Charming village fermette for modernisation

Charente 16, Poitou-Charentes

€224,700

Agency Fees Included? Yes

Property details

Ref:

CIC1593

Property type:

Farmhouse

Location:

Bassac near Jarnac and Angouleme

Region:

Poitou-Charentes

Département:

Charente 16

Habitable Space:

200 m²

Summary

This pretty and spacious village farmhouse will require modernisation, but is in a lovely setting with walled gardens, outbuildings and scope to enlarge the habitable accommodation.

Property description

House

Ground floor

The front door opens to the entrance hall (15 sq m) with terracotta tiled floor. To the right a door opens to a reception room (33 sq m) with Charentaise stone fireplace and a traditional Charentaise cupboard built into the wall. To the far side of the room a door opens to a small outbuilding (originally the wash house).

To the left of the entrance hall a door opens to a second reception room (31 sq m) with a carved stone fireplace and overmantle. From here a door opens to a room (25 sq m - originally the kitchen) with another Charentaise fireplace. To the far side of the kitchen a door opens to an attached barn.

First floor

A wooden staircase rises from the rear of the entrance hall to the first floor landing. To the left is a bedroom (33 sq m) with wooden floor and carved stone fireplace and overmantle. Directly opposite the staircase is a small room (8 sq m - potential bathroom) which is directly above the entrance hall. To the right of the landing is a suite of two bedrooms (33 sq m and 24 sq m - one leading into the next). Both rooms have carved stone fireplaces and overmantles. A door from the second bedroom opens to the attached barn (same as the kitchen below).

Barns

To the side of the kitchen and the third bedroom is an attached barn into which it coul dbe possible to extend the living accommodation.

To the rear of the entrance hall a door opens to a barn that runs the entire width of the house (about 100 sq m).

To one side of the frot courtyard garden is a row of smaller outbuildings (former wash house acessible from the first reception room and a hen house. To the other side of the courtyard garden are some other small outbuildings.

Gardens

The property sits on a plot of 2260 sq m. To the front of the property is a lovely courtyard garden, mainly laid to lawn with some mature weeping willows. This walled garden has a fin Charentaise porched entrance which opens to the village lane. To the rear of the property is a large walled garden.

This is a charming house, in a pretty riverside village, has huge potential and still retains many of its original features. There is a small bar/restaurant in the village and all the facilities of Jarnac are just a ten minute drive.

Fast facts

Heating system: none
Sanitation system: none
Nearest shop: Châteauneuf-sur-Charente 6km
Nearest Bar: 100m
Distance to town: Châteauneuf-sur-Charente 6km / Jarnac 10 km