An old, well-restored dwelling with a pool, guesthouse, barn and looseboxes, tucked away among hills in a hamlet in France's Tarn-et-Garonne departmen
An old, well-restored dwelling with a pool, guesthouse, barn and looseboxes, tucked away among hills in a hamlet in France's Tarn-et-Garonne department.
The property is nestled among the hills of France's beautiful Quercy province in the west of the country's Tarn-et-Garonne department. It lies in a landscape of limestone plateaus, meadows and farmland that characterises this local area. Around the property, there is a series of old villages and bastides - small, fortified grid-plan towns that were built in south-west France in the Middle Ages. These picturesque places, which include Montaigu-de-Quercy, Roquecor and Beauville, bring life to the local area and offer shops for basic needs. You can reach the city of Agen in around 40 minutes. Its train station is on the Paris-Bordeaux-Toulouse rail line. And you can get to the city of Montauban in around 50 minutes. The property is tucked away in a rural backd-rop that is typical of France's Quercy province. It is made up of gently undulating land dotted with quaint villages.
A country lane leads to the property. This lane leaves the main road and takes you to a discreet hamlet made up of a handful of old dwellings. The property's buildings are set back slightly from this hamlet. The grounds cover around 8,000m² and gaze out at farmland and woods that punctuate this corner of France's beautiful Quercy province. The main house forms the heart of the property. It is an old stone dwelling with a plan that is almost perfectly square-shaped. The edifice has a garden-level floor, a raised ground floor and a first floor in the roof space. Its limestone elevations are punctuated with evenly spaced rectangular windows fitted with wooden shutters. An outdoor flight of stone steps leads up to the main entrance door on the raised ground floor - a traditional arrangement in local rural architecture that made it possible to keep the ground floor separate from agricultural uses. A hipped roof of barrel tiles crowns the house. At the foot of the stone steps, a grassy, tree-dotted expanse lies in a commanding position. Here you can admire the surrounding countryside. The outbuildings, also made of stone and tiles, stand around the house. A self-contained guesthouse, smaller in size, offers a floor area of around 60m². It has its own terrace and little private garden. This guesthouse can be used to host friends and family, who can enjoy independence in it. An agricultural outhouse made of stone completes the collection of buildings. In this stone building, there is a barn and several extra spaces, including looseboxes for horses and a technical installations room. Beside the house, there is a well that still has water. And in front of the main house, at the foot of one of its side elevations, a rectangular swimming pool lies beside a lawn where you can gaze out at the countryside. The various buildings are well spaced out over the whole plot, at an appropriate distance from one another. This leaves space for clear vistas of the hills and fields around the hamlet. The small collection of buildings forms a coherent whole that is characteristic of rural properties in this corner of France's Tarn-et-Garonne department, where old dwellings, outbuildings and gardens are laid out beside historical houses set in an unspoilt landscape that has remained mainly agricultural.
The main houseThe main house is plain and balanced in form. It is built of exposed limestone. Its windows are evenly spaced, set in ashlar surrounds and fitted with swing shutters of painted wood. Its hipped roof of barrel tiles is underlined with a traditional génoise cornice. You reach the main entrance door via an outdoor flight of stone steps that leads up to a small terrace sheltered beneath a canopy upon timber posts. From this raised terrace, you step through the entrance door of painted wood beneath ...
