Villa in Saint-Christophe, Charente

5 Bed House with Houses to Renovate - St Christophe - 16

Offered for sale is a 5-bed house with houses and barns to renovate and gardens in a small hamlet near St Christophe in the Charente, Department 16.

This deceptively spacious hamlet house (it was 2 houses, and it would easily separate again) has some lovely original features, together with a barn, a cottage and another smaller building which would easily make two nice gites. The main house has 2 living room, a kitchen, 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

Set in a very quiet hamlet but only a short walk from the village of St. Christophe, and just 8 minutes’ drive from Brigueuil (which has a baker, butcher, post office, pharmacy and bar. The house would make a perfect holiday or full-time home and be ideal for someone wanting to renovate the other buildings for accommodation.

Only 19 minutes away you have the towns of Confolens and Saint Junien both set on the Vienne River and having all the amenities needed for everyday life including a market, brocante shops and parks with sports facilities. A great base for getting around the Vienne, Charente and Charente Maritime, with many visitor attractions only a short drive away.

Limoges airport and train station are a 32-minute drive from St Christophe, or you could go into Saint Junien to catch the train into Limoges. There you can connect with trains to Poitiers where you have cross platform TGV connections to Paris, Bordeaux and other French cities plus Brussels and London (via Lille).

The house was extended in the 1990’s to add a kitchen, second entrance and WC to the ground floor and a bedroom and bathroom with WC to the 1st floor, the rest of the house is original and does need some updating; meaning there are still plenty of opportunities for you to put your own personality into its delightful rooms. The outbuildings would make quaint gîtes and the barn is an ideal storage and parking facility.

The hamlet has internet, and the main house has mains water and electricity, drainage is to a septic tank which conformed in 2021 at its last inspection. Gas is bottled and it has wood fired heating.