Property for sale in Tuscany: villa near Lucca needing restoration

A detached villa needing restoration, in a village outside Lucca - this property for sale in Tuscany offers superb potential.

Set in a country village just 10 minutes outside the walled city of Lucca, the house is laid out on three floors, and has three entrances, two from the front garden and one leading onto the back lawn. The property is accessed through a gate in the high stone garden wall separating the property from the village lane.

The front garden is around 80 square metres, with two front doors leading into the house. The main door opens into a very large, totally original country kitchen. Behind the kitchen is a series of original cantinas, with access to the larger back garden. Off the kitchen is a stairwell leading to the upper floors.

On the first floor are several large rooms, with access to a long loggia overlooking the back garden. There is a second staircase leading to the second floor, which has been divided into three rooms. A back staircase from one of the rooms on the first floor leads down to an independent apartment composed of a kitchen/living room, bathroom and two small bedrooms. This independent apartment has access to the front garden only. A doorway could easily be reopened to connect the apartment to the ground floor of the main part of the property.

Some of the floors are original, although some of these need levelling, but the structure, including the dividing floors is very good and has received some updating in the past 20 years. The structure should be considered, in any event, a near total restoration. The back garden of some 800 square metres is mostly flat lawn.

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