POTENTIAL

A HOUSE OR A BUSINESS...?
The Bar Time & Place has been in existence since the middle sixties. It occupies the ground floor of a three storied building - the top two levels are for private dwelling at the moment. The building is very old, thought to be from the mid fifteen century - before the Reconquesta when the Moors still controlled this part of Spain. It is considered so historically unique it has been listed as of Historical Interest - it's a listed building. This in turn means that the front of the building cannot be radically changed but as it so beautiful it is unlikely anyone would want to and it would be quite difficult anyway as the walls are often more than a metre thick.

Potentially it could be continued as the bar it was for the last forty years or more - or with a simple conversion, as a beautiful private dwelling place. This would mean removing the bar counter and associated equipment from the ground floor, moving the kitchen there from where it is on the middle floor and then doing with it however you wish.

The room where the main kitchen is at the moment could then be returned to the second bedroom it once was. Last year an en suite bathroom was installed immediately behind it in anticipation of this happening.

But if you wished to continue it as a bar, then an opening licence would be required. This would involve additional wiring onto the new wiring completed this June (2010) as part of a new electrical contract. A survey by an architect and other modifications would probably be needed, which would cost, at a guess, about €5000.

It has never had an opening licence despite it has been a bar from the mid sixties. This was because it was before such licensing was introduced in this part of Spain - so in the thirty years I've had it, an opening licence was never needed.

A further point, it is also unlikely that special disabled bathrooms or wheel chair access would be required as the great majority of bars in the village, even those recently given opening licences, do not require them (I can't think of one). The reason given is that the streets are deemed too steep to allow wheel chair use. The Plaza del Flores is no exception.

A sunrise seen from the top terrace...