The Manor, Le Logis, 5 Minutes from St. Hilaire du Harcouet, Manche (Normandy), 45mins to St Malo Car Ferry

Property Description

Summary
A Stone built Manor building surrounded by its grounds on all 4 sides (built in 15th century the neighbor tells me with stones from an abandoned nearby 11th century Norman castle). Walls are 2 - 3’ thick in places. Fitted with Euro 20,000 worth of lead design double glazed windows. There is no interior features other than cement floors and dividing walls (stone or breeze block) only with fireplaces. It has both ground and upper floor. It does need restoring. Think of it as a shell with most doors, windows, roof and concrete ground floors. I suggest the roof needs replacing, the existing French tiles with hooks is an old system and not very efficient in my thinking. The whole ground floor has a cement base with damp course. Cement slabs are up to 2’ thick in places to take tractors etc. Half of the entire ground floor cement slab is to a smooth (screed) finish. The other half is to an un-screed finish. Ground floor is divided into 6 large/huge rooms that could easily be divided again, comprising large kitchen, dining room with grand fireplace (retaining a coat of arms above), sitting room with another grand fireplace, another larger sitting room with another grand fireplace and with plastered walls and fitted floorboards, large entrance hall/room, and a large adjoining room (big enough to make a nice 10 car garage perhaps). These rooms are huge and ideal for a hotel. Some of the walls have paneling fitted. Euro 2,500 paneling sheets are stored, to be included in the sale. There are a number of front doors, that would lead to an easy conversion to Gites (self-contained holiday/rental homes). On the 1st Floor, huge beams support boarded 1st floor throughout. There are 2 internal upper stone walls with several grand fireplaces, otherwise it’s a huge open space ready for dividing to buyers design. My previous idea was to make 16 ensuite bedrooms (8 behind the 8 windows facing the front, and similar 8 rooms facing the rear, with a corridor down the middle). Currently if you look up from the 1st floor you can see the underside of the roof. Potential attic 2nd floor: There is more than enough headroom to make an attic 2nd floor , and making another 16 ensuite bedrooms perhaps or just make it as an attic. I shall be leaving a number of beams to facilitate this (included in the sale). The roof lends itself to the fitment of dormer roof windows to facilitate more rooms in the attic. There is electricity available at the pole on the boundary of the garden (currently feeds the neighbor) . Electric company confirmed there is spare capacity at the pole reserved for the Manor. They will install drop wire and provide fuse distribution panel. It has its own water mains supply with its meter inside boundary (front garden). No drains. Advise to install septic tank. Bottled gas is provided in the area and preferred by most of the locals. There is internet connection at the neighbours house, provided by a pole between the 2 properties next to the front road. All the land to the left side of the Manor is flat pasture, clear of bush and trees. The land to the rear of the Manor is mostly flat, overgrown and could be either pasture or let it revert to woodland, there is also a unused orchard there (cider apple trees). The front garden I have allowed to revert to woodland for privacy. The whole plot could be used to farm, grow timber, graze animals or turn into gardens. Surrounding the property are fields on 3 sides (farmland), so very quiet.
Additional building : Existing Chapel (11th Century) in the Grounds. (1 ground floor room with stairs leading to 1 upper floor). Paved ground floor, plastered walls, solid front door, 2 x traditional bread ovens, fireplace, stairs leading to floorboard upper floor, plastered walls. Cosy and basic live-able building. Heating provided by burning the many falling branches from this wooded garden in the Chapel fireplace. NB all other out buildings shown on the google map are simple animal pens and are of not much use.
Stream exists forming the western boundary (in a Nth-Sth direction) , which is a useful free water source

Location
It is located in the Normandy area called ‘little swiss’ due to the soft rolling hills similar to the lower parts of Switzerland, it’s a very pretty and quiet area.
Google map : https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5946079,-1.1232716,315m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
Land size is 1 Hectare, 38 aras. or, (13,800 sq m), Or (3.41 acres). It is a mix of wood land and open pasture.

Access
Direct road access from 11 Rte du Logis (see google map), private gravel driveway to the Manor that sits in the centre of its 1 Hectare, 38 aras plot, in the quiet hamlet of Le Logis, 5 minutes from the town of St. Hilaire du Harcouet, Manche (Normandy) with its markets, shops, supplies, cafe, restaurants, hotel, and building merchants etc. 45 mins from St Malo for the Portsmouth car ferry.

Interior
Blank canvas ready for your design. *ASK FOR OUR VIDEO* showing the indoor areas/rooms (unable to add here)

Exterior
11th century stone, brown framed double glazed 'leaded' design windows in keeping with the antiquity.

Additional Details
Photos taken 3 years ago. Now overgrown due to owners ill health. Serious buyers only. Proof of funds before viewing. Huge property and land parcel for little money. Priced to sell quickly. First come first serve. Absolute Bargain