This 18th century single storey farmhouse of 124 m² is between Fleurance and Auch in the Gers. It offers a lounge, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, and a bathroom. There is an annex to the barn offering a further 66 m² accommodation - including a living area with mezzanine floor, shower room and separate toilet. It is set within a pleasant, mature garden of 5600 m² with outbuildings and a pond and is surrounded by countryside.
This property is a haven of peace and full of charm with exposed stone, exposed beams and colombage and terra cotta tiled floors. The separate accommodation is ideal for visiting friends or for a teenage apartment. The garden is a gardener's paradise, with vegetable patch, orchard, mature trees and shrubs, large pond, and chicken house. The barn provides further opportunities for conversion.
The winding avenue leads to a car port - part of the large barn. The house is south-east facing with a large terrace by the entrance. The entrance opens into the kitchen (12.5 m²) which has a spacious feel, opening on 2 sides to the entrance and corridor (15 m²) and is fully fitted. This room opens into the dining room (19 m²) which opens into the lounge (41 m²) and is separated from the lounge by the columbards of the original wall. The lounge has a fireplace with wood burning insert, and 2 French windows to the west and north. There are 2 bedrooms on the south side -1 with built-in wardrobes (12 m²) and the other (13 m²) is currently used as an office. The large bathroom (10 m²) has a shower, bath and double wash basins. There is a separate toilet.
The annex (66 m²) with its exposed stone walls and open plan style is perfect for visitors. The ground floor (41 m²) contains an entrance, a bright living room, shower room and a separate toilet. The floor downstairs is tiled throughout and a wooden staircase leads to the mezzanine (25 m²), with a parquet floor. To 3 sides there are huge double glazed sliding windows. It is centrally heated so could equally be used as permanent accommodation perhaps for a teenager.
The adjoining stone barn is 2 storey (200 m² approx.altogether), has a kitchen an ancient cellar and a boiler room. This has enormous potential to creat further accommodation.
The roof is tiled, the walls are stone and the construction is traditional. There is oil fired central heating plus the wood-burning fireplace in the main house. The hot water production is electric in the main house and gas (bottled) in the annex. There is fibreglass insulation in the loft, double glazing with wooden door / window frames in the main house and aluminium in the annex. The waste drainage system is by septic tank (new -replaced in 2008.)
Outside, the mature garden is 5646m. It has a large, mature pond fed by a spring, an orchard- apples, pears, cherries, walnuts, quince, plums, peach, apricot) vegetable plot, asparagus bed, chicken house, beds and borders and a well. The spring provides enough water for all the watering.
It is walking distance to the nearest village, 5 minutes drive to a village with restaurant, 10 minutes drive to local shops, schools and amenities, 25 minutes from Fleurance and Auch, 50 minutes from Toulouse airport, 2 ½ hours from the Atlantic coast and the ski slopes, 3 hours from the Mediterranean..
