- Manor House – 6 bedrooms + 4 bathrooms
- Owner’s residence + B&B
- 2 independent gîtes
- Gym/games room – wedding receptions
- Mill-house
- Pool, pond, mill-pond and lake
- 5 hectares of gardens, meadow and woodland
- Price: €1.4m (includes agency fees) – ref n° 299
This is an upmarket gite and B&B business just south of the Dordogne in the Lot et Garonne département. Set in nearly 6 hectares of grounds the estate includes a watermill, a mill-pond and a lake as well as over 800m² of buildings: the manor house, the two gites and the owner’s house with its B&B rooms. The property has been totally renovated and refurbished with a lot of taste. It lends itself to a multitude of uses … depending on the buyers’ projects and desires.
The current owners have fitted out the manor house as a luxury gite: self-catering rental accommodation. With its six bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, countless small lounges, dining room, high ceilings and practical spacious farm kitchen, it has no problem findding weekly tenants throughout the season. It is centrally-heated and has its own private 11×5 metre pool.
Like all the buildings on the estate, the manor house and the two independent gites are made of the local honey-coloured stone. The bigger gite is deep in the grounds with uninterrupted views of the lake and the forests beyond. It boasts two big bedrooms, bathroom, open-plan lounge and dining area and fully equipped kitchen. A wrap-around deck/patio on two sides of the cottage gives on to a superb heated pool.
The owners have opted to live across the elegant courtyard from the manor house in the east wing. This superb building has been transformed into a sleek and modern living space – incorporating beautiful old features (the monumental stone fireplace for example) into a polished interior. Two bedrooms, study, lounge, state-of-the-art kitchen, underfloor heating … there’s nothing missing. There are a couple of guest rooms in this section for passing B&B guests.
The other side of the courtyard is taken up by a vast events venue/games room which is used for wine-tasting, art classes and weddings. The rest of the ground floor is occupied by a spacious garage/workshop. The upper floor houses the second gite with its kitchen/living space, two double/triple bedrooms and bathroom.
Outdoors we find a number of stone-built buildings used for storage or awaiting development: the pigeon house is used a a barbecue centre, the old mill has been re-roofed and is ready for the next stage, another building next to the mill has gite potential. But the real charm of the estate lies in the numerous water features: the freshwater lake with its carp and wild-swimming, the mill-pond and the two rivers bordering the southern and eastern boundaries. The gardens are dotted with fruit trees: cherry, apple, quince, as well as gracious and colourful maple and oak.
Our opinion
This is a superb property – renovated and refurbished – that offers buyers a number of choices. One could continue to run the business as it is today: three rental units plus a couple of guest rooms while the owners live in the east wing. Or one could opt to live in the 6-bed manor house and let out the other units for a lesser income. We would probably go for a third option: owners live in the gite by the lake (with its own heated pool) leaving the whole courtyard (manor house, owner’s house, events venue and first-floor gite) to rent out as a unit or separately. Wedding receptions could be made a speciality: an estate of this quality with plenty of accommodation, pool, grounds and events space would be in continual demand. Whatever your project, this property is a must-see when you visit the Dordogne/Lot & Garonne region.
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- Ref n°: 299
- Summary: Manor House with two gites and independent owner's accommodation set in a 6 hectare estate complete with lake, river, mill and mill-pond. Established luxury gite rental business with wedding, art and wine-tasting activities. No further work needed. Ready to operate on Day 1. Dordogne/Lot & Garonne border in SW France.
- Address: Lot-et-Garonne, France
- Price: €1,400,000
- Commission: 3% (included in asking price)
- Surface Area: 6
- Phone Number: +33 675 665 518
- Bedrooms: 15
- Bathrooms: 9
- Pools: 2