3-Bed Country House with Barn & 2 Acres in Normandy — 10 Min Drive to Coast



Normandy, Manhce, Le Loreur, France, Hudimesnil (France)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 89m² Floor area
€107,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
89m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand at the kitchen window on a October morning and you'll hear it — the wind cutting across open bocage fields, leaves skittering along the stone path to the barn, and somewhere in the distance the faint toll of the church bell from the village of Hudimesnil. This is Normandy at its most honest. No tourist gloss, no weekend crowds. Just raw countryside, salt-threaded air, and the kind of quiet that most people have to drive three hours from Paris to find — except from here, Paris is less than four hours by road and the Normandy coast is a ten-minute drive.
The property sits in the commune of Le Loreur, tucked into the Manche department — an area that most international buyers haven't yet discovered, which is precisely why the prices still make sense. At 107,000 euros for nearly two acres of land, a three-bedroom country house, a semi-attached barn, and a convertible loft of 50 square metres, you're buying raw potential at a price point that frankly doesn't exist anymore in the better-known corners of France.
Let's be straightforward about what this is. The house needs a full renovation — the energy rating is G, there's single glazing throughout, and the heating relies on electric radiators and two open fireplaces. This isn't a lock-up-and-enjoy situation. It's a project. But for the right buyer, that's the whole point. The bones are good: thick stone walls, proper room proportions, an entrance hall, a generous kitchen and dining room with an open fireplace, a rear kitchen, and a sitting room that measures over 29 square metres — a room that, once restored, will be the kind of space you spend entire winter evenings in, fire going, local Calvados on the table, not wanting to be anywhere else.
Upstairs, two double bedrooms and a third connecting room give you flexible sleeping arrangements for family or guests. The loft space above — a full 50 square metres — is unconverted and sits there like a blank page. Dormer windows, an extra bedroom suite, a reading room with a view over the fields — the planning is yours to do.
The barn changes the equation significantly. Semi-attached to the house, it opens up possibilities that go well beyond storage: a workshop, a gîte conversion subject to planning, a creative studio, a garage for a collection of old cars. Barn conversions in Normandy have been producing excellent secondary income for owners who run them as holiday lets, and the proximity to the coast only strengthens that case.
That coastline deserves a mention. Ten minutes by car puts you at the beaches of the Côte des Havres — broad, wind-scoured strands where the tide drops so far it leaves a kilometre of wet sand between you and the water. Hauteville-sur-Mer, Bréhal, and Coutainville are the local favourites. Coutainville in particular has a proper seaside character: a market on Tuesday mornings, decent moules-frites at the restaurants along the front, and a promenade that fills up in July and August but stays pleasantly calm the rest of the year. Granville, the art deco seaside town and home to Christian Dior's childhood house and gardens, is under 20 kilometres away — a genuinely worthwhile afternoon, especially in spring when the gardens are at their best.
Inland, Normandy's food culture is reason enough to spend extended time here. The markets at Coutances — the nearest significant town, about 15 minutes from Le Loreur — run on Saturdays and pull in local producers selling Camembert, Livarot, and Pont-l'Évêque at prices that will permanently ruin supermarket cheese for you. The cider and Calvados routes through the Manche are well-marked cycling and driving circuits; the apple orchards between Le Loreur and Percy are at their most arresting in late April when they're in full blossom, and again in October during the harvest.
For history, you're in the right region. The D-Day beaches and American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer are roughly 90 kilometres north — a trip worth making at least once, and one that tends to affect visitors more than they expect. Mont Saint-Michel is approximately 80 kilometres south and, if you go in the off-season on a weekday morning, extraordinary.
The climate here is Atlantic — mild, damp, and green. Summers are warm rather than hot, rarely exceeding 25°C, which makes it comfortable for the kind of outdoor life the property's land encourages: a kitchen garden, a few fruit trees, maybe some chickens. Winters are cool but rarely severe. The rain comes regularly, which is why everything stays so intensely, obstinately green.
For international buyers, the Manche department is a well-trodden path. Brittany Ferries runs year-round crossings from Poole and Portsmouth to Cherbourg and Caen, both under two hours from Le Loreur by road. Many British and Dutch owners treat Normandy properties as long-weekend destinations they can reach without flying. Post-Brexit ownership rules for non-EU nationals are straightforward — France allows non-residents to purchase property freely, though you'll want a notaire familiar with international sales and an accountant who can advise on the SCI ownership structure if you're buying with family or planning to rent. Rental income from furnished tourist accommodation is taxed under the micro-BIC regime at favourable rates for lower-volume lets.
Key features at a glance:
- Three bedrooms plus a 50m2 convertible loft with further bedroom potential
- Total habitable surface of 108m2
- Semi-attached barn offering conversion possibilities
- Land measuring 1.91 acres
- Two open fireplaces on the ground floor
- Kitchen/dining room and separate rear kitchen
- Sitting/dining room over 29m2
- Shower room and separate bathroom with WC
- Ten-minute drive to Normandy Atlantic coast beaches
- 15 minutes from Coutances market town
- 20km from Granville and the Dior Gardens
- 80km from Mont Saint-Michel
- Accessible by ferry from southern England year-round
- Full renovation project with pricing that reflects the work required
- 107,000 euros including agency fees
A property like this at this price in this part of France won't sit on the market for long — the combination of land, barn, and coastal proximity at under 110,000 euros is genuinely rare in 2024. If you're a buyer who knows how to look past a G-rated energy label and see what a stone farmhouse in Normandy can become, this is worth getting on a ferry for.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request the full diagnostic reports and floor plans. The right buyer will know immediately.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 89m²
- Price per m²
- €1,202
- Garden size
- 8890m²
- 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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