- rooms 21
- bathrooms 1
- bedrooms 8
- area 550 Sqm
The property is located in a dominant position, with respect to the hamlet of Massa and Cabernardi which is part of the municipality of Sassoferrato, province of Ancona. The town is positioned near the Central Apennines and is a few kilometers from the Gola della Rossa, the Frasassi Caves and the Monastery of Fonte Avellana famous for hosting Dante Alighieri. The excellent temperate climate is also given for its proximity to the sea, about 35 km and on hot summer days in this place you can enjoy a pleasant coolness. The property consists of several intersecting buildings and was built in several eras. Due to its features and recent studies it has become known that part of the house rests on an old Roman villa, the semi-central impluvium for the collection of water is the testimony of this. The manor house is the oldest in the country and occupies an area of 240 square meters for three floors plus a cave carved into the sandstone. The ground floor is divided into 9 rooms, there is a large cellar with barrels, a room with the eighteenth-century press, woodshed and room with oven, laundry room with fireplace at the corner. From the main entrance connected to the shops by various doors on a corridor, we find at the bottom a large access staircase to the first floor where we find 12 rooms. We are welcomed by the dining room with fireplace, the large and bright kitchen, a room with access to the well that draws from the cistern located in the basement next to the impluvium (rainwater collection as in Roman times), convenient for all the various activities of the house. The large dining room with fireplace, plus a storage room, a chapel with altar and a corridor on which there are 3 other rooms. On the second floor another large living room and 4 large rooms. The property includes outside a courtyard at the back of about 1000 square meters. and from which you can access the 25000 of partly arable land and that reach the provincial road that comes from San Lorenzo in Campo. The property includes a small plot of 500 square meters on the front with the possibility of using it as a parking lot. On the farmyard behind we also find a barn of about 80sqm. and the woodshed.
