3-Bed Dordogne Vacation Home with Barn & 1-Acre Garden in Saint-Saud-Lacoussière



Saint Saud Lacoussiere, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Saint-Saud-Lacoussière (France)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 125m² Floor area
€195,000
House
Parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
125m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Saturday morning, and the only sounds reaching the terrace are birdsong, the distant clang of the Saint-Saud-Lacoussière church bell, and the faint creak of oak branches in the breeze. Your coffee goes cold because you keep forgetting to drink it. That's what this corner of the Dordogne does to you.
This three-bedroom house sits on just over an acre of land outside one of the Périgord Vert's quieter, more genuine villages — not a tourist honeypot, but a real French community with a weekly market, a pharmacy, a couple of decent cafés, and the kind of neighbours who still wave from across the lane. The property spans 125 square metres of living space, is in good condition, and has the bones — plus a 60-square-metre open barn and an attached garage — to become something genuinely personal with a modest refresh.
Walk through the front door and you're straight into the heart of the house: a 45-square-metre living room with terracotta tiles underfoot, a proper fireplace fitted with a wood burner, and double doors that push open onto the terrace and garden beyond. It's the kind of room that earns its keep in every season. In July, those doors stay open from breakfast to midnight. In January, the wood burner makes the room impossible to leave. The fitted kitchen connects naturally to this central space, and the whole ground floor flows well — two double bedrooms with warm wooden floors, a family bathroom, and a WC all sit within easy reach.
Upstairs, a mezzanine study area opens off the landing — exactly the right perch for working remotely with a view over the garden, or for teenagers who need their own corner of the world. The third bedroom completes the upper floor, giving the house genuine flexibility for families, couples with guests, or those who want a dedicated workspace that isn't a hallway.
Outside is where this property really starts to make sense as a second home purchase. The 4,420-square-metre garden — just over an acre — gives you room for a kitchen garden, space for grandchildren to run properly wild, and enough privacy that you'll forget you have neighbours at all. The gravelled parking area handles arrivals easily, the attached garage keeps a car or tools protected, and the detached open barn is the kind of structure that buyers from northern Europe immediately start imagining as a workshop, a covered entertaining area, a studio, or somewhere to park bikes and kayaks through the winter.
Saint-Saud-Lacoussière sits in the Périgord Vert — the green Périgord — which is the least-hyped and arguably most liveable of the four Dordognes. No crowds around Sarlat-style medieval lanes here. Instead: forests of chestnut and oak, the Auvézère river valley cutting south through rolling farmland, and a pace of life that feels almost deliberately unhurried. The Étang de Saint-Estèphe, a forty-hectare lake about twelve kilometres away near Nontron, has a supervised swimming beach, pedalos, fishing platforms, and walking trails around its banks — the default answer to any summer afternoon that needs a plan.
Nontron itself, the main town of the northern Dordogne, is roughly twenty minutes by car. It's an underrated food town: the Saturday market on the Place Paul Bert brings in local producers selling Périgord walnuts, goat cheeses, foie gras, and strawberries from the Vergt plateau. The town has a good selection of restaurants — the Auberge du Bon Accueil consistently earns local loyalty — and a handful of artisan shops including the Coutellerie Nontronnaise, a knife-making workshop that's been running since the 1700s and still does guided visits.
Brantôme, about thirty kilometres south, is where you take visiting friends who've never been to the Dordogne before. Abbaye de Brantôme sits on an island ringed by the Dronne river, and the town's weekly Friday market is one of the region's best for local produce and regional charcuterie. Périgueux, the departmental capital with its Roman amphitheatre ruins and the Cathédrale Saint-Front — recognisable by its cluster of Byzantine domes — is about an hour's drive south and worth repeated visits.
Hiking is the quiet backbone of daily life here. The GR 646 pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela passes through the area, and there are dozens of marked circuits through the surrounding forests and farmland, ranging from easy two-hour loops to serious full-day walks. Cyclists find the Périgord Vert's back roads genuinely rewarding — low traffic, constant gentle gradient changes, and farm gates that lead to views you didn't expect.
For international buyers — particularly those coming from the UK, Switzerland, or northern Europe — access is straightforward. Bergerac Airport is around ninety minutes south and handles regular Ryanair connections from London Stansted, Bristol, and Edinburgh. Limoges Airport to the north is a similar distance and serves additional UK routes. Bordeaux, two hours away, brings the full range of international connections. By road, this property sits well for driving holidays from the Channel ports.
The property comes with double glazing and central heating throughout — essentials that make the house usable year-round rather than just in summer, and that matter considerably for rental viability. The Dordogne's climate rewards those who come in shoulder season: May and September are often the finest months, with warm days, empty lanes, and the countryside at its most saturated green or golden. The region's long-term rental market for quality rural properties with gardens and outbuildings remains consistently active.
Key features at a glance:
- Three-bedroom house, 125 m², in good condition
- 45 m² living room with fireplace and fitted wood burner
- Double doors from living room onto private terrace
- Fitted and equipped kitchen
- Two ground-floor double bedrooms with wooden floors
- Mezzanine study/office area on upper level
- Family bathroom plus separate WC
- Attached garage for secure parking or storage
- Detached open barn, 60 m², with multiple conversion possibilities
- 4,420 m² (1.1 acres) of private garden with gravelled parking
- Double glazing and central heating throughout
- Energy rating Band D
- Peaceful rural setting with easy access to Saint-Saud-Lacoussière village
- Under two hours from Bergerac and Limoges airports
- Priced at €195,000 with agency fees included
At €195,000 with outbuildings, a full acre of land, and infrastructure already in place, this is a property with real room to grow. The house needs some cosmetic updating — new buyers will want to put their own stamp on it — but the structure, the setting, and the space are already there. As a vacation home in the Dordogne, it delivers the specific combination that's hard to find at this price: privacy, storage, outdoor space, and a genuine sense of place.
Get in touch with Homestra today to arrange a viewing. Properties like this — rural, versatile, and realistically priced — move without much fanfare in this part of France. Seeing it in person is the only way to understand what an acre of Périgord silence actually feels like on a Saturday morning.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 125m²
- Price per m²
- €1,560
- Garden size
- 4421m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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