Property Description:
Situated 20 minutes North of the large market town of Tarbes, convenient for all amenities, this 18th Century Château (340m2, 6 bedrooms) with outbuildings totalling 500m2 sits in grounds totalling 2,5 hectares, surrounded by a beautiful garden planted with mature shrubs and trees.
The buildings are set in a 'U' shape around a courtyard. The house is completely renovated, and the outhouses form the legs of the 'U'.
Facing East, the entrance of the house leads into a hallway with an open fireplace. The total area of the ground floor is 235m2, and consists of 10 rooms, with 6 fireplaces, which ooze charm and style from the many retained original features.
There is a lovely dining room to the South (7.2 X 5.4 = 40 m2), a second to the West (32 m2) and a drawing room in the same style (16 m2), two bedroom, two kitchens, two bathrooms and a wc.
Two stylish spiral staircases lead to the first floor, and four lovely bedrooms, and then to an independant apartment on the second floor.
This floor offers lovely views of the wooded grounds to the East and the valley below to the South.
The outbuildings form a 'U' around a second courtyard, and comprise a stable block (18.3 X 3.5 = 65 m2), a garage (5.7 X 10.5 = 61 m2), a wood store (12.7 X 8.3 = 106 m2), a work room (8.2 X 6 = 50 m2) with an old forge, and a wine store (18.7 X 4.6 = 87 m2); behind these buildings there is a lean-to (30m2) and a barn/hangar (12.3 X 16.1 = 198 m2).
The property sits in lovely enclosed grounds totalling 2,5 hectares which would lend themselves ideally to equestrian activities.
Without close neighbours or being overlooked, you cannot help but enjoy the calm of the gardens, which are planted with various trees and shrubs (lime, eucalyptus, cypress, pines, magnolia, medlar....)
Very well maintained over the years, there are no great works forseeable. The walls are local stone, the roof is slate (replaced in 1999) for the house, and the outhouses tiled, and joinery is wood. There is oil fired central heating and a septic tank.
This splendid property is situated 20 minutes from Tarbes (TGV) on the edge of the Gers region, 30 minutes from the motorway at Tournay, 15 minutes from Miélan, 1hr 15mins from Pau (Ryanair), and from Spain, and from the lower ski slopes, 1hr 30mins from Toulouse (TGV, motorail, International Airport - Easyjet, Flybe, BMIBaby), 2 hours from Biarritz and the Atlantic beach resorts, 2hrs 30mins from Carcassonne, and 3 hours from the Mediterranean.
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