Description

Located 10 mins south of Tarbes is this farmhouse for sale, typical in style of the Bigorre region in an L-shape, offering 450m2 full of authentic charm. There is a main house with visible stone walls and an old chambre d’hotes with restaurant, all on 4000m2 of land, which may be divided for various projects, with an outbuilding. Perfect for a large family or tourist activity.

The chambre d’hotes/restaurant section consists of a spacious, 50m2 dining room which enjoys lots of natural light and an open fireplace. To the right a corridor serves a generous, 31m2 kitchen with 26m2 larder and a 12m2 office. There is also a private toilet, storage room, another storage area and three toilets totalling 14m2 including a disabled toilet.

Back to the dining room and to the left is a 26m2 breakfast room where a staircase leads to five bedrooms each with bathroom and toilet: there are three double bedrooms of 18m2, a 36m2 family room with balcony and a 32m2 family room which has two rooms. Certain rooms have superb view of the Montaigu and Pic du Midi peaks.

The main house has a solid wood door opening to a 12m2 hallway which serves:

– to the left the 24m2 living room with kitchen and open fireplace

– Opposite is a 5.5m2 washroom with toilet

– To the right is the 30m2 sitting room with wood burner and where there is access to the 23m2 storage and boiler room and a guest bedroom with washroom.

Back to the hallway and a wooden staircase leads up to a landing serving a walk-in wardrobe and four bedrooms (10.5m2, 11m2 and two of 13m2, one of which with plentiful storage space), a 7m2 bathroom and separate toilet. Windows are double glazed with aluminium folding shutters in the chambre d’hotes and wooden shutters in the main house. The bedrooms have wooden flooring. The doors in the chambre d’hotes are fire doors. The chambre d’hotes have electric heating.

The restaurant and main house have gas central heating completed by the fireplaces. The slate roof of the chambre d’hotes was relaid in 1999. The south facing slate roof of the main house is in good condition, the north facing side requires work. Hot water is provided by a gas-powered Styx boiler from 2019.

Outside, the pebble courtyard has a poultry shed.

To the rear of the house a substantial courtyard has an open vehicle shelter, a covered terrace and a big outbuilding with 120m2 of space connected to water and electricity.

The splendid garden has trees and flowers, a lovely vegetable patch and numerous fruit trees including fig, cherry, pear, apple, chestnuts and quince. You could install a swimming pool.

Should you desire, it is possible to divide the land up.

This property has excellent potential for a family or professional project.

You will be 10 mins from Tarbes, 15 mins from Bagneres-de-Bigorre, 25 mins from Lourdes, 50 mins from La Mongie for skiing, 1h40 from the Atlantic coast and 3h from the Mediterranean coast.