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Lot 07 · New to market

Casa Miramonte

Picacho Lane, Montecito · Guide $8,450,000

A modern stone-fronted house lit at night behind a low wall
A sitting room opening through glass onto the garden
The sitting room, first light
A bright dining space with plants and a long table
Kitchen, north wing
A bedroom with sliding glass doors onto the hills
Principal bedroom
A single-storey house with a brick drive and clipped hedges
The olive courtyard

The entry

One hundred and twenty words, signed.

A long stone house of 1962 on the upper lane, drawn around a courtyard of three olive trees. The sitting room faces south through full-height glass, and the channel is visible from the second step of the pool. The kitchen was rebuilt in 2019 and the roof relaid the same year.

Three owners since it was built, the last since 1998. The lane is private and unmade; you will hear a car arrive before you see it, and nothing else. Morning sun reaches the courtyard by eight and the west terrace loses it at six in September.

Claire HavilonWalked the house on 14 August 2026

Provenance

Three owners, sixty-four years.

Deeds, the 2019 invoices and the surveyor’s drawings are held with the file and copied to your solicitor on the day an offer is agreed.

How a sale runs
  1. 1962

    Built for the Marchetti family

    Designed by Lyle Ganz, who drew nine houses on this lane between 1958 and 1970.

  2. 1984

    West terrace and pool added

    The pool sits on the original tennis lawn; the retaining wall is the court's own.

  3. 1998

    Bought by the present owners

    Twenty-eight years in one family, and the reason the planting has matured as it has.

  4. 2019

    Kitchen rebuilt, roof relaid

    Both by Ferreira & Sons of Carpinteria, with the invoices retained.

The house, room by room

What is where

Areas measured, not estimated

  • 01Entrance hall and olive courtyard640 sq ft
  • 02Sitting room, south, full-height glass780 sq ft
  • 03Kitchen and morning room, rebuilt 2019690 sq ft
  • 04Dining room, opening to the west terrace430 sq ft
  • 05Principal bedroom, dressing room and bath820 sq ft
  • 06Four further bedrooms, each with a bath1,340 sq ft
  • 07Guest wing: bedroom, sitting room, kitchenette1,640 sq ft
  • 08Garaging for three, with a workshop1,290 sq ft

Said plainly

What a viewing will show you anyway.

We would rather you read it here than find it on a second visit.

  • The lane is unmade. It is private and shared by nine houses; the surface is gravel and is re-laid by the owners together, most recently in 2024.
  • The guest wing needs a kitchen. The kitchenette is original to 1984 and reads as such. Budget for it.
  • The west terrace loses the sun at six in September. Earlier in December. The courtyard keeps it longest.
  • There is no cellar. Storage is in the garage workshop, which is dry but unheated.

Viewing

Accompanied, and about an hour.

Claire conducts every viewing of this house. Usually within forty-eight hours, Monday to Saturday, and never in a group.

  • Lot07 of 12
  • Guide$8,450,000
  • PartnerClaire Havilon · (805) 555-0143

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