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SCD1911 Price €130,800
Detached Country House, Set in Half an Acre, No Work to do, offers considered around £131k !!
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Property Summary
Surrounded by beautiful open countryside this detached house with character, beams, fireplace and fitted kitchen. Less than 5 minutes to the pretty village of Marthon with shops, restaurants and bars. The market towns of Montbron and Nontron are around 15 minutes away. Angouleme town centre the TGV station and the new airport are less than 30 minutes drive. Limoges, Poitiers and Bordeaux airports are all less than 90 minutes drive.
Property Description
This property has lounge-diningroom, with feature fireplace with wood burner insert, fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and wc's and two bedrooms on the first floor. The woodburner provides for excellent heating throughout this property and there are also newly installed oil-filled radiators. Good views across the Charente countryside. The attached garage is of a good size and has an entrance into the house, the garden is mainly laid to lawn and is about half an acre and easily maintainable. This property is just twenty minutes from Angoulemes airport, which opened in Spring 2008. It is also about an hours drive to Limoges or Poitiers Airport also offering discount flights to the UK.
Location in France
The Charente department is home to over 340,000 inhabitants and is located in the south-east of Poitou-Charentes. The countryside offers a unique and varied environment for walkers and mountain bikers from rolling hills in the east to a flatter landscape in the west. The northern area is wild with deep forests and peaks reaching to over 1000ft. The Charente has long relied on agriculture to fuel its economy. In the 18th Century, however, the department started mass producing its infamous Cognac drink, which proved extremely popular with people from all over the world.
The department is very well situated for expatriates looking to purchase French property here, with great roads down to the Charente and the Channel ports just a short days drive away. The department has access to Poitiers, La Rochelle, Bordeaux, Bergerac and Limoges airports, all within 2 hours. Furthermore, in the centre of the department you will be able to fly from either Gatwick or Stanstead direct to the Angouleme Champniers-Brie airport .
Angouleme is a small yet cosmopolitan city, with a fairly dynamic feel about the place when compared to the neighbouring Dordogne or Haute Vienne. It hosts a lot of events such its vintage car racing (the Circuit des Remparts) which takes place in September , the cartoon festival in January and a great music scene which just seems to get better every year . Both Cognac and Confolens have annual festivals which attract tourists to the area.
The Charente has an immensely varied countryside bordering 5 departments, famous for both its Cognac vineyards in the west, and its Limousin beef production in the east, which in terms of scenery are worlds apart. The valley of the Charente River meanders down from Ruffec in the north through Angouleme onto Jarnac and Cognac. Confolens in the East of the department is situated on the banks of the majestic River Vienne, this area being known as the Charente Limousine, and is extremely popular with expatriates because it looks and feels like the UK. The south of the county which borders the Charente Maritime has a much better climate but less undulating scenery.
