Languedoc-Roussillon, Aude, Canet, France

The front gate opens into a 27.2m² garden with paving, gravel and decking between the planting and an old wine press. There's an outside store of 4.75m²; and fully sliding glazed doors open onto a veranda of 14.27m². The front door of the house leads into a hall of 7.77m², and to the right, there is a 12.8m² lounge, study or bedroom.

A circulation space of 9m² gives access to a pretty shower room with heated towel rail, and then to the living area, with its large country-style open fireplace, two pairs of glazed double doors and a double-glazed fixed window, to allow maximum light from the garden.

This space includes a dining area and kitchen, and totals 36.3m². It has lovely exposed timber beams, and the doors open out onto a large timber-decked terrace of 34.5m², with an outside living-room suite. Next to this is an exterior dining area of 16.25m² and a summer kitchen with barbecue.

At the end of the garden is the gorgeous 4 by 8 metre pool and its paved terraces, and there is a special drying area for clothes, plus cypress, olive, oleander, fig, viburnum and lilac trees, bamboo and lavender.

From the inner hall in the house, where there are two store cupboards and a wine rack, a Japanese-style lacquered staircase leads to the upper landing of 12.38m². Overlooking the garden is a spacious bedroom of 13. 87m² plus a hanging cupboard, and the very large bathroom with corner bath and double table top with two washbasins (14.18m²).

Next to this is a separate WC of 2m², a dressing room of 3.44m² and a utility room of 2.12m². There are two bedrooms facing south, each has a hanging cupboard; one is 13m² and the other 13.77m². The whole first floor has exposed timber ceilings.

There are two glazed doors onto the balcony, which faces south onto the front garden, and is approx. 13.8m². There is double or secondary glazing to almost all the windows, also fly-screens and electric roller shutters on the first floor windows. The heating is by programmable electric heaters.

Canet, 2.8 km away, has a grocery, tabac-presse, mercerie, café/restaurant, pizzeria, a medical centre and pharmacy, bakery and butcher's shop. For larger supermarkets, service stations and a huge Wednesday market, Lézignan-Corbières is only 6 km away. The new Narbonne hospital is 9 km, Narbonne itself is 16 km, the sea is 33 km, Carcassonne is 42 km and Béziers 44 km. Spain is 107 km - an hour and 10 minutes' drive.