Incredibly charming old farmhouse located in a hamlet of just 4 houses close to the villages with amenities of Saint-Germain-Les-Belles and Linards in the county of Haute-Vienne. The property has been completely renovated with extreme attention to authentic detailing and to the preservation of its original aesthetic qualities. A word of advice for our fishermen friends, don’t forget to bring your rods, because a small stream flows along the edge of the property, which adds yet another special note to an already idyllic spot.

A well renovated house
The current living space is made up of the original house and of various annex buildings which have also been renovated. One enters the house directly into a 25’5”x19’6” main living room displaying splendid, exposed beams and stones (antique pebble floor), with a wood burner fitted within the open stone fireplace. A stone staircase hidden under a pneumatic lockable hatch runs down to the cellar located under the kitchen part of the room. Once in the cellar, one can admire the impressive rock face the house is built upon! The other solid wood staircase runs up to a 24’9”x8’8” bedroom with an en-suite bathroom and WC and a dormer window. From the main open-plan kitchen/living room, French doors open out onto a renovated stone-paved terrace to the rear, from which one can enjoy a view overlooking the property’s grounds and the stream that meanders along their edge.

To the left of the house, a small internal staircase leads down to an old bread oven and a stable. Both have been brought together to form a sort of small comfortable gîte. The oven’s vaulted area is still there, but in its front chimney, there is now an almost new high-quality Godin cast iron log burner. The 13’1”x12’3” bakery now serves as an office with its French doors opening out to the front garden. A solid wood staircase leads up to a mezzanine bedroom located just above the bakery/office with its own stone open fireplace. To its left, in the adjoining former stable, you walk through a double saloon-type door into a bathroom with a uniquely designed walk-in shower, a WC and utility area. The hot water tank has been smartly fitted within a former wood-drying room located above the bread oven and can be accessed via a wall ladder in the bathroom.

To the right-hand side of the house, part of the barn has been converted into a spacious 21’3”x13’4” dining room with a travertine tiled floor incorporating historical details such as the exposed stone walls and stable beams of course, but also the old wooden frames through which cows used put their heads to eat in the adjoining troughs. A high-end Norwegian-lava stone log burner has recently been installed in the dining room. From this room, a staircase leads upstairs to a bedroom of the same proportions as the dining room below. It has an ensuite shower room with a toilet.

Structurally and technically in good condition, all the building benefit from new zinc guttering, freshly lime-repointed external walls. The house roof has been renovated and the moss removed from the tiles. One benefits from recent electricity and insulation, as well as an Up-To-Date septic tank. There is no real need for central heating here, as the log burners in the living and dining rooms do their job well. The gîte also has its own burner and there are recent electric heaters in all the rooms to use when the burners are not on.

The outbuildings
Adjoining the house, the second part of the barn (the old hay barn) is now a garage with 21’3”x14’7” of floor space. To its right, the stable (21’3”x11’4”) is used to store garden tools and wood. Above these two areas, a large convertible mezzanine area of over 400Sqft could allow to create an additional gîte, if one so wishes, two Velux windows having already been installed in the roof. Next to the house, separate 22’9”x8’8” pigsties with an attic above to store more wood and tools.

Large plot with a well and a stream
The house benefits from a clearly recognizable plot of almost 2 acres, bordered to the South by the small cul-de-sac access road leading to another lived-in house a little further up, as well as a second home. To the East, a grassy public path lined by a hazelnut hedge borders the plot. Finally, a stream zigzags to the North, across the widest part of the land, just like in fairy tales. On the South-facing front of the land, an old wooden fence with a hedge in front and a single and a double gate. Across the cul-de-sac, there is a small unused farmhouse that belongs to a farmer with a large piece of land his cattle grazes on.

Access and amenities
The property is just over five minutes from the villages of Linards and Saint-Germain-les-Belles with their respective small shops (including bakeries of course!), two primary schools, a middle school and a swimming lake with a campsite that is popular with tourists in the Summer. The centre of Limoges is 30 minutes away and its airport 40 minutes by car.