AHIB-1-MS • St Caradec • Cotes d'Armor • Brittany • 22600 • 2/3 Bedroomed Detached Farmhouse with 2 barns, lean-to, bread oven, a well and 3,000m2 garden. Surrounded by fields • offers in the region of 275,000€  +Notaire's Fees

NOTE: Initial Appointments to view are available with the current owners between April 10th & April 29th... we'll be very happy to show you around... otherwise via agent/notaire

Summary • St Caradec 22600 - Maison de 2/3 chambres, 2 salles de bain/WC, cuisine, buanderie, salle à manger, séjour. • Surface habitable : 172.34 m². • Chauffage : 2 poêles à bois et 1 pompe à chaleur air-eau. • Double vitrage.  • Terrain de 2,870 m². • Dépendances : • grange avec appentis et petite grange avec four à pain.  • Fosse septique… en attente de visite ! • DPE D - 246 et B - 8

A beautiful detached stone farmhouse (one of only two in a rural hamlet) dating from 17th & 18th Century... with outbuildings, a large (15 x 5 metre) barn, baby barn - as smoke-house bread oven and lean-to workshop plus a well and approximately 3/4 acre of established garden ••• To include furniture - and white goods

Close to the wonderful Rigole d'Hilvern and river Oust and midway between two beautiful leisure lakes (Lac du Guerledan and Lac Bosmeliac) this property has been lovingly restored (keeping character, history and integrity) by its current owners over the last 20 + years. Ideal for those who love walking, cycling, fishing, gardening and nature .... easy access to north and south coasts, forests, hills and towns for shopping not too far (Loudeac 10km). Close to the Linen Merchants’ trail. Just about 1.5 hours from St Malo so within easy reach of ferry port etc.

The house (172,34m2 of living space) faces south onto the courtyard and overlooks the 'big' barn opposite. The house was built by a successful linen merchant in 1765 as a farmstead to provide food for his family in the 'big house' further down the hill which had been built two years earlier.

The main house (currently a 2/3 bedroom could easily become 4/5): Front door with stained glass windows into lounge (35m2) with diagonal dark gray and oatmeal tiled floor, large fireplace with Benjamin Franklin log burner (1760s design) - (the closest you can get to an open fire with the ability to close down safely) and a feature oak spiral staircase leading up to spacious ‘oldy worldy' beamed 1st floor bedroom with own/en-suite bathroom/WC. (this first floor = 35m2)

A second spiral staircase leads on upwards from the bedroom to the top floor (35m2) with a further light and airy north facing large bedroom/studio (3 Velux windows overlooking open fields). Wooden floor.

Downstairs again .... A doorway leads from the lounge into the 'lower' and older half of the house (open plan 60m2) with open plan Dining Room with fireplace / log burner, painted beamed ceiling with newly fitted PVC double glazed door to front garden, fitted and equipped kitchen with Rangemaster double oven 5 burner hob and grill, back kitchen (with air source heat pump/air conditioner) storage cupboards and a separate utility room with washing machine & fridge etc., - all with ceramic tiled floors.

From the dining room enclosed Stairs to first floor ... a massive light and airy open bedroom/lounge/bathroom suite with coir carpeting / lounge area (with wooden floor) - again 3 velux windows and a dormer window give plenty of light .... and bathroom with bath/WC / Bidet and twin basins (wooden floor) .. this space/room alone is approx 60m2 in total.

Slate roof (replaced about 20 years ago) double glazed windows throughout. Electrics up to spec. Septic tank (+ spare 3000 litre tank installed for potential conversion of barn). Fast Fibre optic internet connection! The area was initially used as a test area - unusual to achieve such speeds in such a rural sparsely populated area.

Stained glass windows feature throughout the property.

The main barn (15m length) is very spacious with slate roof. The small 'baby' barn is crying out for conversion into a little studio. Lovely stonework and beams with loft area above. To the rear of this is the old bread oven.

The garden is to the south of the house ... with parking area and flower beds, established trees and shrubs ... and beyond the outbuildings is a larger grassy area with trees, shrubs and fruit trees (Apple (Braeburn and Cox), Walnut, Peach, Chestnut (3 trees), Olive and Fig). A much loved space. All planted by the current owners.

The neighbour's house backs onto the garden so, whilst good to have a neighbour close by, it is nicely private too.

A video - documents works carried out at the house: https://youtu.be/iHNVas7q0NA  • Better make a coffee it lasts about 7 minutes! (About the same as Bohemian Rhapsody!!)

Nearest Services:- Village with small supermarket, boulangerie, La Poste, Pharmacy bar & Restaurant 3,5km... slightly further away... Loudeac with all major supermarkets, DIY, Builder's Merchants, Bars, Hotels and a great Commercial Parc 10km.

The house sits within an area of outstanding natural beauty amid agriculture... 15km from Pontivy... Napoleon's Northern Garrison. Half an hour away is St Brieuc on the north coast - 15 minutes Lake Guerledan • 57 minutes from the south coast of the peninsula.

The Rigole d'Hilvern - a narrow 'cut' dug between 1828 & 1838 to carry water to the Nantes Brest Canal in times of relative drought runs about 250metres up the lane from the house and offers walking cycling and riding opportunities as it runs on a crushed stone base path, tree-lined (the Green Cathedral) for 60km (21km as the crow flies) from Lac de Bosmeleac to Hilvern where it joins the Nantes Brest Canal. https://wwwahouseinbrittany.blogspot.com/2009/12/rigole-dhilvern-our-house-in-brittany.html

DPE D  - 246 and B - 8