I am sure this cottage started life as a farm-worker's home in this small rural village/hamlet. It still has a welcoming warmth and although, today, the kitchen/living room has the benefit of modern fitments and appliances, it is still the centre and focal point of the house.
Step off the lane (hardly a street) into an entrance lobby with traditional flagstone floor and then into the kitchen. Until the conversion of the barn is complete this is the main room of the house, kitchen, dining and living. A corridor leads to the modern shower-room with the two bedrooms on each side. A door from the kitchen takes you into the walled and sheltered back garden. Attached to the cottage, but currently entered from the lane, is the barn. This has a new roof, water and electricity and has been divided into two rooms on the ground floor with internal stairs to a large attic. Plans have been drawn and approved for a lounge with huge French windows onto the garden, open to the rafters with a mezzanine above the second room (destined to be a bedroom with en-suite shower room)..
The garden is walled and gated, with a terrace, potting/tool shed and a well. A separate vegetable plot is just across the lane. There is an external staircase to the storage area above the kitchen and bedrooms. Enough room for all those items that will be useful one day, but not sufficient height for conversion to living space.
There are no shops in the village today, but it is a short drive to Limalonges with its general store and restaurant and a little bit further to Sauzé Vaussais and a wider range of facilities. Both the RN10 and Saint Saviol railway station are a few minutes away for services to Poitiers or Angouleme and international rail stations and airports. © |
