Here is a property with a sought-after style located exactly where you wouldn't expect it! This stone property, with rural origins due to its large outbuildings, is not agricultural in the architecture of its house, inspired as it is by the bourgeois town houses of the 1930’s. Well hidden at the end of a dead-end hamlet of just three dwellings, in a small village to the South-East of Haute-Vienne county, it awaits the person who will finish converting it, use its potential to make a gîte, for example, or quite simply the person wanting to enjoy the magical peace of the place in which it has flourished for several decades. Will you be that person?

The house
Typical of this type of home, there is a central entrance hall with an entrance (main and secondary) on either side of the building. The main entrance is on the South-facing garden side. Past the canopied porch, a landing has the staircase going up to the upper floors and that of the cellar just below. The landing of the secondary entrance has been converted into a shower room with a toilet at the same time blocking the access door to the hamlet street on the north side. To the right of the entrance, the double aspect kitchen is fitted out in a rustic style. A built-in fireplace heats the house thanks to heat distribution ducts, while additional electric radiators are also positioned in each room. To the left of the entrance, a double aspect living room is raised over a cellar, with an open fireplace at the junction of the walls. A wood (or pellet) burner could also be fitted in this room. On the 1st floor, a North-facing landing, has light brought in by a window and with its staircase to the attic, leads to two bedrooms, both with built-in cupboards and open fireplaces. Between the bedrooms, behind the landing, a South-facing cloakroom, with a window on the garden side and a door to either bedroom, could be converted into a small shower room with a toilet.

Above, no wasted attic space, but a real open-plan attic with a roof window as well as Velux windows, just waiting to be converted! The natural slate roof is insulated from the inside with glass wool, but the eaves will have to be drylined if the space is converted. 

The house is immediately habitable but could benefit from the suggestions made above and will require the installation of a septic tank that meets standards. 

Beautiful and large barns
The outbuildings of this property are its real highlight. Forming a courtyard around the house, there is a first Limousin-style barn opposite the house of 36’ x 26’ on the ground with two storage areas (ca. 26’ x 13’ each) above the two stables, one of which has been converted into a workshop. Adjoining this barn, pigsties (ca. 26’ x 13’ on the ground floor) with a storage attic above. At right angles to this first building, a second Limousin barn (ca. 59’ x23’) with an open barn and stable and a storage area (ca. 23’ x 17’) above the stable.

A varied and well-maintained garden
The garden with a surface area of almost an acre is entirely and properly fenced in, supplemented with hedges in places. It is very well maintained and consists of a flat lawn with a few ornamental trees and flower beds between the buildings. Behind the large barn, a flat mini orchard could accommodate other fruit trees. On the south side, behind the second barn, a hedge of large trees begins the second part of the garden which gently slopes down to the river below. The land does not touch the river, because an agricultural plot of only about sixty feet separates you from it, but you can clearly hear the relaxing sound of the water nearby.

The peace is royal
You are in a small hamlet of just 3 houses! An idyllic place without being overlooked, part of a small village a few minutes from the shopping villages of Châteauneuf-la-Forêt, La Croisille sur Briance and Saint-Germain-les-Belles, 10 minutes from the Saint Germain les Belles train station, 35 minutes from Limoges’ centre and 45 minutes from its airport. Paris is about a 4 ½ hour drive away.