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Charming habitable cottage in the Puisaye in glorious NW Burgundy

Reference: IFPC18413 - 3 Bedroom Residential - €100,000 (Furnished: No offers)
Location: Auxerre, Puisaye, NW Burgundy

The cottage

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€100,000 is approximately :

Australian Dollars : $163,467

British Pounds : £90,077

Canadian Dollars : $158,880

Hongkong Dollars : $1,150,294

Japanese Yen : ¥13,195,485

New Zealand Dollars : $205,647

Swiss Francs : F151,257

US Dollars : $148,539

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€100,000

Bedrooms	Habitable	Land Size
3	?	?

3 Bedroom Residential - €100,000 (Furnished: No offers) - Location: Auxerre, Puisaye, NW Burgundy

Burgundy, Yonne, Auxerre

This Property is currently For Sale by a private vendor

Highlights

Beams, log fire, beautiful rolling countryside
Massive enlargement potential - 2 big unused rooms
Tremendous village with good restaurant
Short drive St Fargeau + swimming lake
30 mins motorway, 2 hours Paris

Description

First, the real selling points. 1. Though the cottage is attached at one side (to a workshop only), and in a lane in the (very quiet and pretty) village, it is completely private. The house is old with thick stone walls. There's a small garden ideal for eating in, a pine tree, a high hedge. The neighbour is rarely seen or heard. Madame in the house across the road is friendly, lends her stepladder for hedge cutting. Our house is at the end of the lane, with views from upstairs across the fields, the allotments, orchards. Further into the lane, there are a couple of cottages lived in by quiet retired people - everyone amiable - and also 3 used by French for their own holidays. Most people speak a little English. One of the 3 French holiday house owners has worked as a tour guide and speaks perfect English. We don't know of any native English speakers in the area, though. Most holiday makers here are Parisians. 2. The location. We worked hard to get this right. This is the fourth house we have owned in France and easily the best located. The village is charming. The church bongs the hour. The people are nice. The bread van that comes round in the morning from the main village (5 mins drive) has really good croissants. The square has a terrific unpretentious restaurant. You can sit out on warm evenings. There are swallows swooping. The air is scented with village flowers. If you go twice, the lady owner will greet you like an old friend. 3. Communications are very good. It's a 40 minute drive north to Auxerre. 30 minutes west to the N-S motorway. 2 hours to the edge of Paris (and IKEA!). 40 minutes drive to a train station with frequent Paris services - also goes to Charles de Gaulle airport. 4. The Puisaye is Burgundy's northern bit of Arcadia, with rolling hills and woods and lovely views. It used to be a major pottery making area and some potteries survive. The writer Colette was born in St Sauveur (our nearest supermarket, 9km) and wrote of the area's beauty. St Fargeau - 20 mins pretty drive - is the most touristy of the Puisaye's little towns (really they are big villages) and has an awe-inspiring castle - visitable - nice restaurants including an excellent creperie, a superb tea shop with the best local macaroons, and a swimming lake surrounded by a forest, where our children enjoy bathing and reading and going on the pedaloes, and we all like to swim in the peaty tea coloured water. There's an artificial beach where local families come on summer weekends.

AFTER ALL THAT, for us the details of the house are almost secondary. But here's what there is : 3 bedrooms (1 on ground floor), huge sitting/dining room with log fireplace, small kitchen, and a big unconverted room adjoining, that kitchen would extend easily into (with big arched doors to garden), old bathroom with powerful new cabinet shower, 2 upper level bedrooms, big upper level room unconverted that would make a natural master suite/upper sitting room - this is integral, not a further grenier/loft. Small garden.

More internal house details:
A big big sitting room with french windows to garden and wooden stairs leading to first floor. We have one end as a dining area. There's a big log fireplace - which is great off season. Beams. Knobbly character walls. A tiled floor - good in hot weather, easy clean. This is modern, but the downstairs bedroom/hall/kitchen have their original tiles/tomettes.

Down the corridor from sitting room: the ground floor double bedroom to the left, the bathroom to the right, the small kitchen straight ahead, and its big unused "Garden Room" to its left, again. We have just spent some money having the house rewired and replumbed, a new boiler and shower installed. Bear in mind that everything is simple, rustic, old fashioned. If you like a modern hotel finish you are in the wrong place.

The kitchen is 1970s brown, and basic. It has a short row of pine cupboards, a small under counter fridge, a 4 burner hob, stainless steel double sink with drainer, plumbing for a washing machine, window, door to Garden Room. In one corner, a solid fuel stove/cooker that we use off season.

The bathroom has black floor tiles, peach floral wall tiles, a good sink, new loo, new cabinet shower with large rose and excellent pressure. [New large water heater tank in attic room].

Upstairs there are two more bedrooms (beds 2 + 3) with double beds and old wardrobes, and wooden floors, and a third door opening into the vast unrenovated space, the "attic room". It isn't a grenier as such but an integral part of the house.

The house is being sold furnished - such as it is. We will take personal items and most pictures away but the furnishings and kitchen equipment will remain, so it will be immediately usable for holidays.

Furnishings: The sitting room has a mixture of IKEA and old furniture. 2 sofas. Armchairs and occasional chairs. A table and chairs and dresser at the dining end. The beds are a mix of old (house inherited) and new, IKEA ones. The armoires are old (house inherited). It's all very simple.

DIMENSIONS - approximate
Sitting/Dining Room -   27'6 x 15'6
Bedroom 1 (downstairs) -    14' x 10'
Bathroom - 7'6 x 6'6
Kitchen - 13 x 10
Garden Room - 17'6 x 15

Upstairs:
corridor 6'8 wide
Bedroom 2 - 13'8 x 12'6
Bedroom 3 - 12'6 x 12'6
Attic Room -   24'6 x 19 plus (in the L) about 10x8

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Features

Bedrooms: 3
Village

Condition and Utility Information

Condition - Partially Restored
Roof - Good Condition
Drainage - Mains
Water - Mains
Heating - None
Electricity - Mains

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