1520 Willina Lane

Single-story California cottage of 1920 on a level lot in the Hedgerow District of Montecito, about 1,761 square feet under a composition roof on a raised foundation. Hardwood, carpet and tile run through the rooms. There is a fireplace in the living room, a formal dining room, a laundry room, and a primary bedroom on the ground floor, which is the only floor the house has. Two bedrooms, two full baths and a half. Heat is forced air, and the record enters the cooling as none. The house stands detached, with no common walls, and the county puts the parcel at 8,712 square feet, fenced on every side.

Willina Lane is the last turn in a set of directions that comes off San Ysidro Road, then San Leandro Lane, then Miramar Avenue, with Monte Vista Lane as the cross street. The parcel sits outside any city limits, in Santa Barbara County, zoned R-1, carried on the assessor's roll as 009-204-009. That roll is the interesting part: it puts more than twice as much value on the land as on everything standing on it. Montecito Union School is half a mile off, Laguna Blanca's lower school two tenths of a mile, Crane Country Day six tenths. The house last changed hands in the spring of 2000.

The lot is level and fenced on every side, and the listing calls the landscaping verdant, so the garden reads as one continuous room rather than a run of terraces. A pool and an outdoor spa sit in it, with an open patio and a porch off the house. There is a separate pool house of 317 square feet, which is where a guest room, an office or a studio goes. Parking is two uncovered spaces. The listing's view field says only Setting, which is the accurate word for it: what you look at here is the garden. The listing puts beach access, the Rosewood Miramar, the Upper and Lower Villages, and the restaurants and shops that come with them a short stroll away.

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