Detached, Fully Furnished, Characterful Family Holiday Home in a Pyreneen Village Location Close to Local Ski Resorts

Property Description

Summary
An amazing place to enjoy life in the Pyrenees, whether you are into the adrenaline of climbing (walkable from the house), skiing (a short drive away) or mountain hiking (from the doorstep!) - or just like relaxing and taking in the views, with charming villages and prehistoric history all around.
Family owned for the past 20 years with modern upgrades and ready to move into. Impressive entrance hall leading to large traditional rooms including spacious fully fitted modernised kitchen, triple aspect lounge and dining room and re-fitted main bath and shower room and separate toilet, new staircase to 4 double bedrooms and upstairs washroom. The house is fully furnished throughout, with new electric hot water system and new oil fired central heating boiler. Large enclosed level garden ideal for children of all ages, with newly-installed lockable garden and driveway gates. Detached large garage complete with an underground wine cellar or store.

Location
Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains is a characterful French village in the Pyrénées situated on the outskirts of Tarascon-sur-Ariège, which offers supermarkets, boulangeries, bars, restaurants, heritage sites and other local services, as well as good rail links to the medieval town of Foix, and the vibrant cities of Toulouse and Barcelona. The area is world famous for prehistoric discoveries and caving systems, both of which have tourist attractions to discover these fascinating aspects. Easy access to local ski resorts at Ax les Thermes, and Andorra. There are also public swimming pools in nearby villages for particularly hot summer days.

Access
The house is just over one hour’s drive by major roads from either Toulouse or Carcassonne airports. Tarascon-sur-Ariège train station is just a 5 minute drive from Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains, with free parking. Ax-les-Thermes ski resort is 20 minutes by car, and it is about one hour’s drive to the increasingly popular mountain resort of Pas de la Casa in Andorra, or the Haute Pyrénées and the Spanish border.

Interior
Entrance hall leading to an impressive lounge / sitting room / dining area with large stone fireplace and log burner stove and wonderful French period furniture. Downstairs main bath / shower room and separate toilet. Large fully modernised kitchen with ceramic hob, oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge-freezer and breakfast bar and french doors to the garden. Large room off the hallway with washing machine and new electric water heater / tank and new oil fired central heating boiler, this room doubles as a drying room for outdoor clothing. New wooden staircase leads up to the landing and four large double bedrooms, two of which are double aspect with french doors onto the upper balcony terrace. Upstairs toilet and washroom, and further flight of proper stairs giving access to the large loft space - which could be easily converted to additional bedrooms and a bathroom, for extra accommodation / gite space.

Approximate Room dimensions:

Entrance Hallway - 7.3 m long, 3.0 m high (with an L shape dimension to the kitcehn and bathroom)
Main Living / Dining Room - 8.5 m Long, 4.2 m wide, 3.0 m high
Kitchen - 4.0 m by 3.4 m, 2.5 m high
Bathroom - 3.3 m by 1.95 m, 2.9 m high

Bedroom 1 - 4.2 m by 3.5 m (all bedrooms are 3.0 m high)
Bedroom 2 - 4.2 m by 4.2 m
Bedroom 3 - 4.0 m by 3.5 m
Bedroom 4 - 4.0 m by 3.5 m
Washrooms and Toilet 2.4 m by 1.3 m, 2.8 m high

Exterior
Built on a double plot of over 900 m2 offering a large and secure garden which can be easily maintained, the house is solidly built with 'river stone' walls all round. Full injected damp proof course fitted, the house has secure wooden shutters on all external doors and windows, and recent stainless guttering all round. There is a lower under-cover tiled terrace area, and upstairs the house has a tiled, re-laid balcony with wonderful views. An outside 'puit' or garden well (although not in use).

Additional Details
The garden is large, and completely flat, bounded by a conifer hedge at the rear and a flowering berry evergreen pyrcocantha hedge to the front and side. New driveway and garden locking gates fitted recently ensure that the whole garden is very secure and well suited to children of any age for their play and safe enjoyment.

Recent annual 'taxes' - Taxe Foncieres approx 1070 euros pa and Taxe d'Habitation a further approx 750 euros pa The house is connected to mains drainage. Water and Electricity is paid for by metered consumption, and the oil tank sunk underneath the front garden has a capacity for storing between 2500 and 3000 litres of heating fuel (easily supplied by local merchants as and when required).