2-Bed Normandy Village House with 1,000m² Garden on the Epte River, Fourges



Normandy, Eure, Fourges, France, Vexin-sur-Epte (France)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 105m² Floor area
€230,000
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
105m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Fourges starts quietly. A wood stove ticks as it warms up, the smell of coffee mixing with something faintly earthy drifting in from the garden — damp grass, river water, the particular cool greenness that only the Epte valley seems to produce. From the kitchen window, you can see the old mill wheel at the edge of the village, still and mossy in the early light. This is the pace of life that the Norman countryside does better than almost anywhere else in France, and this two-bedroom house on a thousand square metres of land puts you right at the centre of it.
Fourges sits in the heart of the Vexin Normand, a natural regional park that most Parisians have never discovered — which is precisely the point. The village itself is famous locally for its 12th-century watermill on the Epte, a river that famously marked the medieval boundary between Normandy and the Île-de-France. Monet painted these fields. The light here has a quality that artists have been chasing for centuries, soft and diffuse in summer, dramatic and low in autumn, and frankly extraordinary on winter afternoons when the frost sits on the meadows and the river runs dark green. You will notice it every single day.
The house is single-storey, a practical layout that makes it genuinely easy to manage as a second home or holiday property in France. The entrance opens into a living space anchored by a wood-burning stove — the real thing, not decorative — which handles the bulk of heating through the colder months without fuss. The kitchen is fitted and equipped, ready to use from day one, which matters when you're arriving on a Friday evening and want to eat well without a supermarket run. One generous bedroom and a bathroom complete the main floor, alongside a separate WC, a second small bedroom or home office depending on how you use the space, and a utility room that doubles as a workshop. Up under the eaves there's a third sleeping area with built-in storage: useful for weekend guests, adaptable as a reading room, or simply the overflow space that any proper country house needs.
The garden is the quiet headline. A thousand square metres is not a small patch — it's space for a terrace under a pergola, a proper vegetable plot, fruit trees, a corner for the children to run around in. At the back of the plot, directly bordering the garden, runs the voie verte: a traffic-free greenway that follows the old railway line through the valley, used by cyclists, walkers, and roller skaters from the surrounding villages. You can step through your garden gate and be on it in seconds. In summer, the route connects through to Gasny and beyond, making it possible to cycle all the way to the Seine without touching a road.
The Epte valley comes alive between May and September. Markets fill the squares in Gisors on Saturday mornings — proper markets with local cheese, Normandy cider, andouillette, and old men arguing over tomatoes. The Thursday market in Vernon, twenty minutes west, is worth a specific trip for the fish alone. Vernon also gives you the main access point for Giverny, where Monet's house and gardens draw visitors from across the world, yet somehow the surrounding countryside remains genuinely unhurried and local-feeling. Les Andelys, forty minutes east along the Seine, has the ruined Château Gaillard built by Richard the Lionheart above a river bend so dramatic it looks invented.
Hiking in the Vexin means chalk plateau paths, bocage hedgerows, and river valley walks with almost no one on them mid-week. The GR2 long-distance trail runs nearby, tracing the Seine through some of the most quietly dramatic scenery in northern France. Cycling options are extensive — the voie verte is just the start. Road cyclists use the plateau routes for serious training, while mountain bikers have trails through the Forêt de Lyons to the north.
Paris is about ninety minutes by car, less on a clear run via the A13. The SNCF station at Vernon-Giverny connects to Paris Saint-Lazare in under an hour, meaning this works as a genuine weekend escape without a complex journey. Rouen is forty-five minutes, giving access to a real city: the cathedral, the Gros-Horloge, the covered market in the old quarter where you can eat duck confit on a Tuesday lunchtime and feel entirely reasonable about it. Charles de Gaulle Airport is roughly two hours, putting this within comfortable range for international buyers flying in from the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, or further afield.
The property market in the Vexin Normand remains one of the better-value propositions in the greater Paris basin. Prices here have not moved at the rate of the Luberon or the Dordogne, which means there is still genuine value for buyers willing to look north of the Loire. For international buyers, France offers a well-established legal framework for property ownership, and the notarial system provides clear title and transaction transparency. EU buyers face no restrictions; non-EU buyers will want to take advice from a notaire on ownership structures, though the process is generally straightforward. Rental income potential is real — proximity to Giverny means summer demand is consistent, and the voie verte draws cycling tourists throughout the warmer months.
Key features at a glance:
- Single-storey 105m² house in good condition, ready to occupy
- Two bedrooms plus a third sleeping space under the eaves
- Fitted and fully equipped kitchen
- Wood-burning stove as primary heating in the living room
- Separate bathroom and independent WC
- Utility room and workshop space
- 1,000m² private garden with on-site parking
- Voie verte greenway directly bordering the rear of the garden
- Located in Fourges village, beside the historic Epte watermill
- Within the Vexin Normand Regional Natural Park
- 20 minutes to Vernon and Giverny (Monet's Gardens)
- 90 minutes to Paris by car; under 60 minutes by train from Vernon
- Strong rental appeal due to Giverny tourism and cycling routes
- Accessible to international buyers with clear French property law
If you've been looking for a vacation home in Normandy that gives you real countryside without sacrificing practicality, this house in Fourges is worth your attention. Contact us through Homestra to arrange a viewing or to request the full technical dossier — a property at this price point in this location won't sit on the market for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 105m²
- Price per m²
- €2,190
- Garden size
- 1000m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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