3-Bed Country House with Pool & Orchard, Walk to Saint-Maurin Village – Lot-et-Garonne



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, St-Maurin, France, Saint-Maurin (France)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 169m² Floor area
€345,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
169m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still July evening, the only sounds you'll hear from the sun room terrace are the cicadas starting up in the oaks, the faint clink of glasses drifting from the village café a few hundred metres down the lane, and the occasional splash from the pool where someone couldn't resist one last swim before dinner. That's the rhythm of life at this 169 m² single-storey house on the edge of Saint-Maurin, one of the most quietly compelling villages in the Lot-et-Garonne — and a property that genuinely earns the word "immaculate" without you having to take anyone's word for it.
Built in 1989 and then thoroughly reimagined by its current owners over the years since, the house sits on 6,875 m² of private grounds just a short walk from the medieval heart of Saint-Maurin. The village itself is the kind of place that still makes you stop walking and stare — a 12th-century abbey, honey-coloured stone arcades, a weekly market that the locals actually use, not one staged for tourists. Summer brings the famous night markets, where the square fills with tables, local Gascony producers set out their charcuterie and Armagnac, and at some point someone wheels out a projector for the open-air cinema. You can walk to all of it in five minutes, then come home to complete silence.
Step inside and the architecture does something clever: it keeps things open without feeling exposed. A wide entrance hall with a feature arch sets a quiet tone of quality that the rest of the house follows through on. The living room is generous and very well lit, with three sets of French doors that fold the indoors out into the garden. A handsome brick fireplace with a wood-burning stove anchors the room in winter, while underfloor heating — the sort of detail that makes a country house genuinely usable twelve months a year rather than just June through September — takes care of the rest.
The kitchen deserves its own paragraph. Whoever specified this room had opinions, which is exactly what you want. Handmade walnut cabinetry, granite worktops, integrated appliances — and then, the centrepiece: a working 1930s Godin range cooker. Cast iron, wood-burning, and built to outlast everything around it. Cooking a Sunday confit de canard on a Godin range while autumn light comes through the window is the kind of thing you'll find yourself describing to people back home.
The sleeping quarters are arranged sensibly for family use or guests. The main bedroom has its own dressing room and dedicated shower room. Two further bedrooms share a modern family bathroom. The layout is single-storey throughout, which matters more than buyers sometimes realise — for young children, for older relatives, and simply for the ease of that half-awake stumble to the kitchen for coffee at seven in the morning.
Outside is where the 6,875 m² of grounds earn their keep. The sun room — glazed, sheltered, with a built-in barbecue — functions as a proper outdoor living room for around eight months of the year. Beyond it, stone terraces step down through the garden at different levels, each one catching the afternoon light at a slightly different angle. The 10 x 5 metre pool sits on a travertine-surround terrace. There's a well with an electric pump for irrigation, a separate single garage with storage, a chicken coop if you want fresh eggs and something to do with the grandchildren, and an orchard. The fishpond — and the current owners aren't wrong about this — is genuinely the best one in the village. Koi, water lilies, the soft sound of moving water. It's absurdly peaceful.
Practical matters: the integrated main garage has an electric door tall enough for a motorhome, which is useful whether or not you own one. Oil-fired central heating and double glazing throughout mean the house runs efficiently in both directions. No projects, no surprises — this is a property you move into, not a property you fix first.
Agen is 25 minutes by car. It's a proper Gascon market town with a great Saturday market on the Boulevard de la République, a museum with more Goyas than you'd expect, and the TGV station that puts Paris three hours and ten minutes away — an easy Friday-evening escape from the city, or a Sunday return for owners based in the capital. Toulouse airport is just over an hour south, with direct flights across Europe and beyond, making this a realistic holiday home for buyers flying in from the UK, the Netherlands, or Scandinavia. Bordeaux is roughly an hour and forty minutes northwest if you want a bigger city for a weekend.
The Lot-et-Garonne itself deserves more attention than it usually gets. Sandwiched between the Dordogne to the north and the Gers to the south, it's quieter than both — fewer tour buses, better prices, the same quality of countryside. The Garonne river runs through the department, lined with sunflower fields in summer and vineyards in autumn. The Buzet wine cooperative, fifteen minutes from Saint-Maurin, produces serious red wines for extremely unserious prices. Walking and cycling trails thread through the surrounding hills; the GR652 pilgrimage route to Santiago passes nearby, which means the lanes are well-maintained and the views are the kind that make long-distance walkers stop and sit down.
The Lot-et-Garonne property market has been steadily attractive for international buyers over the past decade, and Saint-Maurin sits at a level of quality and convenience that maintains its value well. A house in this condition, at this size, with this land and these amenities, represents solid buying by any measure. For buyers considering rental income when not in residence, the combination of pool, orchard, and village proximity makes this a strong short-term let proposition during the long French summer season.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms across 169 m² of single-storey living
- 6,875 m² of private grounds with mature specimen trees and orchard
- 10 x 5 metre swimming pool with travertine terrace
- 1930s Godin cast-iron wood-burning range cooker in bespoke walnut kitchen
- Underfloor heating plus oil-fired central heating and double glazing throughout
- Sun room with built-in barbecue opening to terraced garden
- Brick fireplace with wood-burning stove in main living room
- Master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite shower room
- Integrated oversized garage with electric door (motorhome height) plus separate outbuilding
- Well with electric pump, fishpond, and chicken coop
- 5-minute walk to Saint-Maurin village, café, markets, and summer open-air cinema
- 25 minutes to Agen TGV (Paris in 3 hours 10 minutes)
- Just over 1 hour from Toulouse-Blagnac international airport
- Move-in ready condition — no renovation required
- Strong holiday rental potential in the high-demand Lot-et-Garonne market
If you've been looking at French country houses for a while, you already know that finding one that ticks every box without also requiring a six-month build project is genuinely rare. This one does. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing — this is the kind of property that reads well on a screen but makes much more sense the moment you're standing on the terrace with a glass of Buzet in your hand at dusk.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 169m²
- Price per m²
- €2,041
- Garden size
- 6875m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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