Opis:

This attractive stone built property is situated in a small quiet hamlet in the beautiful Perigord Limousin National Park less than 10 minutes to a small Limousin town with a small supermarket, bakery, cafe, church and garage, and 45 minutes to the city of Limoges and the airport with regular flights to the UK.

Currently operating as a bed and breakfast with the little property adjoining the main house being let either as further bed and breakfast accommodation or being let out as a gite, the property is a ready made business. The current owners have accounts showing regular and repeat bookings.

There is also a barn/garage attached to the house, another barn set at right angles to the house, a building formerly used as pigsties, a well, garden attached to the house and another garden/vegetable plot 50m away.

The principal house comprises on the ground floor:
-living room (-24m2), wooden parquet floor, exposed beams, fireplace with log burner, access to the cellar;
- kitchen (-18m2), floor partly tiled and part stone;
- bedroom (-10m2) with terracotta tiled floor and exposed beams
-en-suite shower room/laundry (-6,5m2) with walk-in shower, WC, hand basin, plumbing for automatic washer;

On the first floor the accommodation has been fashioned into a small apartment for a family let out on a bed and breakfast basis and comprises a main room (35m2) with wooden floor and exposed stone walls housing a seating/dining area with log burner, and a sleeping area;
-en-suite bathroom (8,5m2) with bath, over bath shower, WC, wash basin and chestnut flooring;

Attached to the house with access out of the living room but also with its own private access, a 1 bedroom centrally heated house which has recently had the electrics replaced and new insulation.
It comprises, on the ground floor:
-dining kitchen/living room (-18m2) with exposed stone walls and beams, wooden floor, wood burner with a back boiler which heats the small house, 2 radiators, door to outside;
Stairs to the first floor:
- a bedroom (-9m2) with radiator and 2 roof windows, an en-suite shower room with walk in shower, WC and wash basin, roof window and radiator;
- a covered tiled terrace (-20m2) with a raised decorative pond;

Attached to the house is a stone barn/garage (-40m2)

At the front of the house, a graveled parking area with a well and a large stone barn (-120m2) set at right angles to the main house with access to 3 old stone pigsties and an attached garden of approximately 330m2. There is another garden/vegetable plot (-747m2) approx. 50m away.

The owners are selling the property with the furniture in the first floor apartment in the main house and some of the white goods.

Consommation conventionnelle :
999 kWh ep/m2.an

Estimation des Gaz a effet de serre :
999kg eqCO2/m2.an

About Limousin

The region known as Limousin, which consists of Haute Vienne, Creuse and Correze, has been incorporated in the new region of Nouvelle Aquitaine since 2016. The area is situated at the top end of southwest France and has often been referred to as France profonde or the French Lake District. To my mind, however, Limousin most resembles the Cotswolds in the U.K. It's a very good area in which to buy French property because of its beauty, accessibility and property prices.

Scenically, the rolling countryside of Limousin consists of meadows, woods, rivers and lakes interspersed with pretty hamlets and flower filled villages. It is typically very rural but one is never far away from a small bustling market towns and there are many picturesque riverside towns such as Beaulieu and the larger cultural centre of Limoges, famous for its porcelain industry. Just about every village and town has a weekly market and seasonal produce is reflected in the menus of the numerous, small local restaurants.

If you to choose to buy property in Limousin you will be buying into an area where the quality of life will be more important than the quantity of your possessions. There are very few chateaux in Limousin and most property is either delightful farmhouses or cottages surrounded by orchards and vegetable gardens or pretty village houses. Your neighbours are almost certain to be welcoming as long as you treat them with the respect that anyone who chooses to live off the land deserves.

In your new property in Limousin your social life is likely to revolve around aperitifs with friends and neighbours, trips to the market, tending your garden and the occasional visit to English or French speaking films, a concert, opera or ballet. Come the hot days of summer, swimming in the many rivers and lakes or lazing in the garden are a must, probably followed by a barbecue under the starry night sky.

Life in Limousin is as gentle as the