Character House, 255m², Very Good Renovation, O'bldgs, Land 3.5ha Incl. Wood, Pasture

Property Description

The oldest part of the house dates from before 1535 and the south-east wing is 18th century. In a courtyard setting, all has been fully renovated to a very high standard, with great attention to detail and in keeping with its origins. The house has one 16th century fireplace and five dating from the reign of Louis XIV. Many of the rooms have the original tomette flooring and the main stone staircase has been worn smooth by centuries of use. There is 255m² of living space and nearly 3.5ha of land, including nearly 2ha of fields and beautiful woods of 5700m². The gardens and kitchen garden are superb. All the land has been organic for over 20 years. The woods can supply a self-sufficient amount of firewood.
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There are 3 spacious bedrooms, all with chestnut parquet flooring. The master suite has a bedroom of 25m², an en-suite shower/bathroom with underfloor heating of 9m² and a dressing room of 6m². There are also 3 main outbuildings, 60m², and two of 100m², all of which are in excellent condition and one of which has a working bread oven. Two one bedroom apartments, one attached to the house, could be created with appropriate planning consent (outline plans and photos available).
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Located in pleasant countryside, 10mins from the town of Loudun with all amenities and 14mins from the historic town of Richelieu, close to the Loire valley.

GENERAL INFORMATION
General condition: excellent, including all roofs
Heating: wood pellets +wood (DPE – E)
Re-wired 2005/2006
Drainage: the main septic tank conforms and a second would need a replacement soakaway to conform.
Gas tank
Broadband
In village (1 km): bread distributor
Mont-sur-Guesnes(8km): post office, doctor, dentist pharmacy
Loudun (10kms): all amenities such as supermarket, doctor, dentist, hospital, schools (up to 18years old, with school bus 1km away), weekly market…
24mins to Chinon, 37mins to Chatellerault and 56mins to Poitiers.

OUTSIDE
Front garden - seating areas, herbaceous borders, beautiful variety of roses
Side garden - laid to lawn with a variety of mature trees for shade plus seating and dining areas and orchard with apple, plum, cherry, almond walnut and fig trees
Rear garden – laid to lawn with a covered terrace dining area and a shaded seating area next to the vestiges of the private chapel. An ideal place for a pool.
Kitchen garden - with greenhouse and raised beds
2 wells – always water in one of them - watering system
Woods – 5,700m² with vestiges of ancient look-out tower at the rear entrance to the property

EQUESTRIAN
Self-filling troughs in 2 fields
4 paddocks/fields all with post and sheep wire or post and electric
80m² horse barn
Riding schools nearby
Veterinary surgeon and farrier nearby
Many off-road tracks

DIMENSIONS

HOUSE (virtually all the rooms have high ceilings)
Ground floor
HALL – 2.3 x 1.8m (4.1m²)
SALON – 6.7 x 6.1m (40.9m²)
OFFICE – 4.2 x 2.4m (10.1m²)
LIVING or DINING ROOM– 5.9 x 3.9m (23.0m²)
KITCHEN – 7.0 x 6.0m (42.0 m²) - underfloor heating
UTILITY ROOM – 3.4 x 2.1m (7.1m²)
STORAGE / CLOAKROOM -2.5 x 1.6m (4.0m²)
BOILER ROOM – 3.4 x2.7m (9.2m²)

First floor
LANDING – 1.6 x 1.2m (1.9m²)
CORRIDOR – 4.3 x 1.9m (8.2m²)
BEDROOM 1 – 6.3 x 3.9m (24.6m²)
EN SUITE BATH / SHOWER ROOM / WC – 4.4 x 2.1m (9.2m²) - underfloor heating
DRESSING ROOM – 2.7 x 2.3m (6.2m²)
BEDROOM 2 – 4.1 x 3.9m (16.0m²)
LOBBY – 2.1 x 2.0m (4.2m²)
BEDROOM 3 – 5.2 x 4.4m (22.9m²)
BATHROOM / WC – 3.0 x1.6m (4.8m²)

OUTBUILDINGS
OUTBUILDING 1 (60m²)
GARAGE – 6.0 x 2.9m (17.4m²)
2 OLD STABLES / LOGSTORE – 8.0 x 5.2m (41.6m²)

OUTBUILDING 2 (100m²)
MAIN AREA – 12.4 x 6.5m (80.6m²) –previously used as stabling with slip rails
ATTACHED AREA – water softener – 6.8 x2.7m (18.4m²)

OUTBUILDING 3 (100m²) – 15.9x 6.4m - half of which is currently used as a workshop

OPEN GARAGE – 6.9 x 6.1m (42.1m²)
CELLAR
CARPORT – 4.6 x 2.7m (12.4m²)
GARDEN SHED – 2.8 x 2.6m (7.3m²)

These particulars are believed to be correct but their accuracy is not guaranteed nor do they form part of any contract.
Agency commission of 4,5 % is included in the quoted price and is payable by the buyer. Price before commission: 401 914 €.
Information about risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website :
Energy report: Consumption: E (299 kWh/m²/an) Emissions: C (29 kg CO²/m²/an) - see photo

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