French Maison de Maitre for Sale
7 - 8 bed house and large studio, barn and outbuildings on 3 acres in South West France.
€299,950 to include agent fees, excluding taxes and notaire fees
425m2 of living space + more than 300m2 outbuildings
We’re sad that our time in this house needs to come to an end, but work and family commitments mean that the time is right for us to say goodbye to our lovely home. Our children have loved growing up surrounded by so much nature, and we have some wonderful memories of the 12 years we’ve had in this home. We’ve developed something of a wildlife haven, here, and - from star-gazing to wildlife watching - we’ve all enjoyed our time here immensely.
€299,950 to include agent fees, excluding taxes and notaire fees
425m2 of living space + more than 300m2 outbuildings
We’re sad that our time in this house needs to come to an end, but work and family commitments mean that the time is right for us to say goodbye to our lovely home. Our children have loved growing up surrounded by so much nature, and we have some wonderful memories of the 12 years we’ve had in this home. We’ve developed something of a wildlife haven, here, and - from star-gazing to wildlife watching - we’ve all enjoyed our time here immensely.
The house and land is fully detached and enclosed from all neighbours, which seems quite hard to find in this area. We certainly searched long and hard to find it. The house has B&B potential or flexible accommodation for multi generation family living and/or working.
The hard work is already done for you. We've renovated the house and increased its energy efficiency up to a fabulous B rating, and decreased its carbon footprint to an excellent A rating. The house was F and G when we started the project.
The property comprises a stone-built three storey house. The date stone over the front door says 1876.
On the ground floor, there's an entrance hallway, 4 sunny, double bedrooms, a dressing room, a shower room, a large living room and 30m2+ dining kitchen, with a walk-in pantry. The first floor comprises 3 very large double bedrooms, a large open plan reception/library/games area and a large bathroom with double jacuzzi bath and a shower + steam cabinet with curved glass enclosure. The second floor is a lovely 120m2 open plan room with exposed beams and feature vaulted ceilings with windows to either side and a skylight.
Solid wood flooring throughout, apart from the kitchen, downstairs bathroom and entrance hallway which have tiles. Mix of new, made-to-measure hardwood double glazing with some original hardwood single glazed windows. The whole house feels very light and airy with plenty of natural sunlight filling each space.
There's a lovely wood fired Esse heating/cooking range in the kitchen which also heats the rest of the house via vintage cast iron radiators. There's a double-faced woodburner between the dining area and living room. There's a solar system for the hot water (which is also heated by the wood fired Esse and with electricity as a back-up). There's a rain collection and storage system with potential for an off-grid system. Loads of roofs to collect water, and plenty of South-facing sloping roof for more solar panels.
Adjoining the main house is a huge Studio of approx 50m2 with concrete floor and wooden double glazed windows and glazed door. An approx 90m2 concrete floored barn is attached to the studio, reaching to double-storied height, with additional approx 50m2 mezzanine over the studio room. These two spaces are currently used as an office and sculptor’s studio.
We have a gated driveway leading to a garage, a huge open-sided hangar, and 2 stone outbuildings with gîte renovation potential, and an old smoke house. There's other outbuildings, an old orchard of about an acre, a large but somewhat neglected vegetable plot, and wooded and grassed areas totalling about 3 acres in all. We have walnut, cherry, peach, apricot, medlar, mulberry, plum, greengage, apple, pear and quince trees, along with a huge old lime tree that provides a wonderful shaded area near the house in the summer. The lands feature lawned areas along with various areas of coppice trees planted approx 10 years ago, including ash, field maple, beech, birch, hazel, wild cherry, hornbeam, willow and rowan.
The bushes near the house are teeming with birds, bats, bees and other wildlife. There's a family of Redstarts who return to bring up the next generation, each year. The Hoopoes have started to become quite friendly, over the years, even perching on the bedroom windowsills from time to time. We sometimes have deer visiting us in the coppice trees. There's a huge expanse of sky around us, and on Summer evenings we can watch Mars and Saturn appear in the night sky, just around the time the bats come out to play and the barn owl swoops over our heads to go hunting. One night, we watched a supply shuttle dock at the International Space Station right over our heads - we could hardly believe our eyes.
The house is on the edge of a small hamlet with no immediate neighbours, but friendly folk nearby. This department is the second sunniest region in France. A few minutes' drive to the nearest town, 40 minutes to the nearest city (with airport with links to UK + TGV station) and 1.5 hours to glorious endless sandy beaches at La Rochelle and Royan.
The hard work is already done for you. We've renovated the house and increased its energy efficiency up to a fabulous B rating, and decreased its carbon footprint to an excellent A rating. The house was F and G when we started the project.
The property comprises a stone-built three storey house. The date stone over the front door says 1876.
On the ground floor, there's an entrance hallway, 4 sunny, double bedrooms, a dressing room, a shower room, a large living room and 30m2+ dining kitchen, with a walk-in pantry. The first floor comprises 3 very large double bedrooms, a large open plan reception/library/games area and a large bathroom with double jacuzzi bath and a shower + steam cabinet with curved glass enclosure. The second floor is a lovely 120m2 open plan room with exposed beams and feature vaulted ceilings with windows to either side and a skylight.
Solid wood flooring throughout, apart from the kitchen, downstairs bathroom and entrance hallway which have tiles. Mix of new, made-to-measure hardwood double glazing with some original hardwood single glazed windows. The whole house feels very light and airy with plenty of natural sunlight filling each space.
There's a lovely wood fired Esse heating/cooking range in the kitchen which also heats the rest of the house via vintage cast iron radiators. There's a double-faced woodburner between the dining area and living room. There's a solar system for the hot water (which is also heated by the wood fired Esse and with electricity as a back-up). There's a rain collection and storage system with potential for an off-grid system. Loads of roofs to collect water, and plenty of South-facing sloping roof for more solar panels.
Adjoining the main house is a huge Studio of approx 50m2 with concrete floor and wooden double glazed windows and glazed door. An approx 90m2 concrete floored barn is attached to the studio, reaching to double-storied height, with additional approx 50m2 mezzanine over the studio room. These two spaces are currently used as an office and sculptor’s studio.
We have a gated driveway leading to a garage, a huge open-sided hangar, and 2 stone outbuildings with gîte renovation potential, and an old smoke house. There's other outbuildings, an old orchard of about an acre, a large but somewhat neglected vegetable plot, and wooded and grassed areas totalling about 3 acres in all. We have walnut, cherry, peach, apricot, medlar, mulberry, plum, greengage, apple, pear and quince trees, along with a huge old lime tree that provides a wonderful shaded area near the house in the summer. The lands feature lawned areas along with various areas of coppice trees planted approx 10 years ago, including ash, field maple, beech, birch, hazel, wild cherry, hornbeam, willow and rowan.
The bushes near the house are teeming with birds, bats, bees and other wildlife. There's a family of Redstarts who return to bring up the next generation, each year. The Hoopoes have started to become quite friendly, over the years, even perching on the bedroom windowsills from time to time. We sometimes have deer visiting us in the coppice trees. There's a huge expanse of sky around us, and on Summer evenings we can watch Mars and Saturn appear in the night sky, just around the time the bats come out to play and the barn owl swoops over our heads to go hunting. One night, we watched a supply shuttle dock at the International Space Station right over our heads - we could hardly believe our eyes.
The house is on the edge of a small hamlet with no immediate neighbours, but friendly folk nearby. This department is the second sunniest region in France. A few minutes' drive to the nearest town, 40 minutes to the nearest city (with airport with links to UK + TGV station) and 1.5 hours to glorious endless sandy beaches at La Rochelle and Royan.