3-Bed Norman Country House in Bouquetot with 1.5-Acre Garden – Holiday Home Near Rouen



Normandy, Eure, Bourg-Achard, France, Bourg-Achard (France)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 103m² Floor area
€260,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
103m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Bouquetot moves slowly. The smell of fresh bread drifts up from the boulangerie in Bourg-Achard five minutes down the road, church bells carry across flat green fields, and beyond the tall hedgerows that frame this property's 4,580 square metre plot, there's almost nothing to hear but birdsong and the occasional tractor on a distant lane. This is rural Normandy at its most genuine — not the postcard version, the real one.
Built in 1960 and kept in consistently good condition by owners who clearly cared about the details, this 103 square metre house sits on a fully enclosed, tree-lined lot that feels more like a private park than a garden. Step outside on a June evening and the light stays golden until nearly ten. The flat lawn is wide enough for a game of pétanque, a badminton net, or simply a table long enough to seat the extended family for a Norman spread — think camembert straight from the market at Pont-Audemer, a terrine from the charcuterie in Bourg-Achard's Wednesday market, and a bottle of local Calvados to close things out.
The entrance through the veranda-style extension sets the tone: this is a house that has been lived in and loved. The 26 square metre living room faces southwest, which matters enormously in Normandy — afternoon sun floods the room, and you earn every one of those winter hours around the fireplace insert. The tiled floors are easy to maintain, practical in the way that a proper country house should be. The fitted kitchen is ready to go from day one, no renovation project standing between you and your first summer here.
Three bedrooms give the property genuine flexibility. Use it as a family holiday home and everyone gets their own space. Rent it out during peak summer weeks — Normandy draws a steady stream of French and international visitors from June through September, and a house with a garden this size is increasingly rare and increasingly sought after. Double-glazed aluminum, PVC, and timber windows keep the house properly insulated, meaning the heating bills don't become a conversation piece in November.
Bourg-Achard itself is one of those small Eure towns that punches above its weight for everyday convenience. Supermarkets, pharmacies, a post office, restaurants — everything you need without driving to a city. Rouen, one of France's great provincial capitals, is about 30 kilometres east. Half a morning in Rouen means the Gothic spires of the cathedral that obsessed Monet, a wander through the medieval Gros-Horloge lane, and lunch at one of the brasseries along the Rue Eau de Robec before you're back in time for an afternoon in the garden. The A13 motorway connects directly to Paris in roughly 90 minutes, which makes this a genuinely viable second home for buyers based in the capital — or flying into Charles de Gaulle.
Closer to home, the Seine valley offers some of the best cycling in northern France. The Seine à Vélo route runs along the river through scenery that hasn't changed much since the Impressionists painted it — Giverny and Monet's famous water garden are less than 50 kilometres away, an easy half-day excursion. The Forêt de Brotonne nature reserve is practically on the doorstep: 10,000 hectares of oak forest where you can walk for hours without crossing a road. Autumn here is something else entirely — the oaks turn amber, wild mushroom hunters appear on the forest paths, and every village seems to hold a marché du terroir on some random Saturday morning.
Normandy's coastline is about 90 minutes north. The D-Day beaches around Arromanches and Bayeux are worth a full day of serious history. Étretat's white chalk cliffs — those extraordinary rock arches above the English Channel — draw visitors year-round and hold up beautifully on a grey winter afternoon when the dramatic light makes them look like something from a Japanese woodblock print. Deauville and Trouville offer the opposite energy: boardwalk, horse racing, film festivals, and the kind of old-fashioned seaside grandeur that the French do better than anyone.
For international buyers, Eure remains one of the more accessible entry points into French property ownership. Prices here are considerably lower than in the Pays d'Auge (the famous thatched-cottage country around Lisieux and Orbec), and the infrastructure — motorway access, proximity to Rouen — makes it far more practical as a year-round retreat. Non-EU buyers should factor in the standard notaire fees of approximately 7–8% on top of the purchase price, and the relatively new 270-day annual residency cap for non-EU second home owners in France, though this rarely affects holiday home buyers in practice. EU citizens face no restrictions whatsoever. The French property market in rural Normandy has shown steady demand from both domestic Parisian buyers and British, Belgian, and Dutch buyers — the latter two groups particularly active in the Eure département given its easy road and ferry connections to the Low Countries.
At 260,000 euros for a move-in ready house with a garden of this scale, this is the kind of listing that doesn't sit on the market long once the right buyer finds it.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 103 sq m of living space
- 4,580 sq m (approx. 1.5 acres) of fully enclosed, landscaped garden
- Southwest-facing 26 sq m living room with fireplace insert
- Veranda-style entrance extension
- Fitted and fully equipped kitchen, ready to use immediately
- Double-glazed windows (aluminum, PVC, and timber) for year-round insulation
- Located in Bouquetot, 5 minutes from Bourg-Achard's shops and services
- 30 km from Rouen city centre via the A13 corridor
- 90-minute drive to Paris via the A13 motorway
- Proximity to the Seine à Vélo cycling route and Forêt de Brotonne
- Under 50 km from Giverny and Monet's Garden
- Strong rental appeal in peak summer months (June–September)
- Good structural condition — no major renovation required
- Flat, accessible plot suitable for families with young children
If this sounds like the kind of place where you could genuinely switch off — where the pace of life is set by the seasons rather than a schedule — get in touch with Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request a full property information pack. Properties with gardens this size, at this price point, in an area this well-connected, are becoming genuinely hard to find.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 103m²
- Price per m²
- €2,524
- Garden size
- 4580m²
- 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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