Nestled into a pretty wooded hillside with sweeping views across hilltops to the horizon and along a quiet lane of detached properties you'll find a very special home that offers masses of versatile space, including the chance to facilitate multi-generational living. From the front, this incredible home deceives you into thinking it's a standard, detached bungalow. But there's nothing standard about this house, it's actually an incredible and truly unique, substantial home that sprawls across four fabulous floors, offering seven bedrooms and four bathrooms, and hiding some wonderful surprises. There's a hidden lower floor that boasts a massive party room with a bar, kitchen, sauna and hot tub plus huge sliding glass doors out to the sizeable swimming pool. The next floor up is packed with bedrooms and bathrooms and a terrace with breathtaking views across the valley. The ground floor offers more bedrooms plus a generous and connected lounge and dining room plus a large kitchen diner that both open out onto another sun-drenched terrace with views. Finally, two bedrooms and a shower room occupy the loft space and outside can tempt you further with two garages, oodles of parking, covered BBQ area, and potting shed. This much-loved home is a retro gem that is now so rare to find in properties of this size and calibre. The cool retro vibe wafts through each of the levels and has been preserved as well as updated to allow a new owner to step straight in and enjoy living in these substantial spaces but for someone who likes to put their own interior stamp on a property, this huge house can deliver that opportunity too. The location is a perfect blend too. Tucked away from the world in a wooded area the location feels rural but actually offers easy access via main roads to a choice of local facilities and amenities at Abercycnon, Aberdare and Nelson, plus the Cyfarthfa Shopping Park just a few miles away on the outskirts of Merthyr Tydfil. In addition, the house is just minutes from the A470 and its direct route into Cardiff for extra work, social, sport and entertainment opportunities to the south, and north gets you to one of the most spectacular landscapes to explore in Wales - the Bannau Brycheiniog Brecon Beacons National Park. Walking and hiking, biking and riding, canoeing and kayaking surrounded by breathtaking scenery is on the doorstep from this wonderful home that offers a location to envy and versatile spaces to enjoy that can easily accommodate the lifestyle needs of a new owner, including playing host to the best pool parties in the area. STEP INSIDE: - Step inside this welcoming property and the hall greets you with light, space and the first glimpse of mid-century design via the staircase and wood panel feature walls. But before exploring the living levels of the house that include seven bedrooms, four bathrooms, study and utility room, there's a hidden lower level that is the party hub of this home calling you to visit immediately. It's a level that leads out onto the sizeable swimming pool and private garden from surely one of the best social hubs in the region - there's a kitchen, bar, and oodles of space for sofas and games as well as a wall of glass doors that slide open to invite party guests out to the swimming pool and outdoor BBQ area. But even as the party is in full swing there's more surprises to tempt guests, as well as be enjoyed every day by the lucky owner, and includes a sauna with dedicated dressing area and shower room and a hot tub accessed via the covered seating area by the pool. Imagine welcoming your family and friends, in large numbers, to come and party in this special space - it's an area of the house where wonderful lifelong memories are made and cherished. You could spend all day socialising on this hidden garden level but there's so much space above you, across three more storeys, to easily entice you to explore further, and the next level up is the lower ground floor offering three bedrooms, one with ensuite, and a family bathroom. It's the perfect level for guests to stay, and if they get a bit peckish during the night there's even a kitchen on this floor, ideal for making a midnight snack or a hasty breakfast in the morning if they are running late. This level can also boast a fabulous elevated terrace, situated on top of the party room below and accessed from the landing or main bedroom, and it's a bonus outdoor space created for relaxing and drinking in the incredible views. Up the stairs again and you arrive back on the ground floor, the level where you enter from the off-road parking at the front, and it's an area that happily offers a social hub at its core too. There's a formal dining room and spacious lounge with glass sliding doors out onto another terrace, again soaked in sunshine and special hilltop views. The two spaces are separated by a feature stone fireplace and a change in floor level in a broken-plan layout so dining and lounging have their own zones and are yet still connected. The sliding doors tempt you to linger and admire the view from the lounge but the door at the end of this comfortable and welcoming space teases you to keep exploring. Behind this door is a sizeable kitchen, easily able to accommodate a large dining table and even a duo of comfy chairs so the cook can have constant company and meal times can be social and relaxing. The kitchen has its own set of sliding doors to offer a seamless wander onto the terrace, and it's hard to resist, but there's even more to see in this substantial house. At the end of this ground floor level are two more bedrooms, a cloakroom and a handy storage cupboard next to one of the two front entrances this house can offer, making it an ideal candidate to facilitate multi-generational living. Finally, up to the top floor and the final two bedrooms, tucked away within the converted loft and away from the busier levels below. With a shower room on this level too, maybe a new owner will want to use the smaller bedroom as a sensational walk-in wardrobe to create a fabulous and private principal suite. That's one of the many special elements of this much-loved home - it can wrap itself around an owner with comfortable and quiet spaces and yet also provide incredible social areas too, plus easily morph itself to provide versatile spaces to suit a lucky new owner's lifestyle needs. Outside - Stepping outside into the rear garden is seamless via the wall of sliding glass doors of the lower ground floor party and games room; guests can effortlessly wander from indoor to outdoor to take a dip in the generous swimming pool or mingle with party guests. If the weather is favourable every day is like a holiday at this incredible property. Grab a lounger and relax next to the water with a book whilst sipping a cocktail for total peace and relaxation while admiring the rural view, or welcome all the family and friends who arrive looking to party the day, evening and, probably, the night away. The garden is as unique and sprawling as the house, with an area for cooking undercover at the outdoor BBQ area, a massive terrace created on the roof of the games room to set up alfresco dining on a large scale, and more intimate, undercover areas for enjoying the outdoor space, whatever the weather. Although close to local amenities the house is wrapped in breathtaking and panoramic views of the wooded hillsides that roll to the distant horizon that make it feel more rural than village. You could get lost in the mesmerising view as it changes through the day and the seasons, but the outdoor space has so much to offer there's a tour to complete. There's a fish pond to find, a garage to explore that includes an inspection pit, outdoor buildings that could happily host a workshop or studio, or both, a potting shed, a lawned area, plus access to the indoor hot tub and sauna that are added features that guests, as well as owners, will thoroughly enjoy. Of course, such a special home will frequently be receiving guests so the sizeable area for off-road parking is a welcome bonus as is the sizeable outdoor space and multiple terraces to facilitate, without doubt, the best parties in the area. 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