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Mas El Regalo
The swimming pool at Mas El Regalo at golden hour, with a curved water feature in the stone wall, a row of olive trees in terracotta pots and three arched openings behind.

The Estate

A house built by the weather

Some 1,500 m² of stone, timber and shade, set in 112,000 m² of Mediterranean land above Ibi.

The principal house at Mas El Regalo near Ibi in Alicante: pale cut-stone walls, a corner tower with a dark conical roof, deep windows with wooden shutters and a crenellated extension, set among lawns, shrubs and mature trees under a clear Mediterranean sky.

The fabric

What stands here, and what it is made of.

The estate is a rural mas in the Alicante tradition: a principal house with thick stone walls, deep-set openings and shaded galleries, surrounded by the working buildings that agriculture once needed: store rooms, stables, terraces and dry-stone walls.

The surfaces are honest and worn. Nothing about the materials is decorative; everything was chosen because it lasted through summer heat and winter cold.

Reading the buildings

Four qualities worth protecting

Any future use of the estate has to work with these, not against them.

The main house

The oldest volume, with walls thick enough to hold the day’s heat out and the night’s cool in.

Shaded galleries

Covered thresholds that make the outdoors usable for most of the year and soften the glare of high summer.

Service buildings

Store rooms, stables and outbuildings that can be brought back into use without altering the profile of the estate.

Dry-stone terraces

The retaining walls that hold the almond terraces are themselves the oldest structure on the property.

Restoration

Repair before replacement

The intention is a restoration that is invisible in principle: local stone, lime mortar, traditional timber and no gesture that would not have been available to the people who built the place.

Modern services, water, power, heat and connectivity, are designed to disappear into the fabric, so that the estate reads as a building that has simply been well looked after.

The restored estate at Mas El Regalo near Ibi: a cream-plastered outbuilding with a terracotta tiled roof, dark wooden door and white downspout beside a paved driveway climbing through tall pine trees to the two-storey stone main house with wooden shutters.

Before and after

The comparison will be published as the works progress

Photographs of each room and elevation will be paired before and after restoration, so the work can be judged on its own terms rather than on intentions.

Historic country house at Mas El Regalo in Ibi, Alicante, before restoration: rustic stone ground floor with brick-trimmed arched windows and front door, plastered upper floor with brown wooden shutters, and a corner turret under a grey tiled roof, framed by mature pine trees.
Restored historic country house at Mas El Regalo in Ibi, Alicante, after renovation: cleaned stone and plastered façade with brick window surrounds, dark wooden shutters, corner tower with conical roof, wall lanterns, trimmed lawn and planted beds beneath a clear blue sky.
BeforeAfter

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In figures

What the estate is, in numbers

Buildings
≈ 1,500 m²
Land
≈ 112,000 m²
Woodland
Pine
Terraces
Almond and olive
First record
1886
Municipality
Ibi, Alicante

All figures are indicative and subject to verification by survey and due diligence.

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How the estate came to us

The documented history, the archival material and the decision to restore rather than replace are set out on the story page.

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