3-Bed Stone House & Barn in Haute-Vienne, Limousin — Second Home with Forest & Orchard



Limousin, Haute-Vienne, Domps, France, Domps (France)
3 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 176m² Floor area
€259,950
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
176m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still morning in early October, you walk out of the kitchen door onto the south-facing terrace with a bowl of coffee, and you realize you can hear absolutely nothing. No traffic. No sirens. Just the faint rustle of chestnut trees down the slope and, somewhere far off, a woodpigeon. Below you, the grounds roll away toward a private forest where cepes and chanterelles push through the leaf litter after autumn rain. The fruit trees — hazelnut, plum, cherry, pear, apple, grape, even an olive — are heavy at this time of year. This is what €259,950 looks like in the Haute-Vienne.
This three-hundred-year-old stone cottage and its attached barn in Domps have been painstakingly transformed over two decades into a warm, practical, deeply liveable home. It's 176 square metres of honest rural architecture — exposed stone walls, original timber beams, thick window reveals — brought properly up to date. New roof. Re-done plumbing and electrics to current French norms. Double glazing throughout. Fibre internet. The bones are ancient; everything that matters is sound.
Step inside and the kitchen sets the tone immediately. At 41 square metres, it's a serious room — big enough for a long farmhouse table and still have space to breathe. The centrepiece is an original fireplace now housing a pellet burner that quietly heats the majority of the house. This is the room where the house lives. Coffee in the morning light. Wine before dinner. Guests drifting in from the terrace. Adjoining it, a generous living room with a separate dining area pushes another 41 square metres and opens via French doors onto the front of the property. Its Godin wood-burning stove runs almost for free, given what's standing in your forest. A separate office or library sits off this floor too, along with a ground-floor shower room with WC and heated towel rail — useful if you're ever thinking about chambres d'hôtes.
Upstairs, three large double bedrooms each have their own en-suite. The master runs to 33 square metres with a corner jacuzzi bath, WC and twin heated towel rails — the kind of setup that turns a tired Sunday evening into something restorative. The second bedroom has a full shower room; the third, at 18 square metres, just needs its bathroom finished — a straightforward project that adds immediate value. The layout already works well for letting rooms or hosting extended family, and the barn conversion space downstairs gives further options: extra accommodation, a studio, storage, a workshop. There's a large carport to the side that fits two cars plus equipment, and a separate parking area for visitors.
Domps sits in the Haute-Vienne, in the green heart of Limousin — a region the French largely keep to themselves, which is precisely why it still feels real. The nearby market town of Eymoutiers, 13 kilometres away, has a proper weekly market, decent restaurants and a train station with direct services to Limoges and, from there, Paris in around three hours. Chamberet in Corrèze is about 12 kilometres on foot — a proper day-walk through Limousin countryside if you have a dog and no particular schedule. Driving, it's ten minutes.
Limoges, about an hour north, is a proper city: the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the covered market on the Place de la Motte, the medieval Cité quarter with its Gothic cathedral, and Limoges-Bellegarde International Airport with regular connections to the UK and beyond. Brive-la-Gaillarde, roughly the same distance south, has its own airport and an outstanding market tradition — the Marché de Noël in December draws people from across the southwest. Both cities have the kind of shopping and services that make running a French property from abroad genuinely manageable.
The land around the house is practical in ways that feel almost old-fashioned. A water well on the property. A forest large enough to supply firewood indefinitely. Ground suitable for a vegetable garden and a few animals if you want them. There's even space marked out for a swimming pool. The fosse septique is up to norms. You could, quite realistically, run this place at very low day-to-day cost — the pellet burner, the wood stove, the well, the orchard. Or you could simply enjoy the self-sufficiency as atmosphere without needing to act on it.
For international buyers, Limousin has been quietly attracting British, Dutch and Belgian second-home owners for thirty years, and property values here have remained more grounded than in the Dordogne or Provence. The legal framework for foreign ownership in France is well-established, and the notaire system provides clear title and transparent transaction costs. Rental potential through chambres d'hôtes or gîte operation is entirely viable with this layout — three en-suite bedrooms and independent ground-floor access make the administration straightforward.
Key features at a glance:
- 300-year-old stone cottage and barn, now one connected building totalling 176m²
- 3 double bedrooms, all with en-suite bathrooms
- 41m² kitchen with pellet burner fireplace as main heating source
- Second 41m² living and dining room with Godin wood burner
- Ground-floor office/library and WC with shower room
- Large workshop, storage and laundry in the barn underfloor space
- Double carport plus separate visitor parking area
- Private orchard: hazelnut, chestnut, apple, pear, plum, cherry, grape and olive
- Private forest with wild mushrooms (ceps, chanterelles, morels)
- Water well on the property
- New roof, plumbing and electrics to French norms; double glazing; fibre internet
- Fosse septique compliant
- Space designated for a swimming pool
- 10 minutes to Chamberet, 13km to Eymoutiers (train to Limoges/Paris), 1 hour to Limoges and Brive international airports
If you've been looking for a vacation home in France that actually has land, privacy and a real sense of place — not a holiday cottage in a development — this is worth serious attention. Properties in this condition, with this much land and this many practical features, at this price point in Haute-Vienne, don't stay available for long. Get in touch with Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request the full property dossier. The terrace is south-facing. The coffee tastes better out there. Come and see for yourself.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 176m²
- Price per m²
- €1,477
- Garden size
- 4102m²
- 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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