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ONLY 395,000 euros* - POITOU CHARENTE For YOUR own COUNTRY ESTATE set in a quiet lane. Secluded but not isolated. 200 yr old RENOVATED 6 bed FARMHOUSE, full oil fired central heating and large swimming pool. * just £310,000 approx - today’s exchange rates. Annexe with instant LETTING POSSIBILITIES. PLUS lge cottage for renovation. 1.5 secluded acres. Delightful renovated farmhouse, with working bread oven! on outskirts of delightful, friendly village, with church, boules’ square, small school, library with small Eng. book section, baker, (100 yds), and Mairie with Salle de Fetes. Village commune incs. 3 hamlets, plus outlying farms etc. Variety of events held for whole commune each yr, at the Salles de Fetes, or the lge picnic area in one of the hamlets. Everyone receives an invitation and is made welcome. Only 5 mins’ drive to small town with lge supermarket, lge d.i.y store/builders’ merchants, hairdressers, cake shops, banks, butchers, restaurants etc. Property is renovated and comprises 6 dble beds, 2 baths, wet room, living room, 20’ sq. Kitchen 20’ sq, with logburner and wonderful original stone floor. Another lge living room/2nd kitchen diner 25’ x 15’, a further reception rm 27’ x 8’6”, utility room, huge landing/study, plus room currently walk-in storage cupboard, but wd easily make another bathroom. Would be comparatively easy for all beds to have en-suite facilities. (All sizes approx.) Totally sep. annexe, can be 2 beds/1 bath or 4 beds/2 baths. Cellar in excellent cond. with elec. light. Oil central heating zoned, so parts can be turned off, or down, as nec. Boiler switches to heat pool - usually only nec. at beg/end of season. Farmhse has lge barn with concrete floor and gge 20’ sq approx, recently re-roofed. Working bread oven, in exc. condition, plus other outbuildings. Also has separate lge cottage (approx 2,500 sq ft) to renovate. Upstairs Cd be 4 beds, all en suite. We have basic plans. Downstairs 3 lge rooms, 2 approx 20’ sq plus another approx 27’ long, 19’ wide narrowing to 12’. Cott. has 100’ front gdn, with small barn with overhand (recently reroofed, plus large barn and land at rear. Cottage recently pointed but needs work, within the scope of an accomp. d-i-y person. Roof, walls and main grd floor sound, some new beams needed to create upstairs. Cd provide scope for long term rental, or hol. accomm. The total 1.5 acres land (hse & cott)is secluded and private, with small wood, orchard, big herb garden, lge swim.pool with terrace, plus huge paved overhang with bbq, providing shade from the sun, or eat outdoors even if it rains. Neighbours French, friendly & keep an eye on the property for us if we are. Poiters, Niort and Angouleme all approx 32 miles. Easy drive to La Rochelle, Vallee des Singes, silver mines at Melle and numerous other attractions. OTHER PICS:- Top row left to right:- As main pic, A Bedroom, working bread oven, rear view cottage, huge herb gdn (in background) plus one of the sitting areas around the estate. Lower row L to R:- Kitchen, overhang with bbq,heated sw. pool & terrace, front part of huge landging with study area (back half is equal size!) living rm with stone fireplace. SERIOUS HOUSE HUNTERS ONLY PLEASE