4-Bed Architect-Designed 1970s House with Pool & Park Gardens near Villeneuve-sur-Lot



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France, Villeneuve-sur-Lot (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 173m² Floor area
€229,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
173m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a Sunday morning in southwest France, this is what you wake up to: birdsong filtering through mature oak canopy, the faint smell of dew on old stonework, and the kind of silence that cities charge a premium to escape. Step out onto the balcony off the main bedroom, coffee in hand, and you're looking across more than half a hectare of private park-like gardens that feel entirely your own. No neighbors visible. No road noise. Just the trees, the pool glinting in the early light, and the slow rhythm of Lot-et-Garonne life beginning to stir.
This is a house with a genuine story. Built in the 1970s to the design of an architect — someone who clearly cared about proportion, natural light, and character — it has been owned by one family since the day it was completed. That alone says something. Properties like this rarely surface on the market in this corner of Aquitaine, and when they do, they don't stay long.
Walk through the gated entrance and the house reveals itself gradually, framed by specimen trees that have had decades to reach their full, impressive height. The façade has a quiet confidence about it — nothing showy, just solid mid-century lines that hold up exceptionally well. Inside, the living room is the heart of everything: generous in scale, with a working fireplace anchoring one wall, a mezzanine gallery adding vertical drama, and light coming in from multiple directions. The parquet floors throughout have the warmth that only real wood develops over time — no laminate shortcut here. Exposed stonework and original plaster cornices add layers of detail that would cost a fortune to replicate today.
The four bedrooms are arranged sensibly for a family or for hosting guests across the seasons. One opens onto a private balcony — that morning coffee spot — and another includes a dedicated dressing room. The fitted kitchen is functional and ready to use while you plan any updates. Double glazing and oil-fired central heating mean the property works year-round, not just as a summer escape. A large underground garage handles parking with ease, and the additional structures outside — a workshop, storage room, open carport, and a cluster of small outbuildings — give you real flexibility. Convert one into a studio, another into a home office, use the third for guests. The bones are there; the vision is yours.
The 10m x 4m swimming pool sits within the garden in a spot that catches sun from mid-morning well into the evening. Surrounded by that remarkable collection of mature trees, it has the feel of a private estate rather than a suburban back garden. The privacy is genuine and complete — this is not the kind of pool you feel observed in.
Now, the location. Villeneuve-sur-Lot sits along the Lot river, a proper working French market town rather than a tourist set piece. The Saturday market on Place Lafayette is the real deal — local farmers selling Marmande tomatoes, Agen prunes, foie gras from farms you can actually visit, and cheeses that don't have English labels. Spend a morning there and you'll understand immediately why people move here from Paris, London, and Amsterdam and never go back.
The surrounding area is Lot-et-Garonne at its most satisfying. Fifteen minutes in the car puts you in Monflanquin, one of the best-preserved bastide towns in France — the medieval grid streets, the central arcaded square, the views over rolling Périgord countryside. Drive another twenty minutes east and you're into the Dordogne proper, navigating between Biron, Bonaguil, and Gavaudun, three castles that between them span about six centuries of French history. The Lot river valley offers serious cycling — the Lot Valley Greenway trail runs for kilometers along the old towpath — and the region's network of marked walking routes through oak forest and vineyard covers hundreds of kilometers.
Wine is unavoidable, and you won't mind. Cahors is under an hour away, home to the tannic Malbec that made the region's reputation. Buzet, practically on the doorstep, produces reds that pair naturally with the duck confit and magret you'll be cooking through the winter months. The Duras appellation sits just to the west. You'll find yourself learning the terrain through the bottles rather than the other way around.
Getting here and getting away is straightforward. Bergerac airport, served by multiple budget carriers from the UK and across northern Europe, is 45 minutes by car. Bordeaux-Mérignac — with its far wider range of international connections — is around 90 minutes on the A62. For rail connections into the national network, Agen station (about 30 minutes) links directly to Bordeaux and onward to Paris Montparnasse in around three hours total.
The climate earns its reputation. Long summers with reliable heat, mild autumns that stretch deep into October with the light turning golden over the vines, and winters that are cold enough to justify the fireplace but rarely brutal. Spring arrives genuinely early here — by March the orchards along the Lot valley are already in blossom.
For international buyers considering southwest France as a holiday home market or second residence investment, Lot-et-Garonne consistently delivers better value per square meter than the Dordogne to the north or the Gironde to the west, while sharing much of the same landscape and lifestyle appeal. At 229,000 euros for 173 square meters of architect-designed space on half a hectare with a pool, this property sits at a price point that reflects the refreshing and updating it needs — not a penalty, but an opportunity to put your own mark on something with genuine architectural merit.
Key features at a glance:
- Architect-designed 1970s house on the market for the first time since construction
- 4 bedrooms including one with private balcony and one with dressing room
- Bright living room with working fireplace and mezzanine gallery
- Original parquet floors, exposed stonework, plaster cornices throughout
- 10m x 4m swimming pool in private, mature garden setting
- Over 0.5 hectares of park-like grounds with specimen trees
- Large underground garage plus additional workshop and storage
- Open carport and several outbuildings with conversion potential
- Double glazing and oil-fired central heating
- 5 minutes from Villeneuve-sur-Lot town center and weekly markets
- 15 minutes from the bastide town of Monflanquin
- 45 minutes from Bergerac Airport, 90 minutes from Bordeaux
- Priced to reflect update potential — strong investment upside
- Completely private setting with no visible neighbors
Properties with this combination of architectural character, land, a pool, and first-time-to-market provenance simply do not come up often in this part of France. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing — this is the kind of house that makes a great deal more sense the moment you stand inside it.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 173m²
- Price per m²
- €1,324
- Garden size
- 5074m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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