Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Yzeures-sur-Creuse, France

A41364AF37 - The properties are situated at the edge of a quiet hamlet within walking distance of amenities. The main house has beautiful painted solid wooden shutters and on entering the property you are greeted with a large open plan living area with exposed wooden beams and a woodburner at one end, which heats the sitting room as well as the main living space and a wood burning stove and kitchen/dining area at the other, with patio doors leading directly out onto the patio and garden at the rear. Off to the right is a utility room which has an oil fired boiler, which just needs an oil tank fitting and connecting to give central heating too, if required. The family bathroom and access to the side garden and barn conversion are also at this end of the cottage. At the other end of the cottage, off the main living room to the left, is a sitting room and also a staircase leading to a first floor bedroom with exposed roof beams. To the outside is an attached garden with covered area for keeping wood dry, parking space, a ruin and the barn conversion. The barn conversion has a large open plan living room with wood burner and is open onto the kitchen, a shower room and a bedroom on the mezzanine level is accessed via the spiral staircase in the kitchen area. The property also benefits from a separate garden plot with some fruit trees and a wooded area too. Situated towards the southern end of Touraine, this charming home is in an excellent location close to all of the local amenities Yzeures sur Creuse has to offer including bars, restaurants, supermarket, school, library, museum, church, bakery, park etc. Also nearby is the picturesque and historical thermal spa town of La Roche-Posay, just a short drive from this property. This elegant town is teeming with restaurants and cafes is famous for its thermal bath cures and spa centres that use the exceptional qualities of the natural spring water for their treatments and products produced locally. It also boasts a casino and racetrack - with about six race meetings per year and even has its own golf course and cinema! Whether you feel like exploring the wine growing areas of the Loire with its many Chateaux or the medieval villages of the area, such as Angles sur L'Anglin nominated as one of France's "Beaux Villages", Loches where Joan of Arc met with the King of France or Amboise, the resting place of Leonardo da Vinci. Yzeures sur Creuse is only 25 km from the nearest TGV station and A10 motorway at Châtellerault and approximately 1 hr from 2 Ryanair served airports (Poitiers and Tours). All major channel ferry ports are between 4 and 6 hours drive.