Are you Looking for a Project? This Large, Detached Family House that was Run as a Café/Bistro could be it.

Property Description

This property could provide a business opportunity for anyone who is keen to renovate and restore a large building and give it a new lease of life.

Set on a hill in a 3100m2 garden, it is opposite and 5 minutes walk from Saint Benoît-du-Sault. The property has fabulous views across valley and the medieval village. The village itself is officially classified as one of France’s most beautiful and it has a selection of shops and services including a supermarket.

For a larger town, Argenton-sur-Creuse is 30 minutes away offering a wider range of supermarkets, shops and services as well as the SNCF station and direct trains to Limoges and Paris. It’s under an hour’s drive to the international airport in Limoges.

This property is a blank canvas and while not for the feint hearted, with hard work it could be rejuvenated.

The property’s current configuration comprises on the ground floor, which is tiled throughout, of an entrance hall/passage and cloakroom. Off this are the former café dining-room (35m2), and connecting public bar (25m2), the private living/dining room with a corner kitchen and laundry area (36m2). This room is fitted with a sink, hob, extractor fan, oven and old woodburning stove.

Upstairs there are 2 large inter-communicating rooms, one with a fireplace and both with oak floors (35 and 26m2) and to the other side of the landing a modern shower room (8m2) (shower, basin, toilet) and 3 rooms with oak floors (7, 8 and 17m2 includes a dressing-room) the largest of these has a fireplace.

Outside there is an abundance of outbuildings. Attached to the house is an extensive workshop with an old forge, above this is a very spacious attic. Under the house there’s a vaulted cellar with an enclosed natural spring.

Separately there is a big stone barn with a granary above and a selection of other sheds in varying states of repair.

The property is surrounded by a fenced garden which includes an orchard and kitchen garden. At the front of the property is parking for several cars.

Heating: electric wall mounted radiators and wood burners. Drainage: fosse septique that will not conform. Part of the house was reroofed a decade or so ago.

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