Poitou-Charentes, Vienne, Sérigny, France

The house sits in a large fully-fenced garden surrounded by open countryside, offering complete privacy, though there are a few neighbours in the hamlet. A double gate opens onto the driveway, which in turn leads to a parking area, while most of the garden is laid to lawn with various mature trees, bushes and flowers.

The entrance door leads straight into the large living room (30m²), with a corner stone fireplace with insert fire, a staircase goes up in the opposite corner and double patio doors lead onto a paved terrace overlooking the garden and fields beyond. From this room there is a door through to the unfinished annex.

Down a couple of steps from the living room a corridor leads firstly to a utility room / downstairs bathroom (9m²) with washbasin, shower, WC, space and plumbing for a washing machine and dryer and extensive built-in kitchen-style storage. At the other end the corridor opens out onto the fitted kitchen (21m²), the rear wall of which is almost entirely glazed in a combination of patio doors and windows reaching all the way up to the landing upstairs, which doesn’t quite reach the wall, creating a mezzanine effect.

These patio doors open onto the rear courtyard garden, also laid to lawn and hedged on one side, edged by the inner “L” of the house and annexe on two sides and walled on the fourth. There is currently no gate to the path down the side of the house from here but one could easily be added if you wanted to let pets or children out in a limited area for ease of surveillance.

Going up the wooden stairs from the living room, there is a long landing with further small runs of steps along it between each bedroom, and plenty of built-in storage. Along the hallway there are feature floor spotlights. At the front of the house is the third bedroom (17.5m²) with built-in wardrobes all along one wall. In the middle section the second bedroom (17m²) with a large built-in wardrobe and an ensuite bathroom (4m²) with WC, shower, and vanity unit with washbasin.

Off the final section is the current master bedroom with fitted wardrobes with built-in dressing table, and the best views over the garden and fields beyond. The corridor here also leads to a large bathroom, with WC, vanity unit with twin washbasins, and whirlpool bath with overhead shower. There is also a door leading from this floor to the upstairs of the unfinished annex at the end of this hall.

The annex consists of 45m² downstairs with a mostly tiled floor, and lots of natural light with patio doors and windows to both front and back of the room (all double glazed). A new ceiling/floor was installed just over 3 years ago to create another 45m² upstairs, where there is another double-glazed window as well as access to the plumbing and extraction unit behind the main bathroom so it would be relatively simple to add another bathroom here if desired.

The property is fully double-glazed and also benefits from a well and a cellar/garden storage area.