Limousin, Creuse, St-Hilaire-la-Plaine, France

Set in a walled and gated garden, this is a large family home with a swimming pool and lots of outbuildings. A small annex could be converted to a studio or visitor snug, subject to the usual permissions. The large main barn houses a boiler room and workshop and is attached to the house. It can be accessed both internally from the house or from the garden.

A square entrance hall leads to the library/lounge, the dining/sitting room and the attached outbuilding. A double-sided wood-burning insert serves both reception rooms. There is a full length window and wooden staircase in the lounge leading to the upstairs at the left-hand side of the house. The large second reception room is bright and sunny with windows to the front and back. Off this room is the kitchen with fitted units and patio doors to the terrace. There is a WC and utility area which leads to a second staircase at the right-hand side of the house.

On the first floor there are 5 bedrooms, currently used as a mix of bedrooms, guest room, craft room and study. There is space in one section of corridor for a desk and bookcases.

Outside there is a separate, open garage/outbuilding (big enough to store and manoeuvre a horse box or campervan, and which the current owners also used to store hay for their horses), a swimming pool, and a large open hangar with hen coops (or for a table tennis table?).

From the other side of the house there is access to more outbuildings (former animal stabling with feeding troughs), and plenty of storage, running the full length of the property. There are two wells inside the outbuildings - one is used to water the garden. The large oil heating tank is also here.

The property is double glazed with oil-fired central heating.

A short walk away there is around a hectare of land. The current owners kept their horses here.