Pretty Stone House with Cottage in Wooded Setting with a Pond & Terraces in Country Hamlet

Property Description

Summary
The main house & cottage are back to back each with it's own garden & private areas. All is set in a wooded area of the departement Charente, this spacious home is great for a family home or a holiday home with the added attraction of a cottage (110m2) which is already equipped with a new kitchen & bathrooms which require to be fitted & painting.
The house is shadee in summer with a beautiful linden tree, it's perfume attracting bees in the early summer.
At the side of the house there is a large pond covered in lilies in early summer with frogs & dragonflies.
2 main stone outhouses (workshop & stable/wood storage)also include a large roofed carport for 2 cars & shelter for logs & small tractor.
The ancient bread oven converted to a barbecue is situated on the terrace in front of the kitchen, beside the pond. The large property is composed of 3 main areas, 1 in front of the pond next to the lane; another enclosed for dogs or smaller animals, and a large section with a meadow & woods. A further 300m2 which belongs to the cottage was an excellent vegetable garden. This property is a perfect setting for keeping horses or/and other animals. The properties are bordered on one side by a house where quiet welcoming German neighbours live.

Location
40 minutes by car to Bordeaux centre.
7 km to Barbezieux St Hilaire. Barbezieux has all amenities, including a large supermarket, market, cinema, schools & swimming pool. Sports facilities including tennis, junior school in the local village of Condeon (1.5 km).

Many events during the summer.
25 minutes from Angoulême, the nearest large town where there is the annual comic strip festival every January.
This area is a historic part of France with many medieval churches & monuments, not forgeting the famous town of Cognac (30mins).

30 minutes from Aubeterre sur Dronne wherer there is a famous troglodyte church set in the rock face and a beautiful river: the Dronne and the Dordogne is 1 hour away,
Beside the house there is a 15 mins walk through the countryside to the renovated old grain mill overlooking the Condeon valley & village.

Access
5 minutes from the 4 lane dual carriage way, (free) to N10, Bordeaux (south) and Paris.

5 mins from Angoulême train station where the TGV's leave for Paris & Bordeaux many times a day (Angoulême to Paris in 2 hours).

Bordeaux, is only 50 minutes drive away with it's TGV train station to Paris or intenational airport.
Other nearby airports include: Bergerac (1h40), La Rochelle (1h40), Poitiers (1h45) & Limoges & direct trains to Paris from Angoulême.

Interior
Main house: Entrance hallway (10,6m²)
Bedroom downstairs (13.6m²) with a hardwood floor & chimney
A shower room (4.5m²)
A separate W.C.
Large lounge with a log fire (enclosed), double doors onto the garden, & A/C (29m²)
Kitchen and dining area are combined in 29m² with a log fire (enclosed), fitted kitchen.
Double doors lead onto the terrasse overlooking the lily pond.
Stairs in the lounge lead up to the landing where there is an office. (20m²) with beams.
2nd bedroom (master) (18m²) with it’ s own shower & wash area.
3rd bedroom (15m²).
Separate W.C. on the landing with wash basin.
The loft is easily accessible from the landing.
Double glazing throughout,
The roof was completely redone in 2020/21.
The cottage has 3 bedrooms, 1 downstaires with en suite shower room, WC, laundry room & kitchen; large high ceiling lounge with fireplace. Stairs to 2 bedrooms, shower room & WC. All the equipment to finish installing the kitchen, bathrooms, WC are on site. Outside there is a carport.

Exterior
Beautiful mature garden with large trees providing shade in the summer.
At the side of the house there is a large pond covered in lilies in the summer with frogs & fish.
A terrace beside an old bread oven provides a very pretty & attractive outdoor summer dining area.
There are 2 main outhouses, one is used as a workshop, the other much larger is useful for everything else you need to do, including parking a car.
A large roofed lean to is currently used for the car & as a shelter for logs.

Additional Details
The property is of 9450M2, excellent grazing area for horses or other animals. A smaller enclosed section for dogs. There are many trees on the property which enhances the beauty of the property.
The cottage has 400 m2 of garden including a covered carport.
Total land 9 900 m2.