4-Bed Maison de Maître with Pool in Pleuville, Charente – Village Holiday Home



Poitou-Charentes, Charente, Pleuville, France, Pleuville (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 193m² Floor area
€199,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
193m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Pleuville moves at its own pace. The shutters creak open, the coffee's on, and through the kitchen window you catch that wide roll of Charente countryside—fields fading into tree lines, not another rooftop in sight. This is what 193 square metres of genuine Maison de Maître feels like when it's yours.
Set right in the heart of the village, this four-bedroom house carries all the bones that make old French architecture so satisfying: generous proportions, solid stone, rooms that breathe. But it's been updated where it counts. The kitchen was fitted last year—clean, functional, properly equipped for the long lunches that Charente life demands. A new 7 x 5 metre inground swimming pool was also installed last year, sitting just outside where the garden opens up and the views stretch away over the surrounding countryside. On a hot July afternoon, that pool earns its place fast.
Inside, the layout flows well. A wide hallway sets the tone as you enter—the kind of entrance that makes guests pause. To the right, the new kitchen leads into a utility room, and there's a shower room with WC on the same side, which makes practical sense for a house that sees wet dogs, muddy boots, or kids coming in from the pool. To the left, the dining room and living room run together in an open plan arrangement, giving you a generous shared space that works for family dinners, lazy evenings, and everything in between. Upstairs, four well-sized bedrooms line up comfortably—room for the whole family, or the friends who always seem to arrive for August—alongside a bathroom with WC.
Outside is where this property really delivers. The garden wraps around the house on multiple sides, so you're never short of options: a spot in full sun by the pool, or a shaded corner when the afternoon gets serious. The garage is tucked in too, doubling as housing for the pool pump, which keeps things tidy and practical. The overall condition is good throughout—this is a house you can move into and enjoy immediately, without a renovation project eating your first summer.
Pleuville itself sits in the rolling, unhurried countryside of the Charente département, part of the broader Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It's a real village—not a tourist simulation of one. There's a bar-restaurant in the village, which matters more than it sounds when you're three weeks in and want a cold Pastis without getting in the car. But you're also just 10 kilometres from Charroux, one of the most rewarding small towns in the region. Charroux carries the label of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France, and it earns it: medieval ramparts, an abbey with a genuinely odd and fascinating history, artisan cheese makers, and a market that gets taken seriously by the locals who drive in from surrounding communes. The Charroux mustard and walnut oil producers alone are worth the trip.
Confolens is 17 kilometres away and brings a different energy. Every August it hosts the Festival International de Folklore de Confolens, one of the oldest folk festivals in France, drawing performers from across four continents into the streets along the Vienne river. It's colourful, loud in the best way, and completely unlike anything you'd stumble into in Paris. The town also has good shops, restaurants, and a covered market—your practical base for weekly supplies when village life calls for reinforcement.
The Charente climate is one of the region's quiet advantages. Summers run warm and long, with July and August regularly hitting 28 to 32 degrees—pool weather, genuinely, not just optimistic-brochure weather. Spring arrives early and gently. Winters are mild by northern European standards, which matters if you plan on extending your stays into October or arriving in April. Compared to the Atlantic coast an hour west, you get more sunshine and less coastal wind. It's an agricultural landscape and it smells like one in the best sense: cut grass, warm earth, the faint sweetness of sunflowers in August.
For buyers coming from the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, or further afield, the practical picture here is encouraging. Limoges airport is roughly an hour's drive north and handles regular flights from London Stansted and other UK regional airports. Poitiers-Biard is a similar distance and serves additional routes. Drive from Calais via the A10 and you're looking at around six to seven hours—manageable as an annual migration with the car loaded.
The Charente property market has remained accessible compared to the more hyped corners of France. At €199,000 for a four-bedroom village house in good condition with a new pool, this represents straightforward value in a region where buyers regularly find themselves getting far more than they expected for their budget. Rental potential is real too—four bedrooms, a pool, and a village location tick the boxes that French rural holiday rental platforms look for, with summer demand consistently strong in this part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
For international buyers, France operates a transparent purchase process through a notaire, with ownership costs and legal protections that are well-established and understood. Non-EU buyers face no restrictions on purchasing residential property in France. The total acquisition cost, including notaire fees, typically runs around 7 to 8 percent on top of the purchase price for existing properties—worth factoring into your planning from the start.
Key features at a glance:
- Four bedrooms upstairs, all well-proportioned
- Two bathrooms (shower room with WC on ground floor, bathroom with WC upstairs)
- New kitchen installed last year
- New 7 x 5 metre inground swimming pool installed last year
- Open plan dining and living room on ground floor
- Utility room on ground floor
- Garden wrapping around the entire house
- Garage with pool pump housing
- Wide countryside views from the pool and garden
- Located in the centre of Pleuville village
- Bar-restaurant in the village
- 10km from Charroux (Les Plus Beaux Villages de France)
- 17km from Confolens (Festival International de Folklore)
- Approximately 1 hour from Limoges airport
- Move-in ready condition throughout
If you've been watching the French property market and wondering when to move, a house like this—good size, good condition, new pool, real village, honest price—doesn't sit around waiting. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property details. The Charente is at its best in person, and so is this house.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 193m²
- Price per m²
- €1,031
- Garden size
- 2390m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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