4-Bed Country House with 4,000m² Garden & Plot Potential – Corrèze Vacation Home



Route de Bernoux 1663, 19500 Chauffour-sur-Vell, France, Chauffour-sur-Vell (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 161m² Floor area
€395,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
161m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning. You're standing on the covered terrace with a coffee, watching mist lift off the Corrèze hills, the silence broken only by birdsong and the distant toll of bells from the village church. The southeast-facing garden is already catching the early sun. This is not a fantasy—it's a Tuesday in July at Route de Bernoux, and it happens to be yours.
Chauffour-sur-Vell sits in one of France's least-discovered corners, and that's exactly the point. The Corrèze département doesn't chase tourists. It doesn't need to. The rolling green hills, the walnut orchards, the limestone villages with their rust-red rooftops—this is the France that most people only read about in novels. And this four-bedroom detached house, set on just over 4,100 square metres of garden, drops you right into the middle of it.
The house itself is solid. Double cavity walls, double glazing, an insulated roof—the bones are there, and the condition is genuinely good. You're not walking into a renovation project that quietly reveals a decade of surprises. At 161 square metres of living space spread across three levels, there's room to breathe, room to host, and room to carve out your own daily rhythms without bumping into anyone else.
Walk in through the entrance hall and you land in the main living room, anchored by an open fireplace. Come November, when the Corrèze rains roll in and the chestnut trees strip bare, that fireplace isn't decorative—it's the reason everyone ends up on that sofa. The adjoining kitchen handles the everyday: meal prep, morning coffee, the chaos of a family breakfast. One bedroom and a bathroom sit on this floor too, which matters if you ever want to host guests or family members who'd rather avoid stairs.
Upstairs, two large bedrooms pull in plenty of natural light and look out over countryside that stays green well into autumn. Both rooms are generous enough that you could partition them if a growing family or a regular crowd of visiting friends demands more sleeping space. Practical flexibility, without the fuss of a structural project.
The lower ground floor is the sleeper hit of this property. A second kitchen, a fourth bedroom, a shower room—the whole level functions independently. Use it as a self-contained guest suite, a workspace, a hobby studio, or a rental unit with its own entrance off the terrace. That terrace, by the way, gets full afternoon sun and looks straight out onto the garden. It's the kind of space where a long lunch quietly becomes a long evening.
The integrated garage fits a car and the usual accumulation of bikes, kayaks, and garden tools that come with rural French life. Parking beyond the garage is ample—no roadside maneuvering, no competition for spaces.
Now, the garden. Four thousand, one hundred and forty-five square metres, facing southeast, with an open character that gives you options rather than obligations. Keep it as a private park. Plant an orchard. Build the pétanque court you've been planning for years. There's also a realistic possibility—subject to local planning permissions—of subdividing the plot to build a second structure. That could be a guest house, an independent holiday rental, or a home for family who want proximity without sharing walls. Worth exploring with the local mairie early in the process.
For everyday life, the nearest village is about three kilometres away and covers the essentials: a large supermarket, a petrol station, a handful of restaurants. Brive-la-Gaillarde, the nearest proper city, is roughly twenty minutes by car and has a full complement of shops, a hospital, a train station with direct TGV connections to Paris in under three hours, and a small regional airport.
The surrounding area rewards anyone who actually uses it. Collonges-la-Rouge, just fifteen minutes east, is one of France's official "Plus Beaux Villages"—an entire village built from deep red sandstone, with a Saturday market that still sells things people actually eat. Turenne, a few kilometres further, has a medieval castle keep you can climb for views across three départements on a clear day. Rocamadour, the extraordinary cliff-face pilgrimage town, is about forty-five minutes south and worth the drive in any season. The Dordogne River—fifteen kilometres away—offers canoeing, kayaking, and swimming at spots that haven't made it onto any influencer's feed yet.
Spring in the Corrèze arrives slowly and smells like it. Wild garlic carpets the forest floors around April, and the markets in Brive fill with asparagus, strawberries, and the first walnuts of the season. Summer is warm rather than punishing—highs in the upper twenties, long evenings, the kind of heat that makes outdoor dining feel mandatory rather than optional. Autumn is arguably the best season: the forests go amber and copper, mushroom season kicks off (cèpes, chanterelles, trompettes de la mort if you know where to look), and the Brive food festival in early November draws serious eaters from across France. Winter is quiet and genuine—frost on the garden, smoke from chimneys, and the fireplace in the living room doing its best work.
Accessibility is more straightforward than the rural setting suggests. Brive–Vallée de la Dordogne Airport handles direct flights to Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Toulouse Airport is roughly two hours south. Bordeaux is two and a half hours by car, Lyon under three. Paris by TGV from Brive takes around two hours and forty minutes. For international buyers driving from the Netherlands or Belgium, the journey is long but manageable with an overnight stop—and once you've done it once, you start planning the next trip before you've unpacked.
As a holiday property in France, this house qualifies for the standard non-resident ownership structure under French law, and rental income is taxable in France under the micro-BIC regime or real régime depending on your situation. A local notaire will walk you through the purchase process, which is transparent and well-regulated. The energy label is E, which is honest and increasingly common in rural French stock—and worth noting when budgeting for any future efficiency upgrades.
Key features:
4 bedrooms across three levels, including one on the ground floor and one in the lower-ground suite
2 full bathrooms (one per main level, plus the independent lower-ground shower room)
161 m² of living space on a 4,145 m² southeast-facing plot
Fully independent lower-ground floor with second kitchen, bedroom, shower room, and terrace access
Open fireplace in main living room
Covered outdoor terrace ideal for outdoor dining and warm-season living
Integrated single garage plus extensive additional parking
Double cavity walls, double glazing, insulated roof for year-round comfort
Plot subdivision potential for second dwelling, subject to planning approval
3 km to nearest village with supermarket, restaurants, and fuel
15 km to the Dordogne River for canoeing, swimming, and kayaking
20 minutes to Brive-la-Gaillarde (TGV station, hospital, full amenities)
Direct TGV connection from Brive to Paris in under 3 hours
Regional airport at Brive with international connections
Priced at €395,000 in good, move-in-ready condition
This is a property that works on multiple levels—literally and practically. It's a proper family holiday home with the space to host everyone at once. It's a potential income asset, with a self-contained lower floor that could generate rental revenue during the weeks you're not there. And it's a foothold in a part of France that remains genuinely authentic, where the Sunday market in Collonges still sells the same charcuterie from the same producer it has for thirty years.
Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full property dossier. The calendar for summer visits fills faster than you'd expect—and once you've stood on that terrace in the morning sun, the decision tends to make itself.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 161m²
- Price per m²
- €2,453
- Garden size
- 4145m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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