Property summary
The House
Le Pic Vert is a 4-bedroom house in the centre of a small village in Tarn et Garonne in South West France that has been fully renovated by its English architect owner.
The house, which was built in 1860, is next to the village church and faces at the front on to the main street of the village and at the rear onto a garden and a small wooded area (that also belongs to the house) beyond. The house is constructed of fired and un-fired bricks with 40/50 centimetre thick rendered external walls. The roof construction is of Roman tiles supported on massive timber trusses.
The house originally had an ‘épicerie’ (a grocer’s shop) on the ground floor (in what is now the kitchen/dining room) and barns for drying garlic and storing other agricultural produce at the rear and side of the house.
Renovations
The house has been completely renovated with a new insulated and tiled, concrete ground floor, new electrical and plumbing installations and a new gas central heating system with underfloor heating on the ground floor and radiators on the first and second floors.
The external walls of the house have been re-rendered externally and insulated internally on the ground floor (and in the first floor sitting room) and lined with plaster-board. All of the windows have been replaced with new, double-glazed hardwood windows and the external doors are also new. The original internal doors and door linings have been retained.
The existing timber roof structure of trusses, purlins and rafters has been retained and cleaned (and is exposed over the first floor sitting room and the second floor bedroom) but the roof boarding has been replaced, multi-leaf insulation installed and the roofing tiles re-laid.
The barns at the rear of the house has been turned into a large covered terrace on the ground floor with a store at one end which contains the central heating boiler and storage space and into a sitting room on the first floor. The barn at the side of the house has been removed and the space is now a small garden.
Services
The house is connected to the main drainage system in the village and there is no need therefore for a septic tank. All of the soil and waste pipes within the house were newly installed when the house was renovated.
The house is connected to the village main water supply (which is metered) and has new hot and cold water supply pipes internally.
The house is also connected to the village main electricity supply with new electrical wiring (all in conduits) internally.
The house has a telephone connection and a fast internet connection via the telephone line to the post office which now has a fibre-optic cable connection.
Propane gas for the new central heating installation and for cooking is supplied from a 1,400 kg underground gas tank in the rear garden.
Terrace and Gardens
The covered terrace (27 m²) at the rear of the house faces on to the rear garden (62 m²) which is partly paved and planted with shrubs and a nectarine tree. There is also a very old palm tree in the garden and privacy is afforded by a thick hedge of flowering shrubs along the road that runs behind the house. The terrace and garden get the sun in the early morning and in the summer the garden has the sun until the early afternoon.
There is also a small garden (25 m²) at the side of the house which again is partly paved and has a covered space for wood storage, some shrubs and a fig tree. This garden is accessed from the ground floor living room and there is also a gate at the front from the main village street. The garden gets the sun in the late afternoon.
Ground Floor Accommodation
Entrance: The original front door on the main street has been retained but is no longer in use. The main entrance is now from the rear through the covered terrace which is entered from a door from the road running between the house and the church.
The main entrance door leads from the terrace to a small entrance hall with doors to the dining room/kitchen on the left and to a sitting room straight ahead. On the right hand side of the hallway is a staircase that leads up to the first floor and beyond the staircase is a utility room.
Dining room/kitchen (30 m²): the kitchen faces on to the main street and is separated from the dining area by cupboards and a shelf. The kitchen has a double-sink, low-level cupboards, a large fridge and a range cooker with an extract hood over. The dining room has a large table that will seat at least eight people and has cupboards to the side walls and double doors at the rear opening on to the covered terrace and the rear garden.
Sitting room (27 m²): The sitting room has a window facing the main street and double doors opening onto the small garden at the side of the house. The room has space for two sofas and a large coffee table and also has a wood-burning stove and bookshelves to two walls.
Utility room: the utility room has storage cupboards, a washing machine and a freezer. It also has a shower, Wc and a wash-basin.
First Floor Accommodation
Corridor: A central corridor leads from the stairs to the three bedrooms and the new sitting room. The corridor has book-shelves and new radiators.
Bedrooms: the three original double bedrooms have been retained; bedroom 1 (19 m²) and bedroom 2 (20 m²) at the front of the house face onto the main street and bedroom 3 (15 m²) has a window on to the small road at the side of the house. The two front bedrooms have double beds, wardrobes and shelf units and bedroom 1 has direct access into the renovated bathroom. The bathroom has a bath with a shower over, Wc, bidet and wash-basin and a large linen cupboard. The third bedroom has two single beds and is at present used as an office with two large desks. There are new radiators in all of the bedrooms and the bathroom.
Sitting Room: The barn at the rear of the house has been converted into a large, double-height sitting room (32 m² and approximately 7 metres high) with new radiators and three, new, door-height windows that overlook the rear garden and the countryside beyond. There is a small kitchenette, with a worktop, shelf, sink and space for a small fridge, under the new staircase that leads to the second floor.
Second Floor Accommodation
Mezzanine (8 m²): The staircase from the first floor leads up to a gallery which in turn leads to a mezzanine over one end of the first floor sitting room. The gallery and the mezzanine overlook the first floor sitting room and the mezzanine has space for a sofa or single bed. There are book-cases dividing the mezzanine from the gallery and a new radiator in the latter. The mezzanine has two small windows and a Velux window in the roof; there is also a Velux window over the gallery/staircase.
Bedroom 4 (30 m²): A new bedroom has been constructed in what was the attic space in the roof and the roof timbers are exposed. The bedroom is lit by three new Velux windows and has a walk-in wardrobe and its own bathroom with a shower, Wc and wash-basin. Both the bedroom and the bathroom have new radiators. On three sides of the bedroom is a large attic space that is used for storage.
Note: all floor and other areas given above are approximate
The Village
The house is situated in Sérignac, a small, once fortified village on top of a hill overlooking the valley of the Gimone river, a tributary of the Garonne. The village, which is about seven kilometres from the market town of Beaumont de Lomagne, is set in pretty rolling countryside that is extensively farmed and that also has large areas of woodland. Sérignac is about an hour by road north-west of Toulouse and about half an hour west of Montauban, the administrative centre of the Tarn et Garonne Département.
The village has a community-run café/bar which is open 7 days a week in the summer and at weekends in spring and autumn but which is closed in winter. There is also a salle de fête and the committees that run the café and the salle de fête are both very active and numerous community activities take place during the year. From January 1st 2021, the cafe will also be open 5 mornings a week all year to sell bread and pastries together with basic groceries and local produce.
There is a horse-riding centre in the village and a very active walking group. There is also a post office and a primary school.
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Price 249,500 €
Not including notarial fees, registration and land registration fees.
Price / sq metre: €/m² 1,134.09
other currency
Reference:
87962
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