Located at the end of a small hamlet at the top of a hill, along a country cul-de-sac and close to Saint-Germain-les-Belles, this farmhouse and its outbuildings will fulfill the hopes and aspirations of people seeking nature and a new lifestyle in a preserved rural environment. This complex includes a 2-bed habitable stone house and its convertible attic, a 19th Century stone cottage with a bread oven, two large barns with various adjoining outbuildings, a well and a large plot of land with an orchard and majestic trees.The dwellingThe south-facing house has been renovated recently and comprises on the ground floor: an entrance into the tiled-floor kitchen with a fireplace and a fully lined wood burner and an exposed staircase to the upper floors. A small utility room with a WC housed under the stairs adjoins the kitchen. To the right of the entrance, a lounge with laminate flooring stands over the cellar.
On the 1st floor, a small landing leads on its right to a bedroom with a magnificent East-facing view of the attached land. To the left of the landing, the master bedroom takes up the full depth of the house. Shared between the two bedrooms, a shower room with a WC. From the master bedroom, the staircase leads to the convertible attic on the top floor.
A cellar accessible via an external staircase is located under the lounge and houses the 200-litre (44 gallons) electric water tank and the soil pipes going to the septic tank that will only require a soak away being put in. The natural slate roof of the house has been renovated and the former iron fixing hooks replaced with stainless steel ones. The attic floor is insulated between the joists with mineral wool.The OutbuildingsThe property has several large outbuildings, including two barns separate from the dwelling house (both cannot be converted into gites due to current regulations).
The first barn is attached to the second one and they have a combined floor space of approximately 2600ft². The first barn is a single floored hay storage building partly raised over 30’ x 10’ pigsties. It has an extension with 970ft² of floor space built out of concrete blocks and roofed in cement fibred sheets. It is raised over a stone cellar and an open storage area that currently houses two horses. Adjoining this barn are further pigsties, also of 30’ x 10’ with a storage attic above.
The second barn has two floors and two stables on either side of an initially open barn, but which had a floor added to create more hay storage. Adjoining the second barn, a stone open hangar with a tin roof of nearly 430ft² of floor space rounds up this set of buildings.
If all this is not enough, you can rebuild the third crumbled down barn that is also on the property!
If you want to create a nice independent guesthouse, why not renovate the pretty little 19th Century stone cottage next to the barns, comprising a large room with an attic and a bread oven within the fireplace?A large hilly piece of land with a well, an orchard and magnificent viewsApart from the large buildings, land is this property’s other asset. A low stone wall with double access gates (for vehicles and pedestrians) runs along the front Southwestern part of the property all the way from the old house down to the vegetable garden behind the main house. A gravelled flat strip of land allows for several vehicles of all sizes to be parked in front of the barns.
The land faces Northeast from the house, is all attached and is divided into three large sections: two meadows purpose-fenced for animals (horses or smaller) and a fenced-in orchard separated from the meadows by a mature tree hedge. This orchard is also accessible via a dead-end lane located at the Northeastern end of the land.
The well next to the old house brings, through underground pipes, water to the drinking troughs around the meadows. The land is shaped like a gently sloping basin down from the barns and up the other side towards a hedge of tall trees along the public footpath to the North.Access and amenitiesThe property is the penultimate one along the dead-end lane. The last inhabitant being the farmer and his farm at lane’s end, about 50 metres (160’) further. There are no neighbouring properties on your doorstep to contend with here.
Local amenities, schools, sports facilities, and the Saint Germain les Belles swimming lake are less than 10 minutes away by car. The house is 15 minutes from the A20 motorway connecting Limoges (30 minutes North) and Brive-la-Gaillarde (40 minutes South).