Renovated 3 bedroom Grand Farmhouse for sale with countryside view in La Chartre sur le Loir, Pays de la Loire
This charming property in the Sarthe region is an ideal family residence or holiday home, located in a quiet area just a small distance from the village with basic amenities and a popular leisure lake, only a short drive from a choice of buoyant market towns this home.
Benefitting from all the advantages this popular area has to offer: schools, restaurants, markets, activitiesetc. whilst retaining a quiet private setting.
Roughly halfway between Tours and Le Mans and an easy drive via nearby Autoroute access (or direct TGV link) to...
This charming property in the Sarthe region is an ideal family residence or holiday home, located in a quiet area just a small distance from the village with basic amenities and a popular leisure lake, only a short drive from a choice of buoyant market towns this home.
Benefitting from all the advantages this popular area has to offer: schools, restaurants, markets, activitiesetc. whilst retaining a quiet private setting.
Roughly halfway between Tours and Le Mans and an easy drive via nearby Autoroute access (or direct TGV link) to Paris and beyond.
The main entrance hall of 10m2 comes with quarry tiled floor and exposed beams and original stairs and wc. Centrally positioned this area provides a natural division between the night part of the property to the left and above, and the day part to the right.
The open aspect living room/diner incorporates a veranda style glazed extension to the rear overlooking the garden and paddocks beyond with direct access to the rear terrace, alfresco dining and Jacuzzi area.
A 66m2 double aspect room with solid oak parquet flooring for the dining hall and quarry tiled in the living room with feature hand carved tuffeau fireplace.
The kitchen, a real heart to this home is situated in a modern extension, covering 33m2 and double aspect, hand built with custom made conservatory style double-glazing and 7m high "lamp tower" above.
The kitchen will remain fitted including the Lacornue stove and Sergio Leoni wood burner.
The other side of the entrance hall leads us to a "home office" space of 10m2 with access to the main bedroom and large bathroom with bath, shower and steam room and a door leading directly to the spa terrace. A spacious dressing room acts as a corridor to the basement stairs.
Below is the former gym (possible cinema room if desired) of 19m2 with ceiling height of 2.2m and a separate technical room housing the gas boiler, steam room pump/heater, water heater and controls for the outside water distribution.
The first floor has a landing area offering access to the storage room, wc and second double bedroom, double aspect of 25m2 with large walk-in shower room.
A third double bedroom of 18m2 with private shower room and mezzanine area completes this floor.
Within the central courtyard facing inwards are the former farm outbuildings, all which have been renovated. The barn, opposite the main house provides a workshop/storage in the former stables, next to the vaulted barn 68m2 with a pitch height of 7.2M and mezzanine areas over the workshop and the rest of the building. Interconnecting internally from the barn and with separate external access is a heated room, used today for garaging for a motorcycle and sports equipment and finally at the end of this building is a heated gym with panoramic window with views over the paddocks.
Behind this building and at right angles connected via a covered passage is the stable block offering an open shelter on one side and two enclosed stables on the other.
The former "goat shed" has been made into two storage rooms and the garage wooden clad 3 car garage block discretely hides the 3 electric doors and modern interior within.
On the higher ground above the woodland is the former "plane hangar", today used for machinery garaging and there are several field shelters for the animals in the paddocks.
There is even the original wine cave cut into the hillside.
6.8 hectares (nearly 17 acres) of private land including gated gravelled entrance drive leading to central courtyard, 4 separate paddocks with field shelters (currently homes to a horse and two donkeys), a 40m x 20m sand school, formal gardens with established trees and plants, a strip once used as a runway for the owner's microlight aircraft and roughly 2 hectares (nearly 5 acres) of woodland.
The property also benefits from a 12m x 4m outdoor pool along with a 6 person Jacuzzi on the rear terrace.
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