A Stunning Domaine in the Aveyron with Five Gites, Equestrian Facilities and Huge Potential

Property Description

Summary
Located on a promentory overlooking the Aveyron river and having spectacular views over the surrounding countryside, this wonderful domaine is set in around 18 hectares of sloping land and woodland on either side of the buildings with about 700m2 of habitable accommodation. This includes a restored 2 bedroom owners house, an adjoining 3/4 bedroom self contained gite (could be combined), two further 3 bedroom gites, a 2 bedroom gite and a 1 bedroom gite. A chlorine pool is set in a terrace with fabulous views by the gites with a professional kitchen to the side with bar area and adjoining breakfast room and a sitting room.

The equestrian facilities comprise 9 boxes including foaling boxes, a horse solarium and shower, lunge ring, site of a former horse walker, a 40m x 20m outdoor sand manège and a field shelter.

All weather tennis court.

The site was run as a wedding venue until recently using large marquees for the celebrations. All the contents and equipment, including two marquees, are available separately. Further land could be available to rent.

To request a viewing or further information, please call Guy Sherratt EI, agent commercial with L'Esprit du Sud Immobilier on

The information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website:

Location
Located in the Aveyron about 20 minutes from Villefranche de Rouergue, under an hour to Rodez airport. Both Toulouse and Brive airports are about two hours away.

Interior
Approached down a long road through woods, the domaine greets you as you arrive at this spectacular location with views on all three sides over the Aveyron valley and the river at the bottom of the valley can be seen from some locations through the trees. An inspiring location. It would lend itself to someone who wanted to run a wedding venue from the location or just the gites themselves. There are so many possibilities and with nearly 700m2 of accommodation and potential to create more as some of the land adjoining the buildings is constructible.

The mainly stone built accommodation, in broad terms, have reversible air conditioning units via heat pumps and many floor with travertine flooring and high quality fittings.

Main house (170m2) With a pretty enclosed courtyard by railings to the front with a large olive tree and a covered terrace (9m2 approx) overlooking the courtyard. Open plan kitchen/dining room (46m2) with a modern high quality kitchen (Effeti) with black granite worktops, a large central island, combination ovens, a large dining area with insert fireplace, adjacent TV area (5m2), a study (11m2) and a salon (21m2) all with travertine floors, a large insert fireplace and door out onto large open terrace with great views. Lobby area with storage room (4m2) and tiled shower cubicle, separate WC and laundry area (21m2) including large Dagard cold storage room. Separate bedroom (14m2) and shower room (6m2) to the side. (Could be shared with Nestor gite) On the first floor, with sloping ceilings is the master bedroom (24m2 min), an adjacent childs bedroom (6m2) and an en-suite bathroom with bath, separate Italian style walk in shower, wash basin.
Separate WC.

Adjoining gite (Nestor) (118m2) Accessed off a parking area/gravelled terrace with views into salon (23m2) with insert fireplace, some exposed stone walls, dining area (11m2) and kitchen area (10m2) with a fitted kitchen with wooden worktops, central island, oven and microwave. Door to bathroom (14m2) with bath, separate large shower, wash basin and WC. Small laundry area (10m2) and lobby with access to the main house bedroom. Stairs up to dormitory bedroom (13m2 min) Second stairs from salon up to two further bedrooms, both with sloping ceilings) (17m2 and 12m2). Further two separate bedrooms with shower rooms on the ground floor. (16m2 and 4m2) and (14m2 and 6m2) respectively. The second of these bedrooms is accessed off the courtyard so could be used with the main house as well.

Office area (under the terrace of the main house) (20m2) For welcoming guests.

Gite 2 Georgeou (by office) (38m2) Kitchen/sitting room (23m2) With built in kitchen, oven, microwave and dishwasher, sitting area and door to bedroom (11m2) and adjoining shower room (5m2) with basin, WC and radiator. Access down to pool and to paved terrace with pergola to the side and small lawn.

Gite 3 Georgette (adjacent to gite 2) (70m2) Lobby (9m2) with spiral staircase to first floor, open plan living/kitchen (26m2) With travertine floor, built in quality Effeti fully fitted kitchen, sliding doors onto balcony and living area with insert fireplace. First floor with landing (3m2), two bedrooms (14 and 13m2) and shower room (6m2) with walk in shower, two basins and WC.

Gite 4 Rita (below pool) (98m2) With stunning views all along this gite with Kitchen area (11m2) with built in Effeti fitted kitchen with central island and built in units and ovens. Dining area to front (12m2) with slate tiled floor and door to large open terrace with those views. Three bedroom suites to the side, (24m2 each) with a bedroom, TV wall mount and a shower room with Italian style shower, wash basin and separate WC. At the front, there is a pergola terrace which are separated by bamboo hedging.

Gite 5 Angèle (on end) (92m2) Open plan kitchen.dining area (38m2) with fully fitted kitchen, travertine floor, wall mounted TV and freestanding woodburner. Stairs to first floor with two bedrooms (10m2 and 7,5m2), bathroom (6m2) with parquet floor, bath with shower over, twin basins and heater. Separate ground floor bedroom suite with shower room (26m2 overall) Large terrace to side with two further spaces underneath (55m2) with potential to create two further suites.

Professional catering and rest area. To the side of the pool terrace, there is a bar area (about 10m2), an adjacent professional kitchen (22m2) (equipment available separately), an adjoining WC and steps up to
a breakfast area (21m2) with spiral staircase up to a day room (24m2) with parquet floor.

Further outbuildings includes two large caves under the main house with access at either end (65m2) in total, a two storey stone building with scope for conversion by the equestrian facilities (80m2 in total), an adjacent area on which there was a building which has been demolished, and two flat areas on which the marquees were erected for the weddings, one of which has adjacent showers and WCs.

Exterior
The leisure facilities include a chlorine swimming pool set in a large terrace with views all around, an inset hot tub and surrounded by security fencing and gives access to the bar and professional kitchen area as well. At the top of the property, there is the all weather tennis court with petanque pitch at one end.

The equestrian facilities include a U shaped block of timber stables, with nine boxes ranging in size from 3m x 3m to 4,5m x 3m. All stables have hay mangers, a water point and popholes for hard feed and double doors. One of the foaling boxes is used as a tack room. To the side, there is a solarium and adjoining horse shower (6mx 3m) with a concrete floor, a small field shelter (4,5m x 3m) of timber construction and the adjoining parking area. A feed hopper adjoins the stable block. In addition, there is a fenced former horse walker although the equipment has been removed and a lunge ring on the other side of the driveway. Further down the hill is the 40m x 20 riding arena and has a sand surface and is fenced. This can be watered via a pipe from the deep well by the buildings.

The land is most sloping and steeper with orchards around the buildings with some grazing. Some of the adjoining land is rented from SAFER for a nominal sum a year. Further land is presently rented for the horses on a temporary arrangement from local farmers.

Services: Two septic tanks, mains water and electricity. Deep well.

Equipment and contents

Please note that the equipment and contents are not included in the price of the property but could be available separately along with the website, contact lists and the separate Civil Company (SC) which manages the lettings and, until recently, the weddings.