Beira Alta, Aguiar da Beira, Portugal

Exceptional 18th-century manor in the centre of the village of Aguiar da Beira, Guarda.

This charming two-storey manor has four façades. It is built in a "U" shape with blocks of granite. It is situated within a walled property covering more than 7,000 sq m, with a swimming pool and a garden containing centuries-old cedars.

The property features 1,100 sq m of gross floor area spread over two levels. It comprises a central entrance with a double leaf door in solid wood, a majestic imperial staircase in granite, access to the recreational area of the house, plus three separate entrances, all accessing the home's central corridors on the ground floor. There are also five open-plan rooms, formerly known as stores, which were used for storage, and bedrooms for employees, in the north wing of the house, and four covered parking spaces in the south wing.

The upper floor includes twenty-seven rooms, two corridors that divide the social area from the bedroom area and the leisure area, with the music room, library and living room, seven bedrooms with fireplaces or wood-burning stoves (two of them are suites with south-facing balconies), rustic kitchen with granite fireplace and direct access to the pool garden. Six lounges (one of them a 50 sq m dining room, and one a living room with a fireplace and a ceiling made entirely of wood in a box-shaped Manueline style) complete this floor.

All the windows and balcony doors are made of solid wood and glass, and the interior wooden shutters are from when the house was built.

The property also has an attached granite house (former housekeepers' residence) and a plot of land with stone annexes, which in times past were used for horses, cattle, and equipment for cultivating and cleaning the gardens.

EPC is pending.

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Please note that all distances and measurements are approximate and, for security reasons, do not represent the property's exact location. For more information on the precise location of the property and its surrounding area, please contact the listed Property Adviser.