Languedoc-Roussillon, Aude, La Redorte, France

The house is situated on a quiet street, though very close to shops, supermarket, service station, post office, café, bakery, restaurants, pharmacy and medical centre. Parking is easy to find in the adjacent roads, and buses are available to Carcassonne regularly.

The front door leads into a light lobby area with a pretty internal glazed door, and then into the living/dining area of 26.6m² with a smart Franco-Belgian, woodburning stove, which heats the whole house. The living room and kitchen (12m²) face south-east and have nice big windows. There are natural timber panelled doors. On this floor there is also a shower room with WC. (2.85m²).

A timber staircase leads to the first floor, where there are three lovely bedrooms of 13.6m², 12.7m² and 10.9m², and shower room of 1.5m² and a separate WC of 1.24m². The main bedroom and the smaller bedroom each have exposed timber beams and a natural stone wall, and the main bedroom has a pretty corner wardrobe.

On the top floor is the second kitchen plus dining area of 12m², with large sliding double-glazed timber doors leading out to the 32m² terrace, with its lovely views, mostly south but also east and north. There are a sink and a barbecue here, and one looks over the clay-tiled roofs to the lines of trees by the Canal du Midi, which is 50m away, or to the vineyards on the edge of the village. It is private and quiet with lots of birdsong, and swallows flying over in summer.

La Redorte is 28 km from Carcassonne, 32 km from Narbonne, 50 km from Béziers and the same distance from the sea at Narbonne Plage, 123 km from Spain (an hour and 20 minutes), 123 km from Toulouse and 128 km from Montpellier (an hour and a half).