House for sale 5+1 • 178 m² without real estateKöln Bickendorf Nordrhein-Westfalen 50827

Beautiful historic courtyard complex as a single-family home, sustainably and ecologically modernized, with a large landscaped courtyard, parking space, and a park-like, secluded, spacious natural garden featuring a garden house, pond, and sauna.

The perfect new home for people who want to live naturally, love old buildings and gardens, yet don’t want to forego the advantages of city life. In this property, everything is possible. Here, body, mind, and soul can relax, and both people and animals feel equally at home.

An oasis right in the middle of the big city! As soon as you enter the beautiful courtyard, you feel as if you’re on vacation. The limewashed facade with mullioned windows, the dormers, and abundant greenery give this house a very special charm.

The house is L-shaped and has two floors: a ground floor and an upper floor with sloping ceilings. In total, the house has six rooms—two downstairs and four upstairs.

On the ground floor, you can either go right through the spacious kitchen into the bright living room with two large floor-to-ceiling double doors leading to the terrace in the natural garden, or go left into the guest/work area, which features a separate guest bathroom and a small kitchenette.

A beautiful wooden staircase leads you to the upper floor, where on the left a large attic room with dormers and skylights awaits. On the right, a large open space leads toward the bedroom with an adjacent comfort bathroom and a walk-in closet.

From the bedroom, you look down into the garden with old trees, organic herb beds, flowering shrubs, and bamboo. In the center of the garden stands a large masonry garden house (approximately 40 m²), currently used as a shed and stable, which could easily be converted into a hobby room or studio.

Behind the garden house lies the large natural pond and, finally, the garden sauna with an outdoor shower.

Ground Floor:

• Entrance hall

• Broom closet

• Storage room

• Guest room with kitchenette

• Guest bathroom with shower, toilet, washing machine, and washbasin (completely redone in 2022)

• Fitted kitchen from 2023 with a gas stove and induction hob, remaining completely in the house

• Living room with two large double-wing floor-to-ceiling terrace doors to the garden

Upper Floor:

• Office/children’s room with skylights

• Built-in wardrobes in the hallway

• Large passage room

• Bathroom with shower, toilet, double sink with a large custom-made base cabinet, and double bathtub (completely redone in 2022)

• Walk-in closet

• Bedroom

The house was originally built between 1850 and 1870 and was completely core refurbished and modernized around 1990. In the following years, it was regularly maintained. In 2015, a new gas boiler with two separate heating circuits (underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs) was installed, and during the renovation of the bathrooms and kitchens, the water and electrical lines were renewed in 2022–2023, including heavy current connections to the garden house and sauna, as well as preparation for a wallbox option in the courtyard.

An absolute rarity in Cologne is the large garden, which adjoins other gardens on the left, right, and at the rear. If you wish to keep pets such as cats or chickens in the garden, that is completely feasible. Squirrels, songbirds, and hedgehogs also thrive in the expansive green space.

Location:

Cologne Northwest, District Ehrenfeld, Neighborhood Bickendorf, near the Rochusplatz U-Bahn station, on a quiet side street off Venloer Straße.

The U-Bahn and all daily shops as well as restaurants are accessible within a 2–3 minute walk. The highway is 3 km away to the Köln-Nord interchange (A57/A1) or to the Bocklemünd exit (A4). Parks, schools, daycare centers, and a swimming pool are all within a 1 km walking radius.

The special charm of the house arises from the rustic, country-house style plastered walls and wooden floors. During the renovation, only natural materials were used; together with wall thicknesses of up to 45 cm, this creates an especially pleasant indoor climate. Additionally, the green roof provides insulation in both summer and winter, shielding against heat and cold.

Since the house is L-shaped, there is a sloping roof on the upper level at the rear towards the garden in the direction of the bedroom.

The basic structure of the house, featuring seven dormers, is listed as a historic monument. As a result, you can benefit from tax concessions if you later implement maintenance measures. In coordination with the monument preservation office, you can claim up to 90% of these costs on your taxes over a period of 10 years.