Townhouse for sale in Murchas, Lecrín, Granada

A beautifully converted former olive mill with the option to buy a smaller house next door.

Mill House - 219 m2
Molino Accommodation
Beautiful main reception room with original mill machinery
Mezzanine Living Room/Study
5 bedrooms
2 bathrooms
Hand-crafted kitchen and breakfast room
Utility/laundry room
Ground floor patio
Top floor roof terrace

From the outside of this village house, you would not guess at the treasures that lie within. The two modest facades with entrances from Calle Trinidad and Calle Honda give very little away, but one you are inside, the property opens up into a unique, rich and historically fascinating home.

The Mill was originally built in 1947 but has been very sympathetically converted into a spacious home, using original mill machinery and other features to maintain the integrity of the property’s former use.

Although the postal address for the Mill is in Calle Honda, the main entrance could be considered to be in Calle Trinidad, where beautiful double doors open into a hallway. In this part of the house, on the ground floor, there are two small bedrooms one of which is currently used as an office and the other as a store room. There is a connecting door between the two rooms. From the rear of these rooms there is access to the ground floor patio garden area.

Utility/Laundry room, ground floor bathroom.

Walking further into the property, you reach the kitchen, also with a door onto the patio. This is a lovely space, with hand-crafted cupboards and exposed timber beams, and a breakfast/dining area. A shallow flight of brick stairs leads down into the main reception room which is a dramatic and beautiful space. This is where the main mill used to be, and the large cast iron mill equipment remains as a reminder of the history of the building. The space is double height up to the timber rafters and there is a large central stone fireplace. Large flagstones cover the floor. Despite this being a former industrial space, it has been converted into a characterful, warm and very stylish living room. There are two large millstones at one end that have been used to create the formal dining room table.

A flight of open-tread stairs leads up to a mezzanine floor above the living room, and from this level there is access to the additional bedrooms in the house. The mezzanine itself is a spacious and characterful living area, used currently as a TV room and study beneath the sloping beamed roof.

From the first floor landing, there is access to the two first floor bedrooms and a family bathroom, and a spiral staircase leads up to the top floor bedroom and roof terrace.

The master bedroom is a delightful room, with french windows opening overlooking Calle Trinidad. At one end of the room there is open fireplace, and there is an original timber beamed roof.

The guest bedroom also has french windows at one end that look out over the ground floor patio.

The landing, from where the spiral stairs lead up to the top floor has space for a desk and for use as a study/office.

The top floor bedroom has windows on two side with lovely views over rooftops to the open countryside. A door opens onto the small roof terrace.

The Mill spans the block between Calle Honda and Calle Trinidad and next door to a pretty village square, the Plaza del Arzobispo, now one of the main centres of the village tucked behind the church.

The adjacent house is also available for sale, and the price for both properties is €380,000. Buying both properties for a good price provides some fabulous additional opportunities.

Small House - 88 m2 (Calle Trinidad 1) - €40,000
The smaller house, Calle Trinidad 1, could be reformed to provide a private, self-catering house that would generate holiday rental income, separate from the Mill:

The smaller house could be incorporated into the main Mill and part of the smaller property used to create a lovely garden;

The smaller house could be demolished completely to provide a beautiful, large garden for the mill with space for a pool.

The Mill and Calle Trinidad can be purchased together or the Mill can be purchased on its own. The price for both the Mill and the smaller house together is €380,000.

This is a fabulous opportunity to acquire a historic house with plenty of accommodation and the possible additional benefits of the next door property.

Murchas is an attractive village that sits on a promontory at the edge of the beautiful Lecrin Valley. This area is known as the Valley of Happiness or the Valley of Oranges, as the area around here is filled with orange trees. Neighbouring Talará has a good selection of bars, shops, a pharmacy, doctor’s clinic and other commercial enterprises; the village is also the administrative hub for the Lecrin municipality.

The Lecrin Valley lies off the motorway that runs from the coast to Granada, so both the beach and the city are easily accessible. The ski resort in the Sierra Nevada is about an hour’s drive from Murchas, making this area a very popular year-round tourism destination.