The house at the pool edge, limestone and glass
The outdoor pool below the double-height glass wall
The pool, loungers and the house behind under a full sun
The dining table on the lawn with the pool beyond
The pool seen through olive branches

The Field
House

Safi, Malta. Three hundred square metres of limestone and glass, standing alone in the fields three kilometres from the runway.

from €24,900 the week, for ten

A house built around its water

Five double bedrooms, arranged around a living room that rises the full height of the house and opens its entire southern wall onto the terrace.

The pool lies outside, long and rectangular, cut into the lawn behind a limestone deck with slatted cabanas shading the beds along its edge. Indoors there is a sauna and a hot tub, which is what makes the house work in February as well as in July.

Beyond the terrace the lawn runs unbroken to the boundary wall — room for twenty to eat outside, or for nobody to be within earshot of anybody else. Showers are set into the stone flank of the house, where you come in from the pool.

Sleeps
Ten, in five double rooms
Floor area
300 m²
Pools
Three — one outdoor, two in
Wellness
Sauna and hot tub
Kitchen
Fully fitted, with a dining terrace
Outside
Terrace, balcony, barbecue
Airport
3 km
Valletta
12 km
The outdoor pool, limestone deck and loungers on the lawn

Two houses, joined

One half is raw Maltese limestone — a living room two storeys high with a timber-slatted ceiling, a mezzanine running across it, and a vaulted passage of bare stone leading through to the kitchen. The other half is marble, glass and a black spiral stair, lit from a long skylight. They meet in the middle and the join is the best thing in the building.

The double-height living room in bare limestone, with the mezzanine above The second living room, marble and glass under a long skylight
The vaulted stone passage through to the kitchen The black spiral stair between floors The long dining table beside the open kitchen
The stone living room from the gallery, looking out to the pool

Water indoors

The first is a lap pool under a skylight, in smooth plaster and travertine, behind a perforated wall that drops coins of light onto the surface all afternoon. The second sits in a vaulted room of bare stone with a timber ceiling, cooler and darker, with a door that opens straight onto the terrace. Neither depends on the weather, which on this island matters from November to March.

The indoor lap pool beneath its skylight and perforated wall The second indoor pool, in a vaulted room of bare limestone

Where you sleep

Five double rooms. The bathrooms are not down a corridor — they open straight off the bedrooms behind glass, and one of them has a black tub set in front of a window that holds nothing but fields and sky.

A bedroom with its shower open behind glass A bedroom looking through to the bathroom A bedroom with mirrored wall and hanging lights
A freestanding black bath in front of a window over the fields A travertine bathroom with a rain shower

Let by the week

Saturday to Saturday, not by the night. A week is what this house is for: the pools, the kitchen, the long lunch that turns into the evening, the Wednesday you give up and drive to Gozo. One arrival, one departure and one clean is also what keeps the rate where it is.

from €24,900

Seven nights, the whole house

Ten guests across five double rooms.

€2,490 each for the week.

€356 each a night, with the pools, the sauna and the lawn in it.

Rather less than a good hotel room on this island, and you get the island to yourselves.

The rate moves with the season and the week. Tell us your Saturday and we send a firm total, held for 48 hours.

The lawn running the length of the house, with outdoor showers set into the limestone

Safi

A village of eight hundred people in the south of Malta, at the line where the island stops being a city and turns back into fields. The house stands on its own at the edge of it.

The airport is three kilometres off. You land, and twenty minutes later you are in the water — which on a Friday night flight with children is worth more than any view. Valletta is twelve kilometres north.

Marsaxlokk and its Sunday fish market are ten minutes east. The Blue Grotto is a quarter of an hour west, and the Dingli cliffs a little beyond that. Gozo is an hour and a ferry, and worth the whole day.

Check-in
From 3pm
Check-out
Until 11am
Tell us your arrival time in advance
Minimum stay
Seven nights
Smoking
Not allowed
Parties and events
Not allowed
Pets
Not allowed
Children
Welcome, at any age
No cots or extra beds
Age to check in
No minimum
Staff
None in the house

Ask about a week

Tell us the Saturday you want and who is coming. Within one working day you get the dates confirmed and a firm total, held for 48 hours. Nothing is taken before you have both.

Payment is by bank transfer. Give us the name on the account you are sending from, and quote the reference we send you if your bank lets you — that is how we match your money to your week.

If you would rather talk it through: +1 509 768 2249.