House In Village, Ideal Holiday Home

Firstly you enter a light and airy kitchen/sitting room/dining room with original floorboards and efficient wood burner. The kitchen is modern with beautiful oak work tops and appliances with an option to buy fridge/freezer if you require. Under the stairs is a toilet and space for a washing machine.

As you go up the stairs, you arrive in a bright hallway which leads to two spacious bedrooms with original floor boards, large windows and high ceilings. Off the second bedroom is a well presented ensuite shower room with basin and toilet.

On the third floor there is a huge airy loft conversion with beautiful vaulted ceiling and original floor boards. This could be used for a bedroom, art studio or another sitting room, a real retreat from the outside world with a Juliet balcony looking out to the countryside and village.

Under the property is a large insulated cellar with a well, which is great for storage as well as providing another source for water.

This property has untaken major improvements including double-glazing, insulation and wiring which has been completed in the last three years.

Tax Fonciere is around 384 euros a year.

As this property is set in a busy village you have all amenities; tobacconist/bar/garage, two shops, wood merchant, a doctor, a baker, a school, a post office and pharmacy.

The village provides a local swimming pool, football team, tennis courts, fishing lake, village de vacances, local fetes and beautiful bike/velo, walks to discover.

Locally there is also golf clubs, archery, racing circuit and fishing.

Other schools, supermarkets, restaurants and hospital are only a ten minute drive away in the local town of Confolens. There are three airports nearby. Limoges 40 minutes by car, with Poitiers and Angouleme about an hour's drive away.

This house is an opportunity to become really involved in french living either as a holiday retreat or permanent home.

The department of Charente is located in the centre-west of France and is part of the Poitou-Charentes region along with Deux Sevres, Charente Maritime and the Vienne department.

Its name as is often the case comes from the river Charente which snakes through the department. Two local dialects are spoken in the area, Saintongeais in the west and Occitan to the east.

Charente is a thriving department for several reasons, Cognac production is one of the most interesting and profitable industries, the export level of approx. 95% is a success, the consumption in France being only 5% (some say they keep the best 5% in France!).

The department has many typical towns, Angouleme in the south east for example hosts an international festival that attracts hundreds of visitors and is not to be missed.

The region is popular with hikers, bikers and nature lovers who like to discover the woodlands, lakes and streams that are part of this amazing landscape.

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