3-Bed Single-Level House with Pool & Garden Near Issigeac, Dordogne Holiday Home



Aquitaine, Dordogne, Issigeac, France, Issigeac (France)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 107m² Floor area
€278,200
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
107m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in the Dordogne has a particular quality to it. The air smells of cut grass and something faintly herbal — wild thyme, maybe, drifting up from the countryside that rolls away beyond your pool terrace. You open the patio doors from the kitchen and the sound follows: a distant church bell from the village, the soft knock of a shutter, absolute quiet between each ring. This is what you actually bought.
This three-bedroom, single-level home sits just outside Issigeac — one of the most genuinely pretty bastide villages in the Périgord Pourpre — and it does something rare for a property at this price point: it's ready. No projects. No compromise on the important things. You walk in, unpack, and start living.
The open-plan living, dining, and kitchen space is the kind of room that earns that overused word "heart of the home" — except here it's actually true. Large double-glazed windows pull the garden into the room visually, and two sets of patio doors open fully onto a covered terrace so that indoor and outdoor living collapse into one uninterrupted space across the warmer months. A wood-burning stove anchors the room for the other side of the year, when Dordogne evenings turn cool and there's nowhere you'd rather be than here with a glass of Bergerac rouge and something slow-cooking on the stove. The kitchen and dining area share the same easy flow, so cooking doesn't isolate whoever's at the hob from the rest of the table — a detail that matters enormously when you're hosting friends for ten days in August.
The sleeping wing sits at the opposite end of the house, a sensible arrangement that gives kids or guests real separation from the living spaces. Three proper bedrooms, a shower room, and a separate WC. There's also a flexible room currently used as an office that would function well as a nursery, reading room, or a fourth sleeping space when the cousins arrive. A large garage provides laundry space and serious storage, which international buyers sometimes underestimate the value of until they realize they need somewhere to keep bikes, pool equipment, and the wine they impulse-bought at the Monbazillac cave.
Then there's the basement. Enormous, full of potential, with direct garden access. Gym, games room, summer kitchen, extra guest suite — all of this is genuinely achievable here (subject to the usual planning checks). It's not a selling point that requires imagination to reach; the bones are already there.
Outside, the 9m x 4m pool is surrounded by proper decking and overlooks open countryside. The grounds are fully enclosed — important if you're renting the property or have children — and have been kept with evident care: mature planting, seasonal flower beds, and a working vegetable patch that produces courgettes and tomatoes through July and August faster than most households can eat them.
Issigeac itself is five minutes by car and absolutely worth the short drive on a Friday evening when the weekly market takes over the village square. Producers come from across the Dordogne and Lot-et-Garonne to sell duck confit, walnuts, aged goat's cheese, honey from lavender hives, and strawberries in May that taste like they were picked forty minutes ago — because they were. The village's medieval arcaded streets are intact, the bars are genuinely local rather than tourist-facing, and the restaurant Le Paon Gourmand has been turning out serious regional cooking for years. Castillonnès is ten minutes in the other direction, a smaller but equally well-preserved bastide with its own market and a couple of very good boulangeries.
For those drawn to the wider region, the opportunities expand considerably. Bergerac is the natural hub — around 25 minutes away — with its riverside old town, the Maison des Vins where you can taste through the appellation's output in one sitting, and Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport, which handles direct flights from London Stansted, Birmingham, Southampton, and several other UK and European cities. That airport connection is not a small thing. It means this property functions as a genuine long-weekend destination, not just a summer base. Fly in Thursday evening, drive fifteen minutes through sunflower fields, and you're at the terrace with a cold drink by nightfall.
The Périgord Pourpre is serious cycling country — quiet departmental roads, almost no gradient until you want one, and wine domaines along most routes that don't mind a thirsty cyclist stopping in. The Dropt and Dordogne rivers are both within range for kayaking, and the caves at Lascaux are an hour north if you've never made that trip or want to take someone who hasn't. Sarlat's Saturday market, arguably the finest food market in southwest France, is about 90 minutes in good traffic and worth building a weekend around at least once a season.
The climate here is genuinely warm without the punishing heat of the Côte d'Azur. June through September sees long, reliable days — pool weather from mid-May most years — with September in particular delivering warm afternoons, empty roads, and the beginning of mushroom season in the oak woods nearby. Winters are mild enough that the property works as a year-round retreat for those who want to escape northern European grey without flying south.
For international buyers, the Dordogne has decades of established property ownership by British, Dutch, and Belgian buyers, which means local notaires, estate managers, and letting agents are entirely comfortable navigating transactions with non-French residents. The region has a healthy short-term rental market, particularly for properties with pools and gardens, and a house like this — move-in ready, private, close to Issigeac and Bergerac airport — occupies exactly the sweet spot that holiday rental platforms reward with strong occupancy rates from May through October.
Key features at a glance:
- Three-bedroom single-level house in good, move-in condition
- Open-plan living, dining, and kitchen with wood-burning stove
- Two sets of patio doors opening onto a covered terrace
- 9m x 4m swimming pool with surrounding decking
- Fully enclosed, mature garden with vegetable patch and flower beds
- Large basement with direct garden access and significant conversion potential
- Garage with space for laundry appliances and storage
- Flexible office/additional room adaptable as a nursery or guest space
- Countryside views from the terrace and pool area
- 5 minutes to Issigeac village and weekly market
- 10 minutes to Castillonnès
- 25 minutes to Bergerac Dordogne Périgord Airport
- Established international buyer infrastructure in the area
- Strong short-term rental potential in the Périgord Pourpre market
- Priced at €278,200 including agency fees
Properties at this price point, in this condition, this close to Issigeac, move. The combination of a functioning pool, usable basement, single-level layout, and airport proximity within 25 minutes is not something that comes together often in the same listing. If this matches what you've been looking for in a Dordogne vacation home or second home in France, reach out to the Homestra team now to arrange a viewing — ideally before someone else has that first Sunday morning on the terrace.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 107m²
- Price per m²
- €2,600
- Garden size
- 4301m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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