Charming 19th Century Stone Farmhouse, Renovated, 1.3 Hectares of Land

Property Description

Summary
Tranquility. Open countryside. Wildlife. Room to breathe. Space to slow down. But within easy reach of all amenities.
This charming stone farmhouse, which is offered furnished, has been sympathetically modernised providing 223 sq metres of comfortable living space. All of its original features have been carefully protected. Lots of oak beams and stone walls. Set on a plot of 3 and a quarter acres / 1.3 hectares, to do with what you have wished for. 4 km from the vibrant village of St Hilaire des Loges in southeast Vendée. Only 20 minutes from Fontenay le Comte, the historic old county town of the Vendée.
Excellent location:
3 airports with an hour and three quarters (La Rochelle, Nantes, Poitiers) TGV station half an hour away, with Paris taking 2 and a half hours. Bordeaux takes 2 hours 20 minutes
St Malo ferry port 3 hours 25 mins, Ouistreham (Caen) is 4 and a half hours
Puy de Fou an hour away. Futuroscope one and a half hours. The coast is an hour away. Many local attraction and sports facilities. 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, 1 separate toilet, large farmhouse kitchen, snug, salon, dining room, wood pellet boiler with silo, wood burner, car port, cellar, summer kitchen with bread oven, separate building containing a fully equipped wood working shop and garage for garden machinery. Tractor shed. 2 wood stores. Orchard, vegetable garden, greenhouse. Patio and deck.
Just bring your personal effects and move in.

Location
Just 4km outside the pretty village of St Hilaire des Loges with a supermarket, bakery, 2 banks, hairdressers, pharmacy and a bar resto. Small Friday market.
Main town of Fontenay le Comte is 20 minutes away. A bustling town with 2 hyper markets, and every shop you could wish for. Also a good hospital, clinic, dentists etc. It has a huge sports plain with football and rugby pitches, archery and indoor shooting range, dog agility park, bmx track and a dojo.

Access
The house is 20 minutes from the A83 motorway.
3 airports within an hour and a half. La Rochelle, Nantes and Poitier
The channel ports are 3 1/2 hours and 4 1/2 hours away. St Malo and Ouistreham. Cherbourg is nearly 5 hours away. The channel tunnel is nearly 7 hours away
TGV station is half an hour away

Interior
You enter the house into a large kitchen/snug of 43sq metres. With 2 roof electric Veluxes with blinds, this is a light filled space. Great working layout and includes a Rangemaster double cooker as well as dishwasher and side by side fridge/freezer. All white goods are by Bosch. There is nearly 8 metres of granite worktop plus the central island. The kitchen leads to a sitting area with access to a large composite deck. The table can seat 8 people and there is a comfortable seating area too. Shade is provided by an electric awning.
The snug leads into an intimate dining room. The solid oak 2.5 metre table and 6 oak chairs are included.
You then walk through to the salon/lounge. An L shape room, this lends its self to various layouts. With an ancient stone fireplace, wood burning stove and 2 old wall alcoves, this room is full of character. From here, you can access the stone patio through double glazed doors. Here you will find a covered area with an old working bread oven. It’s really quite something. The salon also leads to bedroom 4/office. This brick paved room is cosy and inviting. It contains an old stone sink and storage shelves and could easily be incorporated with the guest suite into a rental area. Leading through to a toilet then up solid steps to the guest suite. Another light filled, dual aspect room, with large en suite bathroom. With minor works, this could easily be turned into a chambre d’hôte or Airbnb. All furniture is included.
The salon also leads upstairs to 2 further large bedrooms and a large family bathroom via a landing. The landing has 2 oak linen cupboards. The landing also has the front door leading to the garden. One bedroom is again dual aspect ( south and east) with a chestnut floor. The stone chimney passes through this room. It also has a wall mounted air conditioning unit. Huge wardrobe, baroque bed and side tables are included. The other bedroom faces east and sun streams through the 2 windows in the morning. This room has another old, non working fireplace and a “ potager”. In years gone by, people could cook on this ancient Vendeen kitchen. Again , the wardrobes, bed and side tables are included.

Exterior
The house comes with over 12,000 metres of land, divided into 4 areas. The main garden and 3 fields. The biggest field is approx 5000 sq metres. Ideal for livestock. The garden and this field are fully enclosed. There are 3 gravel driveways.
The garden has an avenue of lime trees lining the drive providing shade in the hot summers. And the scent of the flowers in late May is incredible. The bees love it. The garden is mainly grassed with flower beds being near the house for ease of watering. There are also apple trees,
ornamental trees and a small stone outbuilding. One feature is a large horse chestnut tree. Another is an old agricultural machine inherited with the house when we bought it.
There are two fields opposite the house across a farm track. One contains a small orchard with apple, pear, cherry, plum and medlar trees. It also has a small raised bed vegetable patch. The second field has a greenhouse of 18’ x 8’ and 2 woodsheds for the logs. Plus another small stone outbuilding
Attached to the house is a car port leading to the cellar. This is divided into 3 areas. One area is used as a pantry, one contains a very large chest freezer and the third has a fridge. The laundry area is also in the cellar with Bosch washing machine, Bosch tumble dryer - both included in the sale, and a sink.
Next to the house is a separate building, currently used as a woodworking shop and a garage for the ride on mower ( not included) and other maintenance tools. The woodworking shop side includes a table saw, thicknesser/planer, pillar drill, bandsaw, chop saw, router and many other smaller tools. It also has an extraction system. The other side is racked out for storage too.
Between the house and workshop is a simple tractor shed. The tractor is not included but is available at additional cost. It’s a must for the area of land to be maintained.

Additional Details
If you love wildlife then this is the place for you. There are rabbits, hares, foxes, stone martins, hedge hogs, deer and many species of birds. These include hoopoes, swallows, wrens, buzzards, green woodpeckers spotted woodpeckers, nightingales, cuckoos and all the usual garden varieties The woodpeckers love the peanut feeders the swallows and wrens nest in the car port.
There are dog walks straight from the house. All through open farmland and along quiet farm lanes. There is an old millers lane leading from the house down to a water mill , about one and a half kilometers.
Electricity is supplied by EDF costing 80€ per month
There is fibre from Orange giving a speed of around 200mbps download and 157mbps upload
The tax fonciere is 94€ per month
Water is 25€ per month.

Also available with our bilingual agent at https://www.iadfrance.fr/annonce/maison-vente-8-pieces-saint-hilaire-des-loges-223m2/r2007520