Family villa with garden in Het Zoute, beside the IJzerpark 8300 Knokke-Heist Knokke

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Detached family villa near the IJzerpark in Knokke-Het Zoute: three bedrooms, garden on all sides, terrace, parking. To be renovated.

Highlights

Plot of circa 924 m²
Garden surrounding the house
Detached villa, free on all four sides
Sunny orientation
Terrace adjoining the living rooms
Three bedrooms and one bathroom
140 m² living area
Several private parking spaces
Quiet footpath without through traffic
IJzerpark, Driehoeksplein, Albertplein and beach on foot

Exclusively for sale through Immo Brown.

Along the coast there are two kinds of house: the one where a family stays, and the one to which it returns summer after summer. Villa Patiko belongs to the second. It stands near the IJzerpark, on one of the footpaths of Het Zoute, where through traffic never arrives and the houses withdraw behind their planting. This is not an address one passes by chance; one comes here because one lives here.

The layout is that of a family home rather than a house built to be shown. Some 140 m² of living area, three bedrooms and a single bathroom, arranged as companionable rooms that face the greenery. Windows draw the garden inside. Light travels with the day, from the morning side through to the late afternoon, when the sun withdraws behind the planting into the garden.

Kitchen and dining area open straight onto the outside, and that is more than an architectural detail. It determines how the house is used in summer: the table shifts to the terrace, the doors stay open, and the distinction between inside and out dissolves in the months when this place is lived in most. The terrace continues directly from the living rooms and looks out across the garden.

That garden is the reason a family returns. It wraps around the house, slopes gently and is green at every façade, which means no neighbour ever comes into view and children play out of sight of the road. The plot measures roughly 924 m². In a district where plots generally run narrow, this is exceptional room, and the villa stands free upon it on all four sides. Light therefore arrives from every direction, and no elevation has to contend with an adjoining property.

The footpath at the door completes the picture. Too narrow for cars with no business there, it is used on foot and by bicycle. The car therefore stays where it is on arrival, on one of the several private parking spaces beside the house. Everything else happens on foot: down to the beach in the morning, later to the Driehoeksplein, and to the Albertplein for the shops, the baker and the terraces. The IJzerpark lies around the corner and lends the neighbourhood its green, residential character.

Renovation is required. That is not an objection but a condition, and in this instance an opportunity. Whoever takes the house on inherits an atmosphere already established: the scale, the garden, the orientation and the setting are fixed. Renovation brings comfort to contemporary standards and allows the layout to be tuned to a new family without losing the character of the place. The size of the plot leaves room to go further, should that be wished: an extension towards the garden, an additional bedroom, a second bathroom. The structure imposes little, and the ground still less.

The house remains usable the whole year round, yet shows its true character in the months when a family settles in together. Few properties in Knokke allow those two lives to sit alongside one another.

Immo Brown
Kustlaan 271
8300 Knokke-Zoute
T +32 (0)50 620 820
info@immobrownknokke.be