The house, according to the deeds, was built in 1950. But when you look at a lot of paperwork for different houses you see 1950 everywhere so I wonder if that’s just when records began.
This is at the top of the road. A lot of the “San” roads, and some others like Calle Jesus have these little shrines built into the walls.
Our house is about 200m down from the top of the road at the lower part of the town so we’re probably about 1/5th of the way from the lowest part of the town to the highest.
Calle San Pedro is a small, fairly quiet street for the most part. In the warmer months, evenings can be quite noisy with the “las charlas a la fresca” or “charlar al fresco” (translates as “chat or talk in the cool”). This is when the Spanish all sit outside their front doors for a good old natter. Conversation is conducted from one end of the street to the other. Children play and it’s a proper social affair. It generally seems to go on from about 7.00pm to 9.00pm and then all goes quiet again. Rather than being annoying, it’s actually quite nice to listen to and one town is even trying to get UNESCO recognition for this traditional activity.
Anyway, our house is in the middle of it all. From the street we have a very traditional pair of wooden doors leading straight into the lounge. The walls are thick and everything is white monocapa. No damp course so nipping out and choosing a tin of Dulux is a bad idea. The walls need to breathe or damps sets in. So you have a kind of lime-wash over everything. Lovely and bright and cool but it flakes off quickly and needs redoing every few years.
So, we have a small lounge with no windows. This keeps the room cool. Light comes in through the kitchen door and window so it’s not dark at all in there.
The best bit of the lounge is our lovely wood burner that we had installed before our first winter visit. Much needed! From the lounge it’s more or less open plan into a decent sized kitchen diner.
The lounge also has open stairs up to a big landing.
The main bedroom, spare bedroom and bathroom lead off this and there is also a recess where the spiral stairs sit that lead up to the roof terrace.
Below, you can see some 360 degree images I took over our first couple of visits. A lot’s changed but you can get an idea of the layout. You can use your mouse to drag the view in all directions and click on the markers to move around to the different rooms or go upstairs.