Lovely SW facing three bedroom house with balcony, views, terrace, garden, and garage, close to facilities

This three bedroom house (semi detached) on a small quiet road, will make an ideal home or holiday home and is ready to move straight into, it is situated close to facilities within the lovely village of Peyrat Le Chateau. Available fully furnished if required, subject to agreement. It has beautiful views, especially from the balcony (with large new sun awning) off the main bedroom. Also benefits from a nice enclosed mature garden (mainly to South/South West to three sides), its own garage, cave and on road parking. The garden also benefits from various fruit trees (including mature fig, apple and peach) and other trees providing shade in the summer, as well as a vegetable patch and polly tunnel / greenhouse area. The house has double glazed windows with shutters, and a sunny front veranda (single glazed).

The entrance to the house is from the front garden (via a gate from the little road), and leads into a nice East facing veranda attracting the morning sunlight. A door to the left leads down into the cave. A door then leads into a hallway. To the right of the hallway is a tidy shower room with heated towel rail, large shelved cupboard, double glazed window and with a separate WC. From the hallway to the left is a bright and airy lounge with new log burner (fitted 2023 & “green flame”), large cupboard with fitted shelves and external French doors which leads onto the secluded terrace at the back of the house. To the right of the lounge is the kitchen with fitted cupboards, plumbed dishwasher, electric cooker hood extractor fan, electric point for a cooker, larder, and windows overlooking the terrace. The flooring is wooden floorboards or French tiles (possibly original).

A lovely wooden staircase (insulated underneath) leads upstairs to the three good size bedrooms, the staircase has a false wooden ceiling (insulated) that also provides access to the small loft (insulated). The main bedroom boasts a dressing area and access to the balcony (via French doors), which provides fantastic views overlooking the gardens, the village and the surrounding countryside. The balcony and terrace are in sunshine in the afternoon and well into the evening.

Outside, there is the nice private terrace, and a good size enclosed garden, ideal for growing vegetables etc. There is also a garage for private parking (with vehicular access from the road and a door from the garden) and also two very useful storage spaces / sheds. One of these outbuildings houses a traditional concrete bath previously used for laundry and with working hot/cold water taps.

The house was rewired around 2015 and is on the town’s main water and sewage system. Two new electric radiators were fitted in 2023, one is in an upstairs bedroom and the other is the towel rail / radiator in the shower room. There is an electric VMC / extractor fan that serves the shower room and kitchen, and there are electric ceiling fans in the lounge and main bedroom. Down in the cave, is an electric water heater (2023), fitted shelving, electric points and a plumbed in washing machine.

A nice short walk into Peyrat Le Chateau which has a beautiful leisure lake with beach, restaurants, cinema, bakery, Spar shop (5 min walk from the house), patisserie and communal BBQ area. More facilities are available in the nearby market town of Eymoutiers which has markets selling local produce, supermarket, and bars and restaurants. The magnificent Lac De Vassiviere is about a 15 minute drive away and has beaches, watersports, and cafes/restaurants. The house is located in one of the best areas in Europe for star gazing with little light pollution. The area is rich with wildlife, and is a great area for outdoor pursuits. The house is approximately one hour from Limoges airport.
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