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10258SBY16 Price €162,000
BACK ON! Realistically priced DETACHED barn conversion with 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms an acre of pretty gardens near Ruffec
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Property Summary
Attractive longhouse style barn conversion, recently finished with large gardens a 15 minute walk to the picturesque village of Nanteuil en Vallee, 10 minute drive from Ruffec-must be viewed!
Property Description
This is a spacious, newly converted property; with lots of lovely character features-even the bread oven has been retained in the dining room! A single storey detached property; this house can offer you flexible accommodation with large gardens all around the house, including a lovely fruit orchard. 3 bedrooms, the master a really great spacious room with lovely en-suite wet room with WC. The 2 other bedrooms are at the other side of the house, one with door out to the garden, just superb on those warm summer evenings, and the other has a wash handbasin. The family bathroom is nicely finished and has a WC and airing cupboard. The kitchen opens onto the large dining room for easy entertaining, and this leads through to the huge living room which has high ceilings, old beams, really characterful. Outside, the pretty gardens and orchard areas surround the property, with a large hangar attached to the property-ideal for storage, and a private drive with parking for at least 5 cars. There is scope for further development-please ask. Due to ill health a little finishing is needed-skirtings, etc. The price is negotiable please ask for details... A 15 minute walk takes you into into the picturesque village of Nanteuil en Vallée, which has 2 fantastic restaurants, a pharmacy, a grocers shop, etc Less than a 10 minute drive takes you to the lovely market town of Ruffec, which has a train station making travel to Poitiers, Paris, London very easy indeed. The house is also ideally situated within an hour of 3 budget airports, Limoges, Poitiers and Angouleme This property is extremely flexible and could be easily used as 2 properties side by side with own gardens-come and see!
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.
