terraces, balcony

Description

Come and discover this magnificent estate on the main avenue of the city of Santa Comba Dão – Avenida de Santo Estevão – surrounded by commerce in the heart of a consolidated urban fabric.
This estate boasts an aristocratic house with a gross building area of 910.40sqm, set on a plot of land, the portion of which including the construction area covers approximately 7,289.70sqm, in addition to other additional areas to the south, totaling more than 12,000.00sqm.
The house was designed from scratch in 1956 and built in 1962, representing the paradigm of the architecture of that time, becoming famous for its profusion of huge balconies, crossed horizontal volumes topped by terraces overlooking the landscape, offering an extensive elevated view of a forest winding along the Dão river.
Built from scratch during the Estado Novo period, with a touch of Portuguese Suave, it is already in concrete and has 3 floors, becoming known in the city as the "House of Balconies". On the ground floor of the main house, there is a large hall in white natural marble stone providing access to the public and private areas of the single-family dwelling, including the common living room, dining room, tea room which in turn accesses the mystical music room, a space divided into a living area and a piano area by a large fireplace made of natural granite stone with two fronts. On this floor, there is also an office, a bedroom (formerly the maids' room), a kitchen with another connecting room (resembling a dining room) with another fireplace, and a guest bathroom with a bath.
On the upper floor, there are 3 simple bedrooms, two en-suite bedrooms, and an additional bathroom. This single-family building, designed by Architect Oliveira Martins, was originally designed with flat roofs, in a huge play of balconies over volumes, with huge areas of terraces overlooking the landscape. This also included the main volume, which during construction, and at the owners' request, became a multi-sloped tile roof, resulting in the enormous attic space (with the same dimensions as the central volume), accessed from the upper floor of the bedrooms by a staircase in the corridor. The ceiling heights are different due to the roof space, but the space has always been used as a huge storage area, also containing the three large water transfer tanks from the well to the different water heaters for each bathroom area.
The lower floor, or basement, is a huge area for wine production and tasting, including a complete cellar, production and provisioning, and also included three larger industrial barrels and three smaller ones with a contiguous wine cellar, tasting rooms, a small projection room, two bedrooms, and bathrooms. Additionally, on the same floor, there is a generous garage with capacity for 2 to 3 or 4 vehicles, depending on size.
The estate has a well for water collection, with transfer pumps to the main house and interior distribution, a water spring on the South plot "Chão das Laranjeiras, " various species of fruit trees, approximately 60 olive trees, and a small forest.