Character Property with Cottage for sale in Lezay

• Private circular driveway with octagonal fish pond
• Detached house: 4 bedroom 3 bath (one en-suite)
• Separate cottage: 2 bedroom 2 bath (one en-suite)Specailly designed ceilings and floors
• Custom-designed ceilings and floors
• 12x5 heated swimming pool with a 14 KW heat pump

• Bedrooms: 6

• Condition - Restored / Habitable

JUST REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE

Le Chêne de Courgé is a unique property composed of two separate dwellings full of custom designed, hand crafted details by the American Architect/Engineer owner for his own comfort, achieving convenience and a quality that will be appreciated by the discriminating buyer. It has been described by guests as “‘delightful” and “the location and setting is perfect and your home is unique” Serious buyers are invited by the owners to be their guests for a night in order to experience life at Le Chêne and appreciate its special features.

The property has a lot of flexibility and potential and lends itself to several uses:

• Family home with guest quarters.
• Dwelling for two families, or one family and in-law cottage.
• If rental income is desired, the house can be let for summer holiday-makers while the owner lives in the cottage; or vice versa.
• The games room can be converted into a guest room as it has a full bathroom.
• The large front fields are very suitable for horses; the barn being easily converted to stables.

It is located between the Loire Valley with its magnificent chateaux, and the Dordogne valley with its vineyards and wine tasting at St. Emilion. To the west is Niort (formerly a Roman port), the capital of our Department of Deux-Sèvres A little further afield and closer to Nantes is the Puy de Fou, with its recreated French Medieval village and incredible Sound and Light night show during the month of August.
The Poitou-Charentes region is broadly agricultural, with a gently undulating topography that is an excellent base for walking and cycling. The gorgeous sunflower fields are all around in their season, showing this rural part of France at its best, the way it has been for centuries.
Melle, with its Roman churches and culture, the silver mines of the kings of France and the ancient lavoir, plus the arboretum is within 20 minutes drive.
Only minutes away is the town of Lezay with its weekly outdoor market, supermarket, bakeries, pharmacies and banks.
Further south is the world-famous Cognac area with its distilleries that offer a tour of the facilities to the public.

Description:
The main house is a gas-fired, centrally-heated 4-bedroom, 3-bath building with an electrically heated hot water supply, while the detached 2-bedroom, 2-bath cottage is heated by a classic wood-burning stove. This is supplemented by wall-mounted electric heaters as well as movable gas and electric heaters as needed. The Cottage kitchen, master bathroom and second kitchen have under-sink electric water heaters that provide instant hot water.

The authentic stained glass window in the house master bedroom and the two in the cottage living space come from an ancient church in Norfolk.

The 12 x 5 meter swimming pool is heated by a 14 kw electric heat exchanger (amply sufficient to achieve 30 degrees even in cooler weather), while the insulated, all-season cover is electrically operated at the touch of a switch. Together they have been described as a “truly fabulous swimming pool, which in terms of size and temperature is the best we have come across at any of the properties we have stayed at”, and “fantastic for both kids and adults.”

If the new owner wishes, the enclosed hot-tub can be moved outdoors as electric connections for that are in place.

Table tennis is available in the pool house games room. In the adjacent tiled bathroom, an electric heater provides hot water to the shower and basin.

The two large front fields with high hedges - together with the private driveway - create the tranquility of country living in the middle of a quiet village. The fields, orchard, lawns and mar provide ample space that has been much appreciated by family and guests and described as “a huge playground and a back-drop to endless games”.

The glass-roofed and -walled 15 sq. m Gazebo and its BBQs (charcoal and gas-fired) are always the center of activity around the pool providing supervision of young bathers and a space for social entertaining and alfresco dining.

The property can be purchased with all its furniture and furnishings - both indoor and outdoor - if that meets the buyer's needs and wishes.


The workshops include built-in work benches and shelving, and are included in the sale together with all tools, saws, and other electrical and mechanical devices for wood and metal working.

Additional information can also be found on the owner’s site: http://lechene.wordpress.com and you can also take a tour of the property at: www.tourfactory.com/794928

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