No need for tons of vision and vigour – although don’t get me wrong, it will take hard work – to make this a habitable house. After all, it has been lived in, as is, until quite recently. One huge advantage to any future plans is the fact that the village has mains drainage, and although not currently attached, it would be simple to arrange for the house to be connected.
The front door opens into the kitchen, with its central heating boiler (an old wood-burning range, with back boiler), stone fireplace and oak beams. To the rear is the existing bedroom, with a good wood floor and again, oak beams (although these have been clad at some stage to “modernise” the house). The living room is off the kitchen to the left. There is an existing shower-room and toilet in an extension built into the attached barn. Stairs take you to the double attic with plenty of height beneath the beams and good sized windows. This is very convertible.
The barn is L shaped to the house, and offers the prospect of a useful garage/workshop and further house extension if wanted. To the rear of the house is an open barn and stables which end at the corner of the road behind the house. My immediate reaction was that I would demolish this to give myself a garden and the possibility of opening windows to the rear of the house – maybe even French Doors opening onto the garden. There is a courtyard to the front of the house and the main acre + of land is immediately across the lane from the house.
Set in a small hamlet it is a 10 minute drive to the pretty market town of Civray with its range of facilities – including builders’ merchants.
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