Property Highlights
| Beautifully Restored |
Great House |
| Superb Tropical Grounds |
Guest Cottage |
| Woodwork Shop |
Gate House |
| Comprehensive Kennel Facility |
Garden Center |
| Back Up Generator |
Private Location |
Property Description
UNDER OFFER
A peaceful elegant retreat in the eastern hills of Barbados, refreshed by trade winds and showered by rainfall to create a high canopy and lush understory. It is the product of ten years careful design and exquisite workmanship.
There is simply no other property like it.
Located in the parish of St Joseph on the east side of the island, this exceptional property extends over 6 acres with extensive fully mature tropical gardens. It is situated in the midst of The Easy Hall sugar cane plantation and is near cliffs overhanging a vista of the entire northeast coast. There are few neighbors and a feeling of complete privacy.
It is approximately 7 miles from Bridgetown, and a similar distance from GrantlyAdamsAirport and the West Coast.
The dramatic beaches of the east coast are five minutes away and they provide miles of uninterrupted beach walks and bathing in pools created by coral formations.
Easy Hall is unique in Barbados and the Caribbean. Traditional, understated elegance of exquisite taste, it incorporates the most spectacular gardens in an architecturally historical setting.
The property has been completely remodeled and designed to protect the architectural integrity of the entire site whilst incorporating present day standards of the highest quality. These standards have been applied throughout the decade long restoration and remodeling project with peerless construction standards using (for example) Vermont slate, with all fastenings of stainless, copper or brass throughout, and with services, back up systems and site wide drainage and waste processing second to none.
The plantation house and property is protected by an impressive six foot traditional coral stone wall further protected by bougainvillea. Among five, there are two main gated entrances, each leading to separate unconnected entry yards.
One gate provides vehicular and pedestrian access to the main house via a coral paved driveway, while the second opens to another coral drive system to access a double garage within the gate house which houses, among others, the estate office, laundry, storage, records and fresh rainwater storage between ground and basement levels. Separate living quarters for staff or guests occupy the upper level.
The Great House
The main residence is on a single level. The principal entrance of the house is through Palladian arches and a sunrise staircase into a marble floor entrance foyer. Mahogany louvred doors lead from the foyer into a double reception room with sitting and dining areas and beyond to the kitchen, guest suite and master bedroom.
All woodwork and masonry from basic trusses and roof systems and structural elements, to finely finished study furniture in mahogany and purple heart in the Great House, to the huge plantation kitchen table and modern chopping block work centre in Canadian maple, with all doors, windows, transoms and surrounds in mahogany, to the tunnel that leads to the top of the jungled hillside from the Great House, has been designed, manufactured and installed at Easy Hall by the present staff of joiners and masons and others. A basement level, fully clad in coral stone contains utility, storage and play areas and a surprise tunnel to the outside.
The Accomodation in the Great House
Entrance Hall, double reception room with sitting and formal dining areas, study, magnificent kitchen with living and dining areas, cloakroom, interior gallery.
Master bedroom suite, guest bedroom suite with sitting room and private bath, trellised terrace.
Extensive lower level with games room and numerous storage areas.
Carriage Guest House
Reception Room, kitchenette, two bedrooms and bathroom, additional sleeping alcove, hidden child's playroom, separate gym room.
Gate House
Living Quarters: Sitting room, kitchen, trellised terrace, two bedrooms and bath.
Entry Level: Receiption area, air-conditioned office, bath, entry to two-car garage with built-in storage, staff bath and separate laundry and drying rooms. Lower level air-conditioned storage area. Property includes exensive wood workshops, kennels, gazebo, ornamental pond and garden centre. Outstanding, well-established tropical gardens.
Gardens and Grounds
The outstanding tropical gardens at Easy Hall support a wide variety of indigenous and exotic flora. Numerous coral stone pathways provide access around the garden including the centrally located gazebo and a small ornamental pond that creates the impression of a Japanese garden. Beyond the pond is an area of garden given over to natural regeneration jungle, which is also the location of the beehives. The Easy Hall designed and built covered swing seat is strategically located for multiple views of jungle, pond, orchard and rolling countryside.
A gardener's delight, the substantial plant nursery with garden staff facilities provides Easy Hall with the unusual ability to regenerate its own plants from seedling to maturity and so to expand its magnificent garden.
The gardens are fully drained and irrigated. The sophisticated irrigation system is supplied by a ring main from a discreetly located pump house. The ring main additionally provides strategically located "ground level" pressurized connection points for supplementary watering and fire prevention.
Located over 900 feet above sea level, the property benefits from its own microclimate with a higher than average rainfall that sustains the wonderfully diverse tropical garden.
Ancillary Buildings
The property also includes a wood workshop (incorporating both joinery and finishing processes), which was used in the rebuilding of Easy Hall, and has its own-trained craftsmen who produce not only mahogany doors and windows but also the custom furniture that is part of the Easy Hall lifestyle. In addition there is an extensive modern kennel building on two levels with its own veterinary facilities and state of the art operating theatre.
The property has its own sustainable back up system for electricity (via a 150 KVA, 50 Hz, 3-phase prime Caterpillar generator) and water. Easy Hall's rain collection system and 'sub category' sewage treatment system are comprehensive. The total capacity of the property's rain water storage is approximately 86,000 gallons. Its security system, both electronic and physical, is the most thorough in the island.
Sale Price : BDS$12,000,000 / US$6,000,000
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