Property Description
Located 8 minutes from Maubourguet, with a magnificent tree-filled garden measuring 6000 m² next to a river, this lovely home from the 18th century has a living space of 320 m² and is composed of 2 lounges, a kitchen, 5 bedrooms, a study, a linen room, a room for relaxing, 2 bathrooms (one with a shower and the other with a sauna), two toilets, a big outbuilding, a garage and a sun lounge.
The front door opens onto a big 9 m² entrance hall with a lovely staircase. To the left there is a 30 m² lounge with a beautiful fireplace and this room gives onto a 29 m² kitchen-cum-dining room that has a verandah. A hallway leads to the 8 m² storeroom/laundry. Another passage leads to a 25 m² study and then to a 12 m² bathroom with a shower. Next there is a toilet and then a 26 m² lounge with a fireplace insert. From here, you arrive back at the entrance hall.
Upstairs, the magnificent 9 m² landing has exposed beams, as does the rest of the house. The first bedroom measures 13 m², the second 16 m² and the third 21 m². The hallway leads to a 20 m² bedroom, a 5 m² boxroom, a toilet with a washbasin, a 13 m² shower-room with a sauna, a magnificent 12 m² linen room that gives onto a balcony and then a 14 m² bedroom. There is also a staircase leading to the garage and a wonderful room for relaxing that measures 37 m².
Next to the house there is a 20 m² garage with an oil storage tank, a 9 m² scullery that gives to the back of the house, a 4.5 m² cellar and a big 56 m² workshop. The 88 m² open shed can hold a car, boat or other machinery.
There are three different doors for entering the house: the front door, the verandah in the kitchen and by the garage. This makes bed-and-breakfast rooms or gîtes a wonderful possibility.
The magnificent garden measures 6000 m² and is planted with trees. It is next a river and has a covered clothes line, small sheds for tools, a 6 m² sun lounge and flowerbeds.
The central heating is supplied by a heat pump and an oil-fired boiler (backup during peak hours), and by a fireplace when needed. Some of the windows have double glazing (downwind side).
The roof is covered with picon tiles from the period and the construction is traditional. There is an electric hot-water heater. The house is connected to mains drainage.
This property is 8 minutes from Maubourguet; 20 minutes from Marciac; 35 minutes from Tarbes; 40 minutes from Pau; 1 hour and 40 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean; 2 hours from ski slopes and Spain.