Just 5 minutes north of the large market town of Tarbes, with its fabulous Thursday market, this lovely Bigourdane style house offers 5 bedrooms, a large living room, in very good decorative order, in grounds of 1,800m² with a swimming pool, with an option to purchase a further 1,500m² of potential building land.
On the ground floor, (135m² habitable), the entrance hall leads, a kitchen / dining room (15m²). Also from the entrance hall, a hallway leads to the East to an office area (6.5m²), a shower room (7m²) and the two first bedrooms of 12m² and 14m².
To the left of the entrance hall you find the superb living room (60m²) with french windows opening on to a very pleasant terrace, a fireplace, and a lovely wild cherrywood bookcase - all in all a lovely room.
There is no real need for any renovation or redecoration, and all the materials are of the highest quality, and all the woodwork is in solid oak.
A rather splendid oak staircase takes you to the first floor galleried landing, which serves three further bedrooms, two of which have doors on to the Eastern balcony, and a bathroom (with access direct to one of the bedrooms), and a large room (40m²) which is currently being used as a games room.
These rooms are also in very good decorative and restorative order.
The basement measures the entire size of the ground floor (135m²) and is currently divided into a cellar, covered barbeque area, shower, garage, and pool house.
Outside, the Southern terrace offers wonderful views of the surrounding countryside and the Pyrenean mountain chain beyond, as well as of the very pleasant mature and enclosed gardens of 1,800m² (possibility of 3,300m²).
There is also a very good quality and security fenced swimming pool.
The construction is traditional, the roof is tiled, the thermal insulation is good (double insulated walls), the windows are wood framed and single glazed, there is electric heating augmenting the effect of the open fires (there is soon to be the possibility of connecting to town gas), and there is mains drainage.
The property is close to all shops, banks and schools, and faces South with great views of the Pyrenees from its enclosed gardens of 1,800m² (or 3,300m² for a further 89,000 euros - total 533,000 euros).
It is situated just 5 minutes from Tarbes, and from the station (TGV) and from the motorway, 20 mins from Lourdes, 1 hour from Spain and from the lower ski slopes, 45 mins from Pau (Ryanair), 1hr 30mins from Toulouse (Easyjet, Flybe, BMIBaby, Aer Lingus), 2 hours from Biarritz and the Atlantic beach resorts, and 2hrs 40mins from the Mediterranean.
