Demeure to Convert or Renovate D544
Tower to left
Details:
  • Ref: 544
  • Type: House
  • Price: €785,000
  • City: Pezenas
  • Bedrooms:
  • Bathrooms:
  • Surface ms: 600sqm

Condition: Parts Habitable Parts to do
Full Description: An extremely rare find indeed. This building, with its architectural origins in the 12th and 13th centuries, was enlarged and ameliorated in around 1650. It was used as the 'Metterie' for the nearby Couvent de Cordeliers (the Cordeliers Convent). A metterie is where they made the bread, prepared the meals and kept the animals, etc.

The property needs extensive renovations, however all of the large works are complete, and the second floor is finished bar decorating and internal walls if required.

The structure of the building is solid and the main roof has been completely replaced, with the addition of 19cm of cork insulation between the roof tiles and the wooden planks that sit on the crossbeams. All wood has been treated. New windows have also been added to a large part of the main body of the building.

As mentioned above, the second floor has been completed and is livable - in fact the owner currently lives there. See more details below.

Essentially the building comprises a main body, with two wings and a tower housing the original stone staircase up to the first and second floors.

There is a large courtyard in front of the property, with a huge stone arched access.

In front of this lies the land of approximately 1 hectares (10,000m² or 2.4 acres), plus the property is completely detached and has land around each side ensuring complete privacy and security.

There are three wells in the grounds, one of which has a pump to provide the property with water which has been tested and certificated. The house has its own new septic tank.

A Virtual Tour

As you enter the courtyard, you see on your left a ruined part of the building. This appears on the plans for the building so has permissions to be habitable (it measures about 40sqm). It will need a new roof and even a second floor may be possible.

Next to this left wing in the courtyard is an original bread oven.

Right wing - entered through a large stone arch into a room of approx 50sqm, with a 20sqm mezzanine level to your right and a higher 25sqm mezzanine level to your left. Through from this second mezzanine floor there lies a room of about 55sqm which has had a re-inforced concrete floor run in. This is all ready to add floor tiles and decorate.

Underneath this area lies stone vaulted-ceilinged rooms and what the owner suspects was once the chapel of the building.

From the courtyard once more, and entering the building by the tower, you see a winding set of original stone stairs. These are slightly worn, but perfectly usable - imagine their age! NB There are products that you can buy to repair stone (ie stairs, window or door surrounds, arches, etc) which look just like the original stone.

First floor - comprised of two rooms. The first is about 60sqm and has a traditional 'Plafond a la Francaise' (French ceiling) - see the photo. This is a ceiling with lots of smaller beams between the larger beams. It has been renovated and looks fantastic.

This room leads through to a second room of about 30sqm. The rear windows have been replaced in these two rooms, the front ones are to do.

Back to the tower and up the stone stairs to the second floor. Good quality pine wood floorboards throughout in this one 'loft style' room of about 90sqm. Running water (the owner has a WC, shower cubicle and basin in one corner) and new windows throughout. Ideal for living in whilst renovating the rest of the building.

The ceiling has a central feature of wonderful large cross beams that have been recuperated from elsewhere and added in here - they work so well with this room. See photo.

Back down to the courtyard again and into the rooms on the ground floor (which is in fact slightly raised above the real ground level as there are two sets of stone stairs up to here from the courtyard).

There are two entrances here - one to a double-vaulted ceilinged room to renovate of about 60sqm. The right-hand entrance takes you into a renovated vaulted-ceilinged room of about 30sqm, with old-style (but new) terracotta floor tiles.

Looking to the right from the front of the property, there is another vaulted-ceilinged room (about 20sqm) which leads through to the suspected chapel room of about 12sqm. Both to renovate.

Please email me for more photos.

Short Description: A once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase something really special and renovate to your style and standards. Ancient working building dating from 12th/13th Century. Lovely stone, features such as arches, beams, stone staircase, courtyard, plus 1.5 hectares (3.75 acres) of (poolable) land.

Listed by Jane Hughes


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