Day One – We See The House

Posted on May 31, 2026 by admin

These are photos of the house at the point of purchase. Definitely a “fixer-upper”!
The photos were quickly snapped with an iPhone so they are lacking in artistic quality and are not all straight. Sorry about that.

This will be a terrace
The yellow line marks the boundary
Cellar and old contents
Someone left a freezer
Unidentified stuff
Ivy covering one old barn
This will be a car port
Bedroom area
Two bedrooms
Just room for a double bed
Second Bedroom
Bedrooms ante-room
Existing bathroom in need of TLC
Sun porch in need of lintel replacement
Garden and view to the south
View to the west
Bedrooms corridor
Old smoke room to be the kitchen
Old smoke room with huge forno
Dining room with wall and ceiling to be removed
The capela next door
Old animal pens
This will be built up as a terrace
One of the outbuildings
Our garden with orange trees and vines
Our garden, the back of the house and the neighbouring house. Cammelia trea.
More outbuildings
Garden with orange trees
Old disused privy
Water tank – we think!
Garden and view to SW
Rear of outbuildings and entrance to animal shed
Animal sheds – probably pigs
Street view of the property. Roof in good nick but render needs repair.
Street entrance to the cellar
Our house on the left and the main street of the village
Corner of the house. Wall needs rendering
Cellar wall for rendering
House and cellar wall looking south
Garden wall and vines
Garden wall and vines
Rear of house and vines
Garden wall from SW
Bathroom and sun room wall with typical Portuguese sun shade
Definitely a rustic entrance
Outbuilding storage
Entrance to animal shed from street
This door needs a little work
This barn will be a garage
Half a roof
And only half a roof
Another view of what will e the garage
Turbines on the hill to SW. There are very old moinhos (windmills) up there
Garden with Orange trees and water tank
We think this is a water tank
This tap is why we think it’s a water tank – that and there are no doors!
Fuel bunker will be going
Outbildings
The outbuildings have concrete roofs
Local resident
There are vines all along the perimeter
There are vines all along the perimeter
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