luxury houses with pool for sale Parthenay, France

A large, elegant and comfortable house and its neighbouring building in need of restoration, in a beautiful dry-stone village in the upper Sèvre valley. The main house, built out of rubble limestone, overlooks, on its garden side, the Sèvre River from all four of its storeys, while its other façades look out on one of the most beautiful villages in the department with its medieval chateau. All the living spaces are located on the ground floor, which includes: a large living room, a small sitting room, a library or office and dining room, all decorated with nailed wide-plank hardwood floors, a variety of different fireplaces and ceilings with exposed beams or delicate stucco patterns, while the kitchen, left in its original state, has an antique square terracotta-tile floor. In the other building, a vast room, called “the chapel”, accessible via the small sitting room, could be used for galas, concerts or theatre performances. The first floor contains four bedrooms, each in a unique style – one of which has a powder room with lavatory – as well as a vast separate shower room with lavatory. On the second floor, under the insulated roof, a lounge space opens onto the staircase, while a last bedroom, bathed in sunlight, is located near the bathroom with lavatory. The rest of the floor is reserved for the attic space. As for the garden level, it includes a summer kitchen and furnace room (wood-pellet central heating), a workshop, a summer shower room with lavatory and a cellar. The house’s tile roof is in great condition as is the roofing for the outbuildings, while most of the windows are double-glazed. The garden is organised into six spaces, including the courtyard enclosed on three of its four sides by two barns and the deep, asymmetrical quadrilateral swimming pool. The four storeys of the house in need of restoration – which a small courtyard separates from the first – are accessed by a spiral staircase, which is undoubtedly older than the date displayed above the building’s arched front door: 1724. Although some of its window frames have been changed recently and the shutters are new, there are eight rooms in total that need to be refurbished, in addition to three cellars and two attic spaces. An interior garden, in which a palm tree provides a Mediterranean touch, opens onto a patio under which, thanks to the slope of the street that descends towards the bridge over the river, a garage was created.

All that remains of the fortified castle today is the Orangery, listed as a Historic Monument, and its defences dating from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Converted into a farmhouse in the 17th century whilst retaining their defensive features, they constitute, with their high walls and two medieval towers, the oldest and most imposing buildings in the village. Arranged in a right-angled layout, the Château’s defences combine charm, rich heritage and practicality. Each building is extended by an adjoining plot. The house offers 390 m² of living space across two floors. It comprises eight bedrooms (two on the ground floor with access to the garden, six upstairs), two shower rooms, three toilets (two of which are separate), two medieval towers (one square, restored with the help of the Fondation du Patrimoine, and one round, each containing a bedroom), a 37 m² fitted kitchen with a Godin stove on original flagstone flooring and an adjoining 20 m² entrance hall, a large 42 m² living room with a grand fireplace and underfloor heating, featuring 4.80 m high ceilings, a small sitting room, a 28 m² library with 3.50 m high ceilings, and a total of five large fireplaces. A property in excellent condition The renovation took place between 2010 and 2015. In addition to the south-west facing living area of the main house, there is: - A 130 m² loft with potential for conversion - A 15 m² vaulted cellar - Outbuildings totalling over 700 m² These outbuildings comprise: - Six barns and adjoining utility rooms (including a boiler room, pool room, woodshed, etc.) totalling over 290 m² at garden level; upstairs, two barns with beautiful high-ceilinged timber frames, one measuring 220 m² and the other 140 m². - A 23 m² garage and adjoining 22 m² workshop - A 4x8 m in-ground swimming pool with Roman steps, enclosed by fencing, salt electrolysis and bag filtration. New robot, pump and liner. Covering an area of 4,300 m², the property is divided into two fully walled sections: at the front, a 2,200 m² garden with trees, including a garage and swimming pool; at the rear, the former moat converted into gardens and an orchard (cherry, pear, apple, hazelnut, fig and raspberry trees, etc.). A gate on the moat side opens onto a narrow lane, putting the village centre just a 2-minute walk away. Potential for all your projects - The attic above the guard room in the square tower is, like the tower itself, 15 m² in size. Formerly occupied (two windows available, a third bricked up), their proximity to the mains drainage system makes it possible to plan an additional bathroom. - The 130 m² of the adjoining attic, in one continuous space, is suitable for conversion. The height is 1.85 m under each of the four tie beams and 4.75 m under the ridge beam. It is accessed via the beautiful staircase in the square tower, which opens onto the first-floor corridor and the garden, making the square tower and attic independent. - Barns with potential access to the house via a corridor. Features: - Oil-fired heating - Domestic hot water: 2 electric water heaters - Kitchen: outdoor gas cylinder - Wastewater: mains drainage - Internet: fibre broadband available from all providers This property is a 2-minute walk from a lively town centre (festivals, markets, exhibitions, etc.) offering all amenities (primary school, secondary school, banks, pharmacies, medical centre, various shops, supermarket, France Services centre, post office, etc.). The property is a 30-minute drive from Niort and 15 minutes from a TGV station, and the town has a TER station with services to Paris Montparnasse and Bordeaux Saint-Jean, both 2 and a half hours away. Sale price including agency fees: €519,750. Agency fees payable by the buyer. Agency fees: 5% (including VAT) of the price excluding agency fees. Sale price excluding agency fees: €495,000. Energy rating: D. Climate rating: D. Estimated annual energy costs for standard use: between €7,670 and €10,430 per year. Prices indexed to 1st of January 2021. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

A refined residence and its park above Saint-Maixent-l'École. The manor resembles a small castle with its modest and neat architecture. Two pyramid roofs pierced by a dormer crown the façade with three bays. On either side, two short wings, the same height as the central body, are set back. On the park side, the residence presents a simple façade with five bays. The rooms are distributed over three levels. The reception and service rooms are on the garden level, on either side of a wide, very bright, through vestibule: living room, office, dining room flanked by a space for intimate breakfasts, contemporary kitchen. In a small adjoining extension: old kitchen, workshop, boiler room (oil), toilets. On the first floor, five bedrooms all have different exposures, sizes, and comforts: a bathtub in one room and a large shower room for another, a bathroom for a third, not counting independent toilets with a washbasin. The second floor hosts four more bedrooms (including one with a shower room and toilet), a bathroom, and toilets. The electricity and plumbing are mostly recent. An oil boiler heats the radiators. Hot water is provided by three water heaters. Fiber optics is installed. A cellar extends under half of the residence. Following the manor, the cottage with exposed stone walls (tenant with a three-year lease) includes a dining room-kitchen, a bedroom with a wardrobe, and a shower room on the garden level, a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom, and toilets on the upper floor. It opens directly onto the pool measuring 10 m x 4 m. On the other side of the courtyard along its length, the outbuildings lend themselves to many current and potential uses across seven bays. The park, over 5 hectares, entirely enclosed by a wall, a fence, and a ditch, multiplies the tree species to be recognized and appreciated for their beauty and shade.This description has been automatically translated from French.