Lot 07 · New to market
Casa Miramonte
Picacho Lane, Montecito · Guide $8,450,000
The sitting room, first light
Kitchen, north wing
Principal bedroom
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.
Walked the house on 14 August 2026
Measured
Drawn floor by floor by a licensed surveyor. The figure above is the figure in the contract.
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.
Built for the Marchetti family
Designed by Lyle Ganz, who drew nine houses on this lane between 1958 and 1970.
West terrace and pool added
The pool sits on the original tennis lawn; the retaining wall is the court’s own.
Bought by the present owners
Twenty-eight years in one family, and the reason the planting has matured as it has.
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
Said plainly
What a viewing will show you anyway.
We would rather you read it here than find it on a second visit.
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 kitchenette is original to 1984 and reads as such. Budget for it.
Earlier in December. The courtyard keeps it longest.
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.