Single-family detached house 142 m², excellent condition, Center, Hydra

SOLE AGENT - Sweet, calm, characterful 20th Century house with lots of charm, in a quiet Kamini neighbourhood, easy walk to the beach. Graceful, easy living architecture, designed to be comfortable and adaptable to suit both summer and winter seasons. The thick stone walls, deep window sills and internal wooden shutters aesthetically add character, but essentially are practical & effective natural measures incorporated by the original builders to insulate homes to keep them cool in the summer and snug in winter. With two bedrooms, one on each level, accommodating extra guests isn't a problem because the large sitting room is set up as a third bedroom as well. The house is arranged in a horseshoe around a large, very private entrance courtyard. The property also has a large lower garden as well as a flat roof terrace. From the top street entrance, next to a little bridge. the door opens to a very private courtyard in the centre of the house. Below the entrance there is the first of two freshwater cisternas. The street side of the courtyard is planted with lemon trees. The house forms a horseshoe shape around the courtyard, each side having double entrance doors off the courtyard. Taking the main hall entrance (as in the video), this space is ideal for a home study or work area, so long as you aren't distracted by the view from the window! Above the door to bedroom 1, you will see the 'Icon Stop'. Bedroom 1 is light and airy with high wooden ceiling and three windows. Across the hall from bedroom 1, you walk into what is currently used as a large sitting room (which also connects through double doors to the central room). Currently, this sitting room is set up with 2 single beds so it can be used as a third bedroom. The central room, joins the south and north sides of the house together (see my hand drawn plan at the end of the main gallery). It acts as a cross road within the house. This room can be entered from the middle double doors off the entrance courtyard, then opens to the sitting room (bed 3) to the right or the kitchen to the left. Opposite the doors from the courtyard, there's a back door and a trap door to conceal steps down to bedroom 2 (garden level). This room is currently being used as a small sitting room. The kitchen is traditionally laid out with attractive cupboards and plate racks along the back wall. The oven in the corner under the chimney hood is a gas oven and hob. There are two under-the-counter fridges. The shallow stone sink in the recessed window has a cupboard built in under it. An internal door, with a step, opens to a short hall, passing a separate WC before opening up into the shower room & washing machine. Both the WC and shower-cubicle have skylights (from the flat roof above). Double doors open to the entrance courtyard. Below the stone floor of the shower room, there is a 2nd cisterna. room. The outside areas are accessed via the lower garden street entrance or via the back door from the central room which opens midway in the west side elevation. Steps lead up from the central back door to the roof terrace or down to the lower garden. From the garden, double doors open to Bedroom 2 which is semi-subterranean. Behind the bed there is the wooden ladder/steps that lead up to the central room with its traditional trap door. In the corner next to the garden entrance of this bedroom, there is an opening with wooden doors that conceal the 1.5m crawl space under the oldest part of the house. The garden below the terrace has a few well-established trees and shrubs. And with its own street entrance, it means that anyone using the garden-level bedroom can come and go without disturbing anyone sleeping in the main house. Walking back up the side steps, passing the central room, you continue up to the roof terrace and the best views. The flat roof covers 2 of the 3 sides of the property and looks over the roof of the lower part of the house or down into the courtyard. The view is orientated north, so you have full sun on the terrace all day and pretty views east to west overlooking the village and sea at Kamini harbour and across to the mainland Peloponnese.