Attractive stone house with heated..

Attractive stone house with heated swimming pool

This 4-bedroom detached stone-built village house has spacious living accommodation, a pretty garden and a large heated swimming pool.

House

Ground floor

You enter into the large entrance hall/dining room (24m2) with tiled floor, exposed beams, pointed stone walls, and glazed double height doors to the terrace overlooking the pool. From here a staircase leads to the first floor landing with vaulted ceiling To the left, glazed doors lead to the sitting room (32m2), with its exposed ceiling beams, an original Charentaise fireplace with wood burner, and lovely chestnut flooring.

Continuing from here you enter the large kitchen/breakfast room (27m2, with door to the terrace, tiled floor, fully fitted wood units, featuring an oven, hob, cooker hood, dishwasher and fridge freezer. Off the kitchen is a useful laundry room (18m2), with plumbing, the central heating boiler, a WC and storage area.

To the right of the entrance hall is a useful office (16m2) with tiled floor, door to the terrace and pool. From here a door leads to a large wine cellar with gravel floor and exposed stone walls. If required this could be converted into a further bedroom and bathroom.

First floor

The staircase from the hall leads up to the galleried landing area- with chestnut flooring, exposed stone walls and vaulted ceiling- and to the four double bedrooms and two bathrooms.

The master bedroom (22m2) overlooks the garden, carpet, and features a vaulted ceiling with exposed beams and fitted wardrobes. Bedroom 2 (20m2) also looks onto the garden, and has carpeted floor, vaulted ceiling, and exposed beams. Bedroom 3 (12m2) has a window to the front, chestnut floor and built in wardrobe, while bedroom 4 (11m2) has a chestnut floor and window overlooking the lane to the side.

There is a tiled shower room featuring glass shower cubicle, pedestal wash-basin, WC and heated towel rail, and a family bathroom with tiled wall and floor, bath, separate shower cabinet, wash-basin, WC and heated towel rail.

Exterior

There is a 11m x 5m swimming pool to one side of the garden, with a spacious stone terrace with solar heated shower, enclosed with a secure fencing system. The pool is heated via a heat exchange pump. The timber pool house houses the pool pump and controls.

The attractive walled garden is part lawned and part gravelled, with many sitting areas for that all-important morning coffee or evening glass of wine, and a wide variety of shrubs, perennials, fruit trees and climbers.

Attached to the house is a large garage and a larger workshop storage area.

The property is in excellent condition throughout and benefits from oil fired central heating, good insulation and hard wood double glazing and shutters throughout.

The boulangerie is just a short walk from the house and all other major amenities are just a few minutes' drive in the neighbouring town of Chef Boutonne.