Description

Dordogne – 19 acre estate with cottage and 2 luxury gîtes – €844,600

What’s for sale?
- a 19 acre estate in central Dordogne: a former farm with three main buildings, two of which are let as holiday homes (gites).

- Gite 1: a large, stone built Dordogne house of 240m², with 5 bedrooms, 2 reception, large farm fitted kitchen, 4 bathrooms, utility room, terrace, patio, private 10×8-metre secure, walled swimming pool, cellar. Electric heating, open fireplaces, wood-burning stove.

- Gite 2: solid stone built house of 245m², with farm kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 very large reception rooms equipped with French windows, library mezzanine, patio and 12×8 metre secure, private pool. Both oil-fired and wood-fired central heating.

- Cottage of 95m²: at present used as owner’s dwelling: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, living room and patio …. and, in the basement (45m²): laundry room, spacious office, wine cellar.
- two garages, two car ports
- games room
- storage cellar
- secure room (re-enforced steel doors)
- 190m² barn
- summer kitchen – spacious 45m² with barbecue
- 3.2 hectares of mixed woodland
- 3 hectares of meadow
- 1 hectare of Douglas Fir and Poplar (15 years old)
- play area with sandpit, swings, slide, playhouse, badminton/volleyball pitch

This is the architype of a Dordogne estate: discreet, luxurious and well appointed. A few hundred metres out of a typical Périgourdine village and one is in a world of quiet comfort, tranquility and ‘away from it all’. But make no mistake: this is a business for sale, a going concern which brings in a tidy 50,000 euro a year ($64,000) for 15 weeks work.

The photographs below begin to give an idea of what already exists: the two marvellous gîtes with their authentique charm and refined luxury, the cheerful cottage, the pools and the outhouses. But they don’t show the potential: the 190m² surface area of the stone barn is crying out for a spectacular transformation: three ensuite B&B rooms overlooking the courtyard? A gallery? A restaurant? A third gîte with duplex rooms and balcony? Even keeping just the existing arrangement but cranking up the marketing could double the present income.

The grounds are disposed as to protect the houses: woods between the house and the road, meadows and orchards near the house and a wild wood for mushrooms, blackberries and animals. A stand of 15-year-old Douglas firs is, in reality, a cash crop to be exploited in 10 or so years time.

The local village has eveything one wants from a picturesque French village: café, restaurant, baker and general store. High schools, chemists and supermarkets in Excideuil or Hautefort just 8 kms drive. Périgueux and Brive are 35 minutes away for everything else . The famous Lascaux cave is only 30 minutes away.