Limousin Transformation (Family Home Plus Two Furnished Gites)

Property Description

Large house, originally house and stone barn, converted to a high standard in 4.3 acres of gardens and pasture suitable for enthusiasts of animals / equestrian. Private family home plus two 2-storey furnished letting apartments with further development potential. Also small 2-storey stone `porcherie` for additional Gite or stabling and outbuildings. All for approximately GB£265.000. Income from the two self-contained apartments in 2017 amounted to 6300€.

The property is set in 4.3 acres of gardens and meadowland and situated in the hamlet of La Valette in the south of the Haute Vienne, 4klms from the Correze border,35klms south of Limoges, 47klms north of Brive-la-Gaillarde, 368klms south of Paris and 185klms from Bordeaux. Mobile telephone and Broadband reception are good.

Property layout: The original property dating from 1881 has, between 1998 and 2007, been carefully modernised to provide a comfortable family home on three floors. The kitchen is of good size with tiled floor,oak framed ceramic worktops, double `butler` sink and oil fired range/boiler for cooking, hot water and the central heating. Stone steps to tiled cellar for useful cold storage area. A utility room, a shower room, spacious lounge / dining room with oak parquetry floor and Godin wood burning stove of 12kw capacity, `French` doors to patio paved area and access to large garage/workshop completes the ground floor. From the lounge / dining area stairs rise to a tiled landing off which is the present main bedroom, bathroom, shelved airing room with hot tank - the latter two rooms have tiled floors – and stairs to a further large bedroom with ensuite toilet and washbasin. An internal door to corridor at first floor level rear gives access to the two self-contained two storey apartments each with spacious lounge and kitchen area, each has stairs to family bedroom accommodation, shower room and toilet. The present owners would like to sell the property with these two apartments equipped and furnished but it is not a condition of sale. The corridor and the two apartment kitchen area floors are tiled.

The four bedrooms in the property are all doubles plus comfortably sleeping up to thirteen people.

Exterior: Exterior access to the corridor is by `french` style doors` to curved stone steps from a paved and grassed garden, with additional parking, at the rear of the property. Facing the road is a substantial tile roofed carport for up to three cars and equipment, with access to the property from two double entry gates for cars and one single entry for pedestrians. A bell push and security camera at the pedestrian gate displays on a screen in the lounge. Adjacent to and inside the pedestrian gate is a small two storey stone building, originally a `porcherie`, where the present owners lived during the years of work on the main building, in the grounds a timber building serves as an animal shelter and another as a wood store. Gardens, meadowland and trees surround the property and there is a fenced vegetable growing area.

Outbuildings: At the eastern end of the main building a small door accesses an area as yet undeveloped, it has the second cellar within and entered from the garage would make a superb additional workshop or even further living accommodation. The tiled roof of the main building was stripped and renewed in 2002, all timbers replaced and treated where necessary and new tiles laid with mandatory membrane and `breathers`.

Additional information: In transforming this property all new walls were constructed in concrete block and/or beton cellulaire and/or carreau de platre and guidelines strictly followed with regard to the insulation specification for this region. Throughout the main property all windows and exterior doors are double glazed.

For those interested in Broadband performance the current speed/s with France Telecom (Orange) at this property are `Download` 10.73Mbps and `Upload` 0.09Mbps.

The annual Taxe Foncieres for 2018 is 740€.

Location: There are superb views across the valley from the house which is set within a farming community hamlet between two nearby villages (La Porcherie at 1.7klms. and Saint Germain-les-Belles at 4.7klms.)both with shops, school, postal agency, station etc. The Police and Fire/Rescue services are in St.Germain-les-Belles, the autoroute 20 for Toulouse to the south and Paris to the north is just 9klms., the nearest airport is Limoges-Bellegarde or to the south Brive /Souillac.

NB1 For interested families from the UK it is possible to have an arrangement reducing the need to convert all the currency into €uro, please ask.

NB2 It will not be possible to show any interested enquirers around the property between Sunday the 15th of July and Sunday the 05th of August 2018.