3-Bed Stone Farmhouse Near Lauzerte with Pool & Village Views – Second Home in SW France



Midi-Pyrénées, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lauzerte, France, Lauzerte (France)
3 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 230m² Floor area
€515,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
230m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still Tuesday morning in the Quercy Blanc, the kind where the mist sits low over the valleys and slowly burns off by nine, you can stand on the wisteria-draped terrace of this 1880s stone farmhouse and watch Lauzerte materialize above you on its hilltop like something from a medieval illustration. The bells from the village church drift down. A rooster somewhere across the lane. Then silence, proper silence, the kind cities charge a premium to simulate.
This is what 515,000 euros buys you here: not just 230 square metres of meticulously renovated stone and timber, but a completely different pace of life, tucked into one of France's most quietly celebrated corners.
The property started life as a duck farm—canard, naturally, this being Tarn-et-Garonne—and the bones of that agricultural past still give the place its character. Stone walls half a metre thick keep the interior cool through the height of a Quercy summer without any help from the air conditioning. Original ceiling beams, darkened by a century and a half of cooking fires, run the length of the main living room, where a substantial fireplace fitted with a wood-burning stove becomes the social centre of the house from October through March. The fitted kitchen is properly equipped with integrated appliances, but the tiled floors and exposed stone walls make sure it doesn't feel clinical. This is a house where you actually want to cook, and given that Lauzerte sits at the heart of foie gras, cassoulet, and Cahors black wine country, that instinct will be well rewarded.
The layout across three bedrooms and three bathrooms gives visiting family or friends their own space and dignity. The master suite has an en-suite bathroom and a dressing room—not an afterthought, but a proper fitted space—while the original staircase connecting the floors is one of those period details that stops people mid-step to simply appreciate it. Up above, a generous attic runs the full footprint of the roof and represents real potential: additional guest accommodation, a studio, a study with views in every direction. The current owners haven't needed it, but the structural bones are already there.
Outside, about a hectare of landscaped gardens surrounds the house with mature trees that took decades to reach their current spread. The swimming pool, covered electrically when not in use and bordered by a wooden deck, is the obvious centrepiece of summer afternoons here. But it's the pétanque court beside it that tends to actually keep people outside the longest—something about the rhythm of the game against the backdrop of the valley below. The wisteria-covered metal terrace, its patina earned over years rather than applied artificially, catches the evening light in a way that makes dinner out there feel almost ceremonial. Several stone barns and outbuildings dot the property, offering storage at minimum and—depending on how ambitious you feel—workshop space, a guest annexe, or some future project that hasn't suggested itself yet.
Lauzerte itself is a ten-minute walk up the lane, which means you can be at the Saturday morning market filling a basket with Chasselas grapes from Moissac, local chevre, and Agen prunes before the village has fully woken up. Officially classed among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France—a designation that comes with genuine criteria, not just marketing—the village draws visitors who appreciate its 12th-century ramparts, the Place des Cornières arcade square, and a cultural calendar that punches significantly above its 800-resident weight. Summer evenings bring jazz in the square, open-air theatre, and rotating art exhibitions in the old priory. The Chemin de Saint-Jacques passes directly through, bringing a steady stream of pilgrims walking the GR65 route to Santiago de Compostela, which gives the place an unusual cosmopolitan energy for something so small.
The surrounding Quercy Blanc landscape—white limestone ridges, sunflower fields, gorges carved by the Célé and the Lot rivers—draws serious walkers and cyclists from April through November. The Gorges de l'Aveyron are under an hour's drive. Puy-l'Évêque and its concentrated stretch of Cahors Malbec vineyards are forty minutes west. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is just over an hour away, making weekend visits viable and the logistics of international ownership manageable without heroic planning.
Climatically, the region earns its reputation. Summers run long and dry, reliably warm from June through September with occasional proper heat in July and August. Spring comes early here, the hillsides going green by March. Winters are mild enough that the house, kept ticking over with oil-fired central heating, can realistically be used year-round.
For international buyers, France offers relatively straightforward property purchase procedures for EU and non-EU nationals alike, with notarial oversight providing strong legal protections. The Tarn-et-Garonne market for quality stone properties in classified villages has remained resilient, partly because supply is genuinely limited—they're not building more 1880s farmhouses—and partly because demand from northern European buyers continues steadily. Short-term rental yield in this corridor, particularly during the May-to-September season, is a realistic supplementary income stream for owners who aren't in residence full-time.
The property is in excellent overall condition, the result of a renovation carried out with evident care for what was already there rather than against it.
Key features at a glance:
- 230 sqm of living space across a fully renovated 1880s stone farmhouse
- 3 bedrooms including a master suite with en-suite bathroom and dressing room
- 3 bathrooms in total
- High-quality swimming pool with electric cover and wooden sun deck
- Wisteria-covered terrace purpose-built for outdoor dining
- Traditional pétanque court
- Exposed stone walls, original ceiling beams, and period staircase throughout
- Elegant fitted kitchen with integrated appliances
- Central fireplace with wood-burning stove
- Large convertible attic with expansion potential
- Oil-fired central heating
- Multiple stone barns and outbuildings for storage or development
- Approximately one hectare of landscaped gardens with mature trees
- Direct views of Lauzerte, classified among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France
- 1 hour from Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport
If this feels like the property you've been trying to describe to yourself, reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing. The terrace is best experienced in person, preferably with a glass of Cahors in hand, before the evening light leaves the valley.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 230m²
- Price per m²
- €2,239
- Garden size
- 11170m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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