Normandy, Manche, Brécey, France

This is a lovely spacious and light 5 bedroom property with a basement and sits on 8.5 acres of land, there are beautiful gardens, a vegetable patch, above ground swimming pool, a stream, many outbuildings and land and stables for your horses with beautiful country views.

The house consists of

Entrance hall with stairs up to bedrooms and down to the basement

The lounge is double aspect with a wood burning stove

The kitchen/dining room is to the other side of the hallway and is a beautiful size with great workspace with an island and plenty of storage cupboards with room for a large American style fridge freezer, there is an inbuilt dishwasher, oven and microwave oven and an induction hob.  

To the rear of both the kitchen and lounge is the conservatory overlooking the courtyard and gardens with access to the large boot and coat room.

On the first floor we have 3 bedrooms, 1 with an ensuite shower room and a large walk in wardrobe, there is also a separate shower room.

On the 2nd floor we have a further 2 large bedrooms and a shower room.

The basement is accessed either from the stairs in the entrance hall or from outside, it is a large space and one half is used as a utility area with room and fixings for a washing machine and tumble dryer, the hot water tank is here and the geothermal boiler.

There is aerothermie under floor heating in the conservatory with a reversible airsource exchange unit on the ground floor and groundsource heating to radiators on the first floor.

There is a 4000l all water septic tank which was installed in 2017.

The roof had new slates to the front of the house in 2017.

Exterior

A gated entrance with a gravelled driveway takes you to a further 5 bar gate into the courtyard and gardens.

A vegetable garden is to the left with a greenhouse and in front a covered seating area, the wood store, tool shed and potting shed. Behind this is the old bakery ready for renovation and would make a lovely gite, there is a separate road access available.

To the centre is the garage with electric doors and large workshop and to the right of this the old cider press room with the chicken house and run attached.

Over to the right is the above ground salt water swimming pool and from here leading down to another secluded seating area next to the stream

To the rear are the paddocks and hay fields with the stables and wooden chalet, used as a tack room, along with the hay barn.  

To the front of the house is a gravelled pathway to walk around the pretty front garden.

The nearest village with amenities is St Pois just a 6 minute drive away which has a selection of shops including a baker, butchers, bar/restaurant, doctors and a bank, with the larger town of Brecey just a 9 minute drive with a supermarket and many other shops. The larger towns of Vire 24 minutes and Avranches 28 minutes are not too far away for everything else that you need. The sandy beaches are 35 minutes from the house. The ports of Ouistreham and St Malo are 80 minutes away