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Fully renovated 6 bed stone farmhouse,outbuildings and 1;5 acres.


€267,000Price: 
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Reference: 2567

Region: Brittany
Department: Ille-et-Vilaine
Nearest Sizable Town: Fougères
Location: Lower Normandy/Brittany border

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6 Bedroom Farmhouse - €267,000 (Agency fees included) - Location: Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine, Fougères : Lower Normandy/Brittany border
Bedrooms : 6
Habitable Size : 196m2
Land Size : 5,095m2
Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine


This property is For Sale by Bacchus Mayenne & Surrounding Areas

Price: €267,000

Price comment: Agency fees included

Highlights

  • A superbly renovated traditional farmhouse six bedrooms and four bath/shower rooms. Ideal for a home with an income from guest accommodation, B and B or a large family home.
  • Panoramic rural views, not isolated but at the same time, not overlooked or too close to other properties, peace and quiet assured. Three kms to the nearest village with shops, school and amenities.
  • Under 30 mins drive to Mont St Michel and the sandy beaches of the Cherbourg peninsular with the towns of St James, Fougeres and St Hilaire de Harcouet all within 15 mins drive. St Hilaire has a large weekly market .
  • The property has an attached barn with plans drawn for a 1 bedroom gite, a detached building with a games room, a garage and two smaller outbuildings for storage.
  • The house has LPG gas central heating, wood burning stoves and is very well insulated. Broadband internet connection.

Features

  • Bedrooms: 6
  • Rural
  • Terrace
  • Outbuildings

Condition and Utility Information

  • Condition - Restored / Habitable
  • Roof - Good Condition
  • Drainage - Septic tank
  • Water - Mains
  • Heating - Central heating
  • Electricity - Mains

Description

This fully renovated and spacious stone farmhouse offers prospective purchasers a versatile property which is an ideal country home for a larger family or equally a home offering several possibilites for someone looking for additonal income or a small business opportunity.
It lends itself well as a rural bed and breakfast, an owner's residence with holiday cottage, a small conference centre or for themed holidays such as music, arts or cookery workshops. The guest accomodation is the original building, the old stables and was built before the French Revolution. The main house is a later addition from around the 1850's.

The location is convenient to all the western channel ports and the local international airport at Dinard. For nature lovers, the Bay of Mont St Michel offers diverse species of wildlife as does the local area with lots to see and do; cycling, walking and horse riding trails, fishing lakes and excellent restaurants serving a wide variety of mouthwatering local produce and freshly caught seafood.

The farmhouse offers light and spacious accommodation on two floors, all completely renovated and ready for immediate occupation with no further work or even decoration required. All ground floor rooms are tiled with the exception of the dining room which has vinyl floor covering and the office which has parquet. The first floor has fitted carpets throughout.

The farmhouse is south-facing and the front entrance door leads into the living room (34m²) which boast exposed timbers and stone walls, with the entrance door and a window to the front, a large fireplace housing a wood burning stove, a dining area and stairs to the first floor landing. The dining area leads into a ground floor bedroom (13.5m²) with window to the front and exposed stone walls. The living room further gives onto the formal dining room (18m²) which leads up a few steps to the new fully fitted bright and contemporary kitchen (18m²) with windows to the rear. The kitchen provides the rear entrance door to the garden and a leads onto the bathroom/utility room (7m²) with bath, shower, wash hand basin, WC, boiler and electric water heater. The dining room further leads through to a hallway which gives onto the office (12m²) with parquet floor and window to the front. This could easily be turned into a further bedroom if required. The hallway continues to the potential guest accomodation, and opens into the second living room with entrance doors to the front and rear. This large and spacious reception room (30m²) boasts exposed timbers and stone walls and provides a kichen area, with door to the garden and a window to the front. The staircase leads to the first floor landing. This part of the house can be completely shut off to form a self contained unit suitable for guests, teenage children or extended family members, providing two bedrooms (bedrooms 5 & 6) and a shower room (shower room 4).

The stairs from the main living room lead onto the first floor landing which gives onto 6 bedrooms, all with exposed timbers and feature stone walls, and 3 bathrooms, all with exposed timbers. Bedroom 2 (13.5m²) with two Velux windows to the rear, bedroom 3 (14m²) with floor window and Velux window to the front, bedroom 4 (13m²) with floor window and Velux window to the front, shower room 2 & 3 (both 4m²) providing showers, wash hand basins, WCs and heated towel rails, a reading area (4m²)with window to the front and an airing cupboard. The further first floor accomodation can be separated to provide guest accomodation accessed from the second living area. Otherwise, the landing continues to provide onto bedroom 5 (16.5m²) and bedroom 6 (10.5m²), both with floor windows and Velux windows and shower room 4 (4.5m²).

The farmhouse offers a large garden and fabulous views over the surrounding farmland. Immediately to the rear of the house is a secluded patio and courtyard with the main part of the land beyond this and to the right, behind one of the barns. An easily managed lawn with a paddock large enough for a pony, sheep, goats and poultry would be ideal for those interested in self sufficiency. The garden also provides ample room for flower beds and a vegetable garden and already provides various fruit trees.

The farmhouse boasts extensive outbuildings. Attached to the main house is a stone barn (62m²) with plans drawn for a 1 bedroom self contained unit. The outline planning permission for this has elapsed but can be renewed easily and the plans modified if required. There is a timber framed part breeze block garage with corrugated roof (25m²). The back of the garage provides an open timber-framed lean-to (20m²). A further large outbuilding (71m²) to the rear, completely detached with a games or meeting room, art studio, wotkshops or whatever ideas you may have for its future use. The day room offers a parquet floor, electricity, lighting and power points and patio doors to the rear leading onto a wooden terrace. There is a further stone barn which may have originally been the bake house (17m²) and a breeze block potting shed (7m²) with indoor barbeque and electricity.

The property offers two year old boiler running on LPG and the woodburners are set up for warm air heating. The property boasts two 5000L septic tanks that conform to all current regulations.



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€267,000 is approximately :
Euros : €267,000 Rate: 1.0000
British Pounds : £214,097 Rate: 0.8019
US Dollars : $335,661 Rate: 1.2572
Swiss Francs : F320,781 Rate: 1.2014
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