Property Description: This is a beautiful traditional Longere style former farmhouse built around 1900, fully restored and ready to live in. The property comprises of electric gates opening onto a fully contained, privately hedged and mature garden of some 3500˛ms. The house has mains power, water and oil fired central heating, all in full working order.
The front door opens into the Dining Room 3.9m x 4.9m with original working bread oven and chimney. Power points and 2 radiators. Telephone point.
Door to the lovely fully fitted kitchen measuring 3.4m x 5m and with all appliances to remain, washing machine, dishwasher, fitted oven, ceramic hob, integral refrigerator and second drinks cooler refrigerator. Plenty of power points and work surfaces all laid to traditional tiling. Radiator. Double doors to garden.
Further door from dining room to a downstairs toilet cloakroom with toilet and washbasin, power point and radiator.
The dining room has a stone archway leading to the large Lounge 4.25m x 6.98m. TV Satellite point, telephone point, 2 radiators. French doors to garden.
All downstairs rooms have original beams.
The wooden staircase rises upstairs from the rear of the lounge to a large mezzanine landing, currently used as a library, giving access to the 5 double bedrooms. Radiator, power points and telephone point.
The Master bedroom = 4.9m x 3.5m with TV Satellite point, telephone point and radiator. En suite Shower Room with white suite, toilet, wash basin and shower cubicle, towel ladder radiator and 2nd radiator. Bedroom 2 = 4.2m x 3.5m; TV Satellite point and radiator.
Bedroom 3 = 3.37m x 3.6m; TV Satellite point, radiator.
Bedroom 4 = 3.34m x 3.6m; radiator.
Bedroom 5 = 2.14m x 6.07m and which is currently used as an office/study. Telephone point, radiator.
There is a large family bathroom with a white suite, bath, wash basin, toilet and separate shower cubicle. Large towel ladder radiator.
There is a large loft space running the length of the house and which is fully insulated.
The house is stone built and finished with traditional Crepi on external walls. All doors and windows are fully double glazed and fitted with security shutters.
Outside there is a vaulted wine cave under the house. There is a large garage/workshop, some 7.4M x 7M in size,with Boiler Room housing the central heating boiler and 1200 litres hot water tank and a further storage room off. There are 2 further externally accessible lofts all forming part of the main house. Finally, there is a further storage room presently used a 'potting shed'.
The garden laid mainly to lawns has mature fruit trees (apples, pears, cherries, plums), soft fruit bushes and greenhouse. There is a built in barbeque alongside the entrance steps to the wine cellar. External power supplies to the garden.
There is a lawnmower tractor included in the sale and an above ground 18 foot diameter swimming pool. It is also possible to negotiate with the present British owners with regard to leaving the property partly furnished.
There is a small further piece of land outside the northern boundary of the garden which has shared ownership with neighbours and provides additional potential access to the property and also access rights to a well.
The property is in the heart of the Cher department, only 2.5 hours drive south of Paris and half an hour equidistant from the famous wine growing town of Sancerre and the famous medieval musical town of Bourges. All the chateaux of the Loire lie within a 2 to three hours drive radius. The house is situated in a quiet rural Hamlet only 5 minutes from the small but pretty village of Baugy and which has all amenities, Supermarket, Bakers, Banks, Hairdressers, Schools, Post Office, Doctor, Dentist, Pharmacy, Restaurants and a range of other shops. A weekly market is also held every Friday morning.
Motorway access to Paris and other routes as well as the railway station in Bourges lie within a 30 minutes drive of the Hamlet. The nearest airport providing regular flights from London Stansted is at Tours,a 2.5 hour drive from the house but is easily accessible via the A71/A85 autoroutes and pleasant country roads.
For further details and viewing, please contact the Owners.
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