4-Bed Renovated Stone House with Pool & Garden Near Bergerac, Dordogne



Aquitaine, Dordogne, Queyssac, France, Queyssac (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 160m² Floor area
€435,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
160m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Queyssac. The kitchen window is open, and somewhere down the lane a church bell marks the hour. The smell of coffee drifts through the room while morning light moves slowly across the old stone walls. This is what you came for. Not a hotel lobby, not a resort pool — this. A house that has been standing for generations, renovated with real care, sitting quietly in one of the most quietly spectacular corners of southwest France.
Queyssac is a small village in the Dordogne, tucked between Bergerac and the Périgord Pourpre wine country. It isn't on every tourist map, which is precisely the point. The locals shop Saturday mornings at the Bergerac market on Place de la République, eat confit de canard and walnut tart from the producers who've been showing up there for decades, and drive back through sunflower fields in time for lunch. Bergerac itself is just ten minutes away — close enough to grab a bottle of Monbazillac from a cave coopérative on a Tuesday afternoon, far enough that the hamlet stays genuinely quiet.
This stone house sits in a hamlet setting with complete privacy. A dry stone wall wraps part of the garden, and a landscaped swimming pool sits outside with a terrace in front of the house that catches afternoon sun until well into the evening. There's also a covered courtyard — exactly the kind of shaded outdoor space you spend a lot of time in during July and August, when Dordogne summers run warm and long. A dovecote on the property adds to that particular sense of permanence you find in old Périgord houses, the feeling that the place has its own quiet history before you arrived.
Inside, 160 square metres have been renovated to a genuinely liveable standard. The ground floor opens into a generous living room — flagstone or wide-plank floors typical of the region — anchored by a proper fireplace with a wood-burning stove. This isn't decorative. In October and November, when the vineyards turn rust and copper and the mornings get sharp, that stove earns its place. The sitting room adjoins the main living space and, at 54 square metres combined, creates a ground floor that functions well for families or for entertaining. The kitchen has been recently modernised and is large enough to actually cook in — local markets give you the raw material and this kitchen gives you the space to do something with it: duck breast from the butcher in Issigeac, cepes from the woods in autumn, strawberries from the Dordogne valley in June.
Upstairs, four bedrooms. All described as bright, which in a properly renovated Périgord stone house means good window placement and walls thick enough to keep things naturally cool in summer. There's a full bathroom, a separate shower room, and a dressing room — practical detail that matters when you have a full house. Above that, a large insulated attic with real conversion potential. Whether you want a fifth bedroom, a studio, a library, or a proper home office that overlooks the garden, the bones are there.
The Dordogne needs no hard sell as a destination. Hiking the GR654 through Périgord Noir, canoeing the Vézère between La Roque-Gageac and Beynac, cycling the Voie Verte from Bergerac toward Sainte-Foy-la-Grande — these aren't tourist brochure suggestions, they're what the people who own houses here actually do on long weekends. Bergerac Airport receives regular flights from London, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Brussels, which makes this one of the most accessible second-home markets in the southwest. Drive time from Paris via the A10 and A89 is around five hours. Bordeaux is an hour by car, which puts the Saint-Émilion vineyards, Arcachon Bay, and one of Europe's great restaurant cities all within comfortable day-trip range.
The Dordogne property market has long attracted British, Dutch, and Belgian buyers in particular, and for good reason: strong capital retention, a well-developed rental infrastructure, and consistent demand from summer visitors willing to pay solid weekly rates for a private pool and a proper stone house. A property like this, renovated and move-in ready in an accessible village near Bergerac, represents exactly the combination the rental market responds to. International buyers purchasing in France as non-residents should factor in notaire fees (typically 7-8% on older properties), French capital gains tax structure for non-residents, and the option to hold via an SCI (Société Civile Immobilière) for estate planning purposes — all standard considerations worth discussing with a French notaire early in the process.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms upstairs, plus a ground-floor sitting room convertible to a 5th
- 1 bathroom and 1 separate shower room
- Renovated modern kitchen, large enough for group dining
- Living room with original fireplace and wood-burning stove
- 160 sq m of living space across the main floors
- Large insulated attic with conversion potential
- Private swimming pool in a landscaped garden
- Sun terrace at the front of the house
- Covered courtyard for shaded outdoor living
- Dry stone wall enclosing part of the garden
- Historic dovecote on the property
- Complete privacy in a quiet hamlet setting
- 10 minutes from Bergerac town centre and airport
- Strong vacation rental potential in a high-demand market
- Move-in ready condition throughout
If you've been looking for a holiday home in France that doesn't require you to imagine what it could become — one that's already there, already working, with a pool and a garden and four bedrooms and a kitchen that smells of last night's dinner — this is worth a serious look. Get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property documentation. The Dordogne in summer fills up fast, and so do the good houses.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 160m²
- Price per m²
- €2,719
- Garden size
- 3891m²
- 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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