4-Bed Renovated House with Barn & 1.7 Hectares Near Nontron, Périgord Vert



France, Civray (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 120m² Floor area
€154,500
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
120m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The kitchen window faces east, and on a clear morning in the Périgord Vert you get the light before the rest of the house does. Stand at the sink with a coffee, and through the glass you're looking out over nearly two hectares of your own land — meadow rolling gently toward an oak grove on the far side of the lane. Church bells from a neighbouring village drift over occasionally. That's the opening scene of daily life at this four-bedroom farmhouse on the edge of a tiny cul-de-sac hamlet between Mareuil and Nontron, and it sets the tone for everything else.
At 154,500 euros, this is the kind of French country property that doesn't stay on the market long — and for good reason.
The house itself has been thoroughly renovated and sits in excellent condition, with 120 square metres of living space and a total floor area of 180 square metres. Nothing here needs tearing apart or starting over. Move in, unpack, and start living. The 38-square-metre living room is the heart of it: original hardwood floors that creak in exactly the right way, walls that have absorbed a century of winters and summers, enough space for a generous sofa arrangement and a dining table that seats eight without anyone knocking elbows. There's a real generosity to the proportions here that photographs don't fully capture — you have to stand in the room to feel it.
The kitchen runs to 23 square metres, which is significant. In a French rural property this size, a kitchen that large is not accidental — it's a statement of priorities. It's a room designed for slow Sunday lunches that drift into the late afternoon, for friends crowding around while someone makes a walnut tart, for the kind of cooking that takes time and company. The Périgord Vert is truffle country, foie gras country, walnut oil country. The local markets at Nontron (a fifteen-minute drive) and Brantôme (about forty minutes south) fill up every week with producers selling directly — duck confit, aged chèvre, wild mushrooms in autumn, strawberries in early summer. Having a proper kitchen isn't a luxury here, it's the whole point.
Four bedrooms, with one conveniently situated on the ground floor — useful for guests who'd rather avoid stairs, or as a home office during the working week if you're splitting time between France and elsewhere. The bathroom and shower room are combined, with a separate WC, which covers all practical bases. There's also cellar space tucked beneath — useful for wine storage, which in this region feels less like an amenity and more like a necessity.
Then there's the barn.
210 square metres of it. That's not a shed or a lean-to — it's a serious outbuilding with real potential. Some buyers will use it for storage, parking, and keeping the tools that come with managing 16,800 square metres of land. Others will look at it and start sketching floor plans. Subject to local planning permissions with the Mairie de Mareuil or the Direction Départementale des Territoires in Dordogne, a barn of this scale could become a guest cottage, a workshop, a studio, or additional accommodation — the kind of conversion that adds both personal value and rental appeal. The Périgord sees strong gîte rental demand through the summer months, particularly from British, Dutch, and Belgian visitors who return year after year to the same corner of southwest France.
The land itself divides into two parcels: 7,350 square metres of adjoining meadow wrapping around the house, mostly given over to grass and the quiet industry of wildflowers and insects in summer, and then across the lane, a separate section of oak grove — roughly another 9,450 square metres of timber, shade, and foraging potential. Cèpes and chanterelles appear under the oaks in a good autumn. Deer move through at dusk.
Location matters enormously here. Civray sits within the broader Charente department, but this property sits close to the Dordogne border — the local geography is Périgord Vert, the northernmost and greenest of the four Périgord regions, and often the least overrun with tourists compared to the Périgord Noir around Les Eyzies and Sarlat. That's not a drawback — it's precisely the appeal. You get the rivers (the Dronne is minutes away), the medieval villages, the hiking trails through the Parc Naturel Régional Périgord-Limousin, and the deep rural quiet, without the summer crowds that can make the Dordogne Valley feel like a theme park in August.
Nontron is your closest market town — a real working French community with a Tuesday and Saturday market, a covered market hall, butchers, bakers, and the kind of café where the same men have been drinking their morning café serré at the same table for twenty years. There's also a well-regarded knife-making tradition in Nontron — the Nontron jackknife has been produced here since at least the 15th century, and the local museum around it is genuinely worth an afternoon. Brantôme, sometimes called the Venice of Périgord for its river setting and abbey, is a longer drive but a regular outing — particularly on a Friday market morning.
For outdoor life, the options spread out in every direction. The GR 36 long-distance trail passes through the area, and there are dozens of shorter marked circuits through forest and farmland. Canoeing on the Dronne is a summer staple — you can hire boats at Brantôme and drift back downstream. Fishing licenses on the local rivers are easy to obtain. In winter, the countryside turns a particular shade of copper and grey that painters have been coming here to capture for a long time.
Access is practical. Périgueux, the departmental capital with its Roman ruins and excellent weekend market on the Place de la Clautre, is about an hour by car. Limoges Airport, with direct routes to London Stansted, Paris, and several other European hubs, is roughly 90 minutes north. Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is under two hours south, opening up far more international connections. The TGV from Angoulême reaches Paris in two hours.
For international buyers, France has a well-established legal framework for property purchase. A notaire handles the conveyancing, and the process — from signing the compromis de vente to completion — typically takes two to three months. EU and non-EU buyers alike can purchase without restriction. If rental income is your interest, gîte operators in this part of France regularly achieve occupancy through July and August, with shoulder season growing year on year as remote working continues to reshape how people use second homes.
Key features at a glance:
- Four bedrooms, one on the ground floor
- 120 sqm of living space, 180 sqm total floor area
- Fully renovated, move-in condition
- 38 sqm living room with original hardwood floors
- 23 sqm country kitchen
- Bathroom/shower room and separate WC
- Cellar storage
- 210 sqm barn with conversion potential
- 16,800 sqm of land in two parcels
- 7,350 sqm adjoining meadow
- Oak grove across the lane (~9,450 sqm)
- Quiet cul-de-sac hamlet setting
- 15 minutes from Nontron, 40 minutes from Brantôme
- 90 minutes to Limoges Airport, under 2 hours to Bordeaux
This is a property that asks something of you — it wants to be lived in, walked around, used. The barn wants a purpose. The meadow wants children or animals or both. The kitchen wants long dinners. If you've been looking for a genuine piece of the French southwest — not a holiday park apartment, not a manicured Luberon villa, but a solid, rooted house with real land and real character — this is worth a serious look.
Get in touch with the team at Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request the full property dossier, including the diagnostic reports and land registry details. Properties at this price point and condition level in the Périgord Vert move quickly, and this one won't wait.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 120m²
- Price per m²
- €1,288
- Garden size
- 16800m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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