A 19th-century farmhouse of white stone with a swimming pool, outbuildings and vast grounds, 15 minutes from the town of Lauzerte in France's beautifu
A 19th-century farmhouse of white stone with a swimming pool, outbuildings and vast grounds, 15 minutes from the town of Lauzerte in France's beautiful Quercy province.
The hamlet of Tréjouls lies 35 minutes from the towns of Cahors and Montauban. It is tucked away in an undulating landscape of sun-kissed valleys in south-west France's historical Quercy province in the country's Tarn-et-Garonne department. The hillside hamlet has a remarkable environment, with five zones of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest. The Causses du Quercy regional nature park is around 30 minutes away by road. There is a primary school and sports facilities. Many local producers in a two-kilometre radius offer bread, vegetables, fruit and poultry. By car, you can find shops eight minutes away and larger ones 15 minutes away. Toulouse international airport is one hour and ten minutes from the property.
A lane snakes through the hamlet to a private, tarmacked court where you can move around smoothly and park vehicles, in the shade of a leafy horse-chestnut tree. This court, edged with shrubs and potted plants, links the different buildings together. On one side, there is a house of white Quercy stone with a ground floor and first floor. It is crowned with a gable roof of barrel tiles with a dormer on the south side and it is edged with a terrace, beyond which there is a garden with a swimming pool and meadows that extend across the hillside. Opposite the house, there is an outbuilding of white stone with a three-slope roof of barrel tiles. There is also an agricultural storage building with a three-slope roof, mostly of barrel tiles. The property lies at the edge of the hamlet and offers a magnificent view of the lush, wooded hills of the River Barguelonne valley. The house's north elevation is coated with rendering and punctuated with eight openings, including two doors and five upstairs windows. They are fitted with shutters that are painted white. The western gable wall is made of exposed stonework and has three rectangular windows. On the first floor, these windows are set in white ashlar and fitted with similar shutters. The elevation on the opposite side has no openings. On the south side, plant containers and fragrant shrubs embellish a 30m² terrace of pale slabs that edges part of the south elevation, which is made of exposed stonework and brickwork. On the ground floor, there is a protruding section, which a second entrance door leads into. Three broad, rectangular windows look out from it. Upon this protruding section, there is a 40m² terrace edged with white-painted guardrails with a motif of circles. On the first floor, two windows fitted with shutters frame a door that leads out onto the terrace. These three openings, which are slightly arched, have surrounds of pale red brickwork.
The house
The ground floor
A canopy of glass and wrought iron extends above a secondary door - the most frequently used entrance. It leads into a hallway that connects to a 31m² office with built-in cupboards and a separate lavatory. On the other side, a 42m² reception space includes a lounge, an open-plan kitchen and a dining area, bathed in natural light from two broad windows. Two archways made in one of the house's original load-bearing walls are separated by a rectangular pillar. They mark the edge of the lounge, which has a terracotta brick fireplace with an oak mantelpiece. Wood strips painted dark red run across the lounge's ceiling. The lounge connects to a 30m² room and another hallway. This hallway, which has an archway, connects to a 25m² pantry on one side. This pantry has a separate door that leads outside. Straight ahead, three steps take you to a closed lobby with a northern entrance door.
The upstairs
The staircase has a white-painted balustrade with mouldings and a plain oak handrail. This ...
