THE OLD PHARMACY, Magoulades

Is this the perfect village house? Combining a renovated house with courtyard parking, citrus trees, and outbuildings for renovation it could well be just that.

Set behind iron gates, this house sits in a paved courtyard, right in the middle of the village of Magoulades, north west Corfu, and yet provides privacy and relative seclusion from the neighbours and traffic.

Once the home of the local doctor and pharmacist, the main house is ready to move into, but there is plenty left for a DIY enthusiast to get his teeth into. A huge single-storey olive press complete with the old stone wheels is just part of it. There is also the original pharmacy, set on two floors, which needs full conversion and the addition of an internal staircase. There is yet another storeroom connected to the main house awaiting conversion. The buildings form a natural courtyard to the front and two sides of a little garden area,with well, to the rear.

The main part of this house has been tastefully renovated by its present owner. In the manner of most village properties the rooms are arranged in a non-symmetrical way, with several outside doors and both internal and external stairs. The advantage of this arrangement is that the property could be easily divided into smaller, separate apartments, or just left the way it is - a huge sprawling manor house.

The main house consists of two storeys with a single storey extension to one side containing a summer (cool) living room. There is a large, non-fitted country kitchen, with dining/sitting area, a large formal sitting room, an nner hallway which leads to a scullery and bathroom and from there into the summer living room.

A spiral staircase leads up to a hallway that stretches from front to back of the house with a doorway leading outside at the front where there is a wide terrace and stairs back down to the courtyard. There are three double bedrooms, a bathroom and a small study or storeroom. Each room has views over the rooftops, church tower, gardens, and light streams in from all sides.

The potential of this property is hard to ignore. Lending itself to a variety of purposes, an obvious choice would be a bed-and-breakfast, country cottages for rent type business, but a huge single family home is also an option.

Magoulades village is within 10 minutes drive of the beautiful sandy beaches of Arillas and Aghios Stephanos, and the resort of Sidari which provides year-round supermarkets and cafes is also a short drive away.

price: 295,000 euros

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