Pays de la Loire, Mayenne, Lignières-Orgères, France

Choose which property you wish to live in and holiday let the others:

1) 'The Manor House’: (156m2) - This property sleeps up to 12 adults and is popular with families and groups of friends who holiday together. The property is very spacious and has a ‘grand’ feeling about it with huge windows and 3.6m high ceilings. There are beautiful ‘fleur de lys’ tiles in the entrance hall, with wooden floors running throughout the ground and first floor. The house has its own fenced garden to the front. The roof was fully replaced in 2020.

Ground floor:
-Entrance hall with an impressive wooden staircase and beautiful ‘fleur de lys’ tiled floor (14m2)
-Downstairs lavatory with basin
-Very large kitchen with farmhouse table and two ovens, perfect for catering for big groups (32m2)
-Lounge room ( 12m2)
First floor:
-3 double bedrooms (24m2, 11m2, 10m2), each with their own ensuite bathrooms (2 ensuites with shower, basin WC, and 1 ensuite with bathtub, shower, basin and WC), wooden flooring throughout
Top floor:
-Communal games room (20m2)
-Bathroom (shower, basin, WC)
-3 twin bedrooms (7m2 each)
Air source heating/ air con unit

2) ‘Le petit gite’: (48m2) This property sleeps up to 3 adults and was fully renovated in 2018.
-Kitchen/Dining room (26m2)
-Bedroom (one king size bed, one single bed - 22m2)
-Bathroom (large walk in shower)
-Air source unit which does both Air Con and heating
-Central heating
-Fenced garden

3) The three bedroom house: (85m2)
Ground floor:
-Kitchen /dining/living room (29m2)
-Office (6m2)
-Downstairs bedroom/playroom (11m2)
First floor:
-Beautiful bedroom, wooden floors, built in cupboards with 2 sets of doors leading out onto a very narrow balcony (17m2)
-Bathroom with shower, basin, WC
Top floor:
-Bedroom with original tomettes flooring (12m2)
-Lounge (10m2)

4) The 1 bedroom family annex: (30m2)
Ground floor:
-Kitchen/dining/living room (16m2) with builtin storage cupboards
First floor:
-Bedroom with carpet (14m2)
-Bathroom tiled with shower, basin and WC
Air source air conditioning unit

There is a brand new Biomass heating system that is being installed which will serve all four houses for both hot water and heating.
Note: The new biomass heating system can burn all types of fuel, woodchip, straw, miscanthus, even horse poo! There is enough woodland on the land to sustainably run the boiler every year.
Planning permission has been granted to put solar (10kw) on one of the barn roofs which would be enough to serve the entire estate for most of the year.

The Barns:

-Hangar- 3 sided (24 x 12m) 3 phase electric and mains water
-Hangar- 3 sided (20 x 8m) 3 phase electric and mains water
-Stone barn- (21 x 8m) 3 phase electric and mains water- this is the barn with planning permission to have solar installed on the roof.
-Stone barn- (16 x 14m) 3 phase electric and mains water- new roof in 2020
-4 stone built stores- all with electric supplies

The Land:

-Approximately 44 acres (17.45 hectares)
-Fully stock fenced boundary
-Cider apple orchard
-Pond
-Polytunnel (10 x 4m)
-Farm Walk: The farm walk runs around the outside of the boundary fence (The property has been fenced a few meters inside of the actual boundary to allow space for the walk). This allows guests to walk around the farm without actually being able to enter onto the land . The path is 2km long and is a great attraction for the gite business because no one else in the area has anything like it. There are information boards, games, an animal hunt, swings and a woodland slackline on the walk so there is plenty to see and do for both adults and children.

The area
The property has no immediate neighbours, and is surrounded on all 4 sides by countryside. The quiet road that passes in front of the property leads directly to the village and to the nearest town which is a 7 minute drive away.
The property is located 800m from the village centre. The village has a bakery, post office, hairdressers and primary school.

Situated within the stunning Normandy Maine National Park, bordered by the forest, it is an ideal location to access the GR22 (which passes directly through the village) and many other routes for walking, cycling and horse riding.

There are countless places to visit and things to do in the area including Chateaus, rivers and lakes, animal parks and zoos, horse riding, canoeing and kayaking, the famous horse displays at La Michaudière, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, horse racing and much more.

La Ferte Mace is less than a 20 minutes drive away and has a beautiful swimming lake with fishing, bicycle hire, paddle boarding, pedalos anda cafe. There is also a golf course and a horse riding centre next to the lake and many large supermarkets, shops and great restaurants. Bagnoles de L’Orne, the famous Spa town is just 25 minutes away and has spas, a golf course, fantastic restaurants and gorgeous boutique shops, a cinema and a casino on the beautiful lake. Saint-Céneri-Le-Gérei, previously voted the prettiest village in France, is just 25 minutes away and it is just one hour from Le Mans with the famous 24 hour races.

30 mins (33kms) to Motorway A28 for directions North and South
1h14 (96kms) to Oustreheim/Caen ferries
3h (223kms) to Paris