Description

Tucked into a hilltop hamlet that has stood since the eleventh century, in the green folds of the Casentino — the quiet eastern corner of Tuscany where the Arno is still young and the forests run almost to the door — this restored stone house opens onto a soft garden of lavender, fruit trees and a long wooden table set for slow lunches. The view drifts past terracotta rooftops to the hills beyond, and the only real soundtrack is birdsong, church bells and the occasional voice from a neighbouring courtyard.

Originally a stable in the old village, the building was taken back to its stone walls and chestnut beams in a careful 2014 renovation and rebuilt with honest, well-chosen materials — warm wood floors, a clean white-plastered shell, a generous tiled bathroom with a walk-in shower, a tucked-away kitchen and a luminous attic bedroom under the open pitch of the roof. Across three bedrooms and two bathrooms, the 140 square metres feel calm and uncluttered: a house that is ready to be lived in rather than worked on.