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9554AW47 Price €250,000
Charming stone built house with delightful garden, 2 reception rooms, 3 bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and large barn
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Property Summary
In a lovely location with distant views of the village and surrounding countryside. Delightful garden with stream that feeds a goldfish pond. Two bedrooms and bathrooms on the ground floor. Many fruit trees and a vegetable plot. Walking distance to the village.
Property Description
A house in the middle of the countryside, yet only a 10 minute walk to Levignac with doctor, dentist, bakers, butcher, pharmacy and village store. Surrounded by fields and orchards and with a delightful garden in which a stream is pumped from a well, through the garden to a goldfish pond. Lots of shrubs, trees and fruit trees. There are terraces on 3 sides of the house, including a covered terrace with views of the village - ideal for dining on summer evenings Two bedrooms and bathrooms are on the ground floor, all with direct access to the garden. You enter the house via the living room and kitchen in which there is a log burner. Dining room off with stairs to first floor. The first floor houses a bedroom with bathroom and a large room of almost 20m2 that could be a second living room when finished. Levignac is a lively village in the summer with a Friday night gourmet market during July and August. 50 minutes to Bergerac airport, 1 hour 18 minutes to Bordeaux
Location in France
The Lot-et-Garonne has been called the Tuscany of France because of its yellow fields of sunflowers, vineyards, cypress trees and red roofed buildings.
In the south-west corner of France, midway between Toulouse and Bordeaux. 2 hours to the Atlantic coast and the Pyrenees, 3 hours to the Mediterranean. This department of the Aquitaine is a must when searching for a house for sale in France. Excellent motorway and rail links and an airport at Bergerac with Flybe and Ryanair flying to destinations across England and Scotland.
An area full of unspoilt villages and bastide towns with maisons de maître, barns and village houses for sale, rivers and the canal latéral de la Garonne (part of the canal du Midi), up which the few remaining working barges still sail.
The views are expansive and comprise rolling hills and valleys of agricultural land. Much of the produce grown is well known in France - prunes of Agen, tomatoes and strawberries of Marmande, Armagnac brandy, apples, pears, kiwis and cherries. It is also a prolific wine growing area with Duras and Buzet being the most well known.
On the foody front, the most recognisable of the region is duck in its many forms such as foie gras, magret and gésiers. You can't help passing duck farms as you travel around that sell these products directly. Quite likely next to a vineyard selling their wine. Converted farmhouses are amongst many of Leggetts' properties for sale in the Lot-et-Garonne.
There are many chateaux in the Lot-et-Garonne including Biron, Lauzun, Lamothe, Scandaillac and Nerac, to name but a few. Medieval towns many of them bastides (of which there are 20) are to be found including Castillones, Monflanquin and Villereal. Top end properties such as manoirs are for sale in the department.
It is an exhilarating area for walking with much of the department marked out for ramblers and cyclists along paths where you'll meet hardly a soul. As most villages are part of these routes, it's quite likely to find one within walking distance of your French house.
All year round are morning markets in many towns and villages. The perfect place to meet friends and family over a coffee or something stronger. This really is life unchanged for centuries. During the summer months, many of these towns hold lunchtime and evening producers' markets, where food and drink is consumed in a convivial environment.
You would expect life in the Lot-et-Garonne to be unhurried. Well, it is in the winter, when, in front of the fire, we put up our feet with a glass of wine, but the summer is quite different.
The château at Duras, for example, plays host to opera, classical concerts and the occasional rock concert. There are the producers' markets, wine fairs, antique fairs, village fetes and the "vide greniers" – France's wonderful alternative to the car boot sale - a must for any collector. You could furnish your house in France!
