3-Bed Renovated House with Covered Pool Near Nontron, Dordogne – Second Home France



France, Civray (France)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 185m² Floor area
€263,900
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
185m²
No garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Picture a Sunday morning in the Périgord Vert. The kitchen window is open, a coffee is brewing, and the only sound reaching you from outside is birdsong and the faint rustle of the walnut trees at the edge of your enclosed garden. No traffic. No crowds. Just 1,560 square metres of private land, a covered pool glinting under its dome, and a pace of life that feels like it belongs to another century — the good kind.
This fully renovated three-bedroom house sits in a quiet hamlet just ten minutes from Nontron, a town that punches well above its weight for a place of its size. Nontron is the capital of the Périgord Vert, the green and deeply underrated northern pocket of the Dordogne département, and it wears that title with quiet confidence. The old knife-making tradition still lives here — the Nontron knife, with its boxwood handle and distinct silhouette, has been crafted in the same spot since the 15th century, and you can visit the workshop on Rue Carnot and watch blades being finished by hand. It's the kind of place that reminds you France hasn't been entirely swallowed by modernity.
The house itself spans 185 square metres across two levels and has been renovated to a standard that means you genuinely can walk in, unpack, and spend the first evening by the pool rather than drawing up a list of contractors. That matters enormously for buyers coming from the UK, Ireland, or northern Europe who want a second home without a five-year renovation saga attached to it. Good condition here means good condition — solid roof, clean interiors, functional systems.
Downstairs, the scale of the living spaces is the first thing that catches you. A single-story living room of 58 square metres flows openly into a 28-square-metre dining room — together, that's a combined social space large enough to host the extended family at Christmas or a long summer lunch that drifts into evening aperitifs. The kitchen runs to 20 square metres with a back kitchen behind it, which is a detail that sounds minor until you're actually living there: somewhere to store the pool towels, the market haul from Brantôme on a Saturday morning, the muddy boots after a walk along the Dronne river. A bathroom and WC complete the ground floor.
Upstairs, three bedrooms and a bathroom sit alongside a mezzanine — that open, gallery-like space that works equally well as a reading corner, a children's play area, or a home office if you're working remotely and want the view of the garden below. The bedroom arrangement suits a family or a couple who frequently host guests, with enough separation between spaces to give everyone a sense of their own room.
Then there's the pool. Covered by a dome, 4 by 9 metres, and usable across a longer season than most outdoor pools in France. The Périgord Vert enjoys warm summers — July and August regularly sit between 25 and 30 degrees — but the dome extends your swimming window into May and October, which changes the calculus for owners who can't always escape in peak season. A pergola-covered terrace links the house to the pool area, and the enclosed land means children can move freely between the two without the road anxiety that comes with more open plots. There's also a well on the land and a garage, both of which have real practical value — the well for garden irrigation during the dry months, the garage for secure storage of bikes, kayaks, or a second car.
The Périgord Vert itself is criminally overlooked compared to its neighbour, the Périgord Noir down around Sarlat and Les Eyzies. That's actually a selling point. The roads are quieter, the villages less toured, the prices — both for property and for a glass of wine at a terrasse — considerably more honest. The Tuesday market in Nontron has locals buying from locals: walnuts still in their shells in autumn, fresh goat's cheese wrapped in chestnut leaves, thick slabs of pâté de campagne that would cost three times as much in a Parisian delicatessen. The market at Brantôme, twenty minutes south along the D675, is another weekly ritual worth building your calendar around — held in the shadow of a Benedictine abbey on a bend of the Dronne, it's one of the most atmospheric in the whole region.
Outdoor life here centres on water and forest. The Dronne and Bandiat rivers are popular with canoeists from spring through early autumn, with hire points in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière and Lesterps. Cycling routes cut through the forest on smooth, lightly trafficked departmental roads. The Forêt de Lanmary and the trails around the Étang de Mondon offer proper hiking without needing to drive an hour to find a trailhead. In autumn, the forest floor fills with cèpes — the local name for porcini — and the whole region takes on a ritual, deeply satisfying quality as families and neighbours head out with baskets on weekend mornings.
For international buyers, the Dordogne remains one of France's most established and legally straightforward markets for foreign ownership. There's a well-developed network of English-speaking notaires, and the notarial system protects both parties in a way that many buyers from common-law countries find reassuring once they understand it. Financing through French banks is accessible for EU and non-EU buyers with the right documentation, and ownership through an SCI (a French civil property company) is worth discussing with a fiscal adviser if you plan to rent the property or eventually pass it to heirs.
On the rental side, a covered-pool property near Nontron with this much indoor and outdoor space sits in a category that commands solid weekly rates through platforms targeting the Dordogne market. Weeks in July and August typically fill fastest, but the dome pool gives you a genuine argument for May, June, September, and October bookings that a standard outdoor pool can't match. Local management agencies in Périgueux and Nontron handle key exchanges, cleaning, and guest communication for owners who aren't based in France — worth factoring into your ownership plan from the start.
The nearest airports with regular international services are Bergerac (roughly 80 kilometres south, with Ryanair and others flying from London Stansted, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Dublin), Bordeaux-Mérignac (about 130 kilometres west, with much wider European coverage), and Limoges (90 kilometres northeast, another Ryanair hub). The drive to the house from Bergerac on a clear afternoon takes just over an hour.
Key features at a glance:
- Three bedrooms and two bathrooms across 185 square metres of fully renovated living space
- Enormous 58 sqm living room opening to a 28 sqm dining area — ideal for entertaining
- Separate 20 sqm kitchen plus back kitchen for practical day-to-day storage
- Covered dome pool (4 x 9 metres) extending the swimming season from May to October
- Pergola terrace connecting house to pool and garden
- 1,560 sqm of enclosed private land — secure for children and pets
- Private well for garden irrigation
- Garage for secure vehicle or equipment storage
- Mezzanine level with flexible use as study, reading space, or children's area
- Quiet hamlet setting, ten minutes from all Nontron amenities
- 20 minutes from Brantôme, one of the Périgord's most visited riverside towns
- Move-in ready — no renovation budget required
- Strong short-term rental potential with covered pool as key differentiator
- Accessible from Bergerac, Bordeaux, and Limoges international airports
If you've been considering a vacation home in France and keep getting priced out of the Périgord Noir or the Lot, this is the region and the property that makes the numbers work without asking you to compromise on space, quality, or genuine French countryside character. 185 square metres, a covered pool, and a hamlet address in the Dordogne at this price is not something that sits on the market for long.
Get in touch with the Homestra team today to arrange a viewing or request a detailed information pack. We can connect you with local legal and fiscal advisers, help coordinate your visit from abroad, and walk you through every step of buying your second home in France.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 185m²
- Price per m²
- €1,426
- Garden size
- 1570m²
- Has Garden
- No
- 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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