10-Bed Country Estate with Pool & Guest Barn — Holiday Home in Lot-et-Garonne



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, Le Temple-sur-Lot, France, Le Temple-sur-Lot (France)
10 Bedrooms · 7 Bathrooms · 410m² Floor area
€675,000
House
No parking
10 Bedrooms
7 Bathrooms
410m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Step outside on a July morning and the first thing you notice is the silence. Not the absence of sound exactly, but a particular quality of it — birdsong carrying across open fields, the faint rustle of vines along the terrace, the distant church bell from the village of Le Temple-sur-Lot marking eight o'clock. You're standing in front of a centuries-old Lebanese cedar so vast its canopy throws shade across half the garden. This is the kind of moment that makes people stop wondering whether they made the right decision. They already know.
This 410-square-metre country estate in the Lot-et-Garonne sits on its own private grounds with open views sweeping in every direction — and no neighbors close enough to matter. It comprises three distinct stone buildings: a 19th-century farmhouse, a superbly converted six-bedroom guest barn, and a self-contained one-bedroom cottage called Le Grenier. Ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms. Currently operating as a profitable guesthouse, it works equally well as a multi-generational family retreat, a boutique hotel project, a yoga or wellness retreat, or simply a very generous private home for people who want room to breathe in rural southwest France.
The original farmhouse is where the estate's soul lives. Stone walls that have absorbed two centuries of Gascon summers keep the interior cool without a fuss. A large, light-filled living room centers on a wood-burning stove — irreplaceable on those mid-December evenings when the Lot-et-Garonne fog sits low over the valley and you've just come back from the Villeneuve-sur-Lot market with a wheel of Ossau-Iraty and a bottle from a Duras cooperative. The kitchen runs on gas, which serious cooks will appreciate, and a long hallway connects the back of the house to the gardens, so there's always a reason to move between inside and out. Oil-fired central heating keeps things practical when seasons turn, and air conditioning covers the rooms where it counts most in August.
The barn conversion is the showpiece. Exposed stone, original timber beams, ceilings high enough to feel theatrical — and a first-floor lounge with a full-height vaulted ceiling that stops people mid-sentence the first time they walk in. Six bedrooms, a country kitchen with a gas cooker, comfortable dining and lounge areas, and a wood-burning stove in one of the bedrooms that makes winter feel like something to look forward to rather than endure. Outside the barn, a vine-draped terrace connects to a large covered reception area with a summer kitchen. Lunches here tend to stretch into the late afternoon. That's not a design flaw.
Le Grenier, the cottage, sits apart with its own private terrace — ideal for guests who want independence, or for a caretaker, or for the adult child who needs their own front door. It's compact but considered: open-plan living, proper kitchen, modern bathroom, and enough character to feel like its own destination rather than an afterthought.
A fourth building — a traditional timber-framed barn — currently houses workshops, garages and storage. It's the estate's wildcard, offering genuine potential for development or commercial use subject to planning. An artist's studio, a spa, additional accommodation, a wine cellar worth taking seriously. The bones are there.
The grounds themselves are the kind that take years to understand fully. Vegetable beds, an herb garden, a working chicken coop, mature planting that creates pocket after pocket of shade and privacy. The swimming pool — ten metres by five — faces south with a generous sun terrace and the kind of outlook that makes you feel the pool exists purely to frame the view, though it functions excellently as a pool too. And everywhere, anchoring the whole composition, that cedar. It has watched this estate through monarchies, republics, world wars, and harvests beyond counting. It is simply not replaceable.
Le Temple-sur-Lot itself is a small commune in the Pays de Serres, a rolling plateau that runs between the Lot and Garonne rivers. Five minutes by car gets you to basic amenities. Villeneuve-sur-Lot — a proper market town with independent bakers, butchers, covered market halls, and restaurants serving duck confit with the kind of consistency that makes you give up ordering anything else — is around 20 minutes. Agen, the prune capital of France and a city with genuine restaurants, a good art museum (the Musée des Beaux-Arts holds a strong Goya collection), and a TGV station with direct trains to Bordeaux and Paris, sits about 40 minutes west along the D813.
Bordeaux airport is roughly 90 minutes by car, with low-cost and direct flights connecting to London, Amsterdam, Dublin, and beyond. Bergerac airport, smaller but convenient, is about an hour north and handles significant UK traffic. The estate is genuinely accessible for an international buyer who plans to spend school holidays and longer summer stretches here, then rent it out through the rest of the year.
And the rental potential here is not speculative. The property already operates as a guesthouse with an established track record. The infrastructure — multiple kitchens, independent access to separate buildings, the pool, covered outdoor dining — is purpose-built for hosting. The Lot-et-Garonne draws visitors for its cycling routes along the Lot River (the Lot Valley is increasingly recognized alongside Tuscany and Provence as a serious slow-travel destination), its canoe rental points, its truffle markets in winter, the Pruneau festival in Agen each September, walking routes across the Pays de Serres, and wine tourism stretching from nearby Buzet and Duras appellations east toward Cahors. There is a real and growing appetite for the kind of rural French experience this estate delivers.
The property is in good overall condition — genuinely well-maintained, not just described that way. International buyers working through a French notaire will find the acquisition process straightforward, and ownership costs in the Lot-et-Garonne remain modest compared to the Dordogne or the Côte d'Azur. Property taxes are reasonable, and a purchase at this scale often lends itself to an SCI (Société Civile Immobilière) structure for estate planning and inheritance purposes — worth discussing with a French notary early in the process.
Key features at a glance:
- 410 sqm across three distinct stone buildings on private grounds
- 10 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms total
- 19th-century farmhouse with wood-burning stove, gas kitchen, and central heating
- Six-bedroom guest barn with vaulted ceiling lounge and vine-covered terrace
- Self-contained one-bedroom Le Grenier cottage with private terrace
- Fourth barn with workshop and garage space and development potential
- 10m x 5m south-facing swimming pool with large sun terrace
- Mature gardens including vegetable beds, herb garden, and chicken coop
- Centuries-old Lebanese cedar as centrepiece of the grounds
- No close neighbors, open countryside views in every direction
- Five minutes from local amenities, 20 minutes to Villeneuve-sur-Lot
- Agen TGV station approximately 40 minutes west
- Bordeaux airport approx. 90 minutes, Bergerac airport approx. 60 minutes
- Currently operating as a successful guesthouse with proven rental income
- Suited to continued guesthouse use, boutique hotel conversion, retreat business, or private family estate
At €675,000, this is the kind of property that rarely appears on the market in this condition with this much flexibility. Estates like this tend to sell quietly, to buyers who recognized what they were looking at before anyone else did.
If you're considering a second home in southwest France, a income-generating holiday property in Lot-et-Garonne, or a project with the space to grow into something genuinely special, get in touch with the Homestra team today to arrange a private viewing. Some properties are worth getting on a plane for. This is one of them.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 10
- Size
- 410m²
- Price per m²
- €1,646
- Garden size
- 12000m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 7
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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