Poitou-Charentes, Vienne, Sérigny, France

A36353TAL86 - Entering the property, you find yourself in a beautiful courtyard with curved driveway, lawn and established trees and shrubs,including a glorious mulberry as well as a fig tree. Various buildings border this courtyard and there is an additional huge garden beyond, making almost a hectare in total.

To the right is the main house, currently offering approximately 170m² of living space, featuring exposed stone, both inside and out. Exposed beams and huge stone fireplaces, along with traditional tomette flooring, lends to the classically chic French look. The large, high-ceilinged rooms, perhaps due to all of the natural materials, wood-burning stoves and tasteful decor, manage to retain a cosy feeling in spite of their size. This house is built in the typical longère style, meaning that on either side of the welcoming entrance hall, the rooms lead onto one another - to the left, a 40m² living room and then a bedroom, to the right, the 40m² dining room, then kitchen, then utility. Behind the entrance hall is a bathroom with walk-in shower, washbasin and WC. The house is currently arranged as a beautiful and spacious single-storey dwelling but there is in fact the potential to develop a whole extra level upstairs, effectively doubling your living space and adding bedrooms for as many as necessary.

Opposite the main entrance to the courtyard is another building, containing various storage spaces and an enormous garage at ground level, from which ancient stone steps descend deep underground to the most stunning cave, believed to have once been part of an extended local network. Above is the gîte (130m²), featuring 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an open plan kitchen / diner / sitting room and a utility room. The gîte, which was successfully rented out for several seasons until recently, is accessed from the far side of this building, where the garden has been hedged off to create a private space for guests. Although the style here is more modern, we still see the exposed beams and, yet again, everything has clearly been very thoughtfully renovated and well cared for.

A gatehouse (previously a separate house) is already partially converted and could make another very attractive smaller gîte. There is also the possibility of fencing off a section of lawn to give it its own private garden, or even to sell it off entirely. A couple of other small outbuildings complete the ensemble and the large garden surrounded by fields enjoys stunning and far-reaching views. This could be the perfect place to run a holiday business or for extended family to stay close together but separately.