4-Bed French Farmhouse with 4.7 Hectares, Carp Lake & Bread Oven in Haute-Vienne



Limousin, Haute-Vienne, Lussac-les-Églises, France, Lussac-les-Églises (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 238m² Floor area
€249,100
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
238m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still April morning in Lussac-les-Églises, the fields around this old stone farmhouse turn into something you'd struggle to describe to someone who hasn't seen it themselves. Wild orchids push up through the grass in clusters, the kind of thing you read about in nature guides but rarely actually stumble upon. Swallows cut low over the carp lake. The only sound from inside the kitchen is the creak of a wooden beam settling in the warmth. This is what 4.7 hectares of organically managed Limousin countryside looks like when no one's been rushing it.
This is a four-bedroom house in genuinely good condition, sitting on land that's been farmed without chemicals for fifteen years, with a small carp lake, maintained paddocks, a polytunnel, and a converted bread oven that serves as one of the most characterful ground-floor bedrooms you're likely to find anywhere in rural France. At 238 square metres, it has enough room to breathe — and enough quirks to make it feel like somewhere, not just somewhere else.
The entrance hallway sets the tone immediately. Original encaustic floor tiles run the full length from front door to back, the kind that would cost a fortune to source and lay today. To the right, the living and dining room opens up around a proper fireplace fitted with a wood-burning stove, with exposed timber beams overhead that have been doing their job for well over a century. This is a room for long winter evenings, for board games with the grandchildren, for the specific kind of quiet that only deep countryside delivers.
Then comes the bread oven room. Fully restored, converted into a ground-floor bedroom, and genuinely unlike anything else in a comparable property. The curved stonework has been kept intact. It's compact, yes, but it's the room guests will talk about for years. The fully fitted kitchen and breakfast room sits to the left of the hallway, practical and well-equipped, opening onto the kind of morning light that makes you want to linger over coffee far longer than planned. A large shower room and separate WC complete the ground floor — an arrangement that means the whole lower level could function as self-contained living quarters. For multi-generational families, or for owners who'd rather avoid stairs as the decades pass, this layout is quietly thoughtful in a way that many rural French properties simply aren't.
Upstairs, three generous double bedrooms are reached via an open mezzanine landing lit by Velux windows. It's the kind of landing that naturally collects bookshelves, a reading chair, a desk in the corner. It has that quality of being neither one room nor another, which means it can be whatever the household needs it to be. A family bathroom with full bath, basin and WC serves the upper floor.
Attached to the main house is a laundry room and a stone barn — dry, solid, full of potential for anyone with a project in mind, whether that's a workshop, studio, additional accommodation subject to planning, or simple storage for the kind of equipment a working smallholding accumulates. Out in the fields, the polytunnel currently shelters horses and feed. A wooden field shelter sits alongside it. The paddocks have been managed in rotation, rested properly, fenced well. For an equestrian buyer, this land is ready to go. For a market gardener, the fifteen years of organic management means the soil has had time to recover and rebuild — a serious head start.
The carp lake deserves its own mention. It's a small one, but it anchors the property in a particular way. Sit beside it on a summer evening with a glass of something cold and the light going gold across the water, and the question of whether you made the right decision answers itself.
Lussac-les-Églises is less than five minutes away by car — a proper small French village with a supermarket, bakery, pharmacy, and bar. All the essentials without the tourist overlay. For a wider range of shops, restaurants, and services, Bellac is around thirty minutes, as are Magnac-Laval and La Souterraine. The medieval town of Limoges, the regional capital of Haute-Vienne, is roughly an hour's drive and has an international airport with connections to the UK and across Europe, making this more accessible than it might first appear on a map. Poitiers is also within reach for high-speed TGV connections to Paris.
The Limousin region doesn't shout about itself, which is part of the appeal. It's been quietly attracting a certain type of buyer — people who want actual countryside rather than a postcard version of it, who want hiking trails through chestnut forest rather than tourist-facing walking routes, who want to know their baker by name. The Vallée de la Creuse and the natural park of Millevaches are within comfortable driving distance for day trips. The area around Lussac-les-Églises has good riding tracks in every direction, with no neighbours close enough to overlook the property. In twenty years of searching, some buyers never find something this private that isn't also falling apart.
The property is priced at €249,100 including agency fees. For international buyers, France has a well-established legal framework for non-resident property ownership, and the notarial system provides transparent, protected transaction processes. The region sits outside the most competitive French property markets, which means values here have held steady without the speculative pressure found closer to major cities or the Atlantic coast. Rental income potential is real — rural Limousin attracts growing numbers of visitors seeking slow-travel and nature-based holidays, and a property with equestrian facilities, a lake, and organic land has genuine niche appeal in that market.
Key features at a glance:
Four bedrooms including a uniquely converted ground-floor bread oven room
Two bathrooms plus separate WC on ground floor
238 square metres of living space in good condition
4.7 hectares of organically managed land (15 years chemical-free)
Paddocks in rotation, well-fenced and livestock-ready
Small carp lake on the property
Polytunnel and wooden field shelter for equestrian use
Attached stone barn and laundry room
Original encaustic tiled hallway and exposed timber beams
Wood-burning stove in characterful living and dining room
Open mezzanine landing ideal for home office or library
No overlooking neighbours, surrounded by working farmland
Five minutes to Lussac-les-Églises village amenities
Approximately one hour to Limoges International Airport
Priced at €249,100 including agency fees (€235,000 excluding)
If you've been looking for a second home in rural France that has real land, real character, and real quiet — and you haven't found it yet — this is worth a serious look. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full property details. Properties with this combination of organic land, equestrian infrastructure, and authentic Limousin architecture at this price point don't stay available for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 238m²
- Price per m²
- €1,047
- Garden size
- 8903m²
- 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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