4-Bed Riverside House in Normandy's Eure Valley – Second Home 1hr from Paris



Normandy, Eure, St-Cyr-la-Campagne, France, Saint-Cyr-la-Campagne (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 144m² Floor area
€235,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
144m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still morning in Saint-Cyr-la-Campagne, you'd wake to the sound of water. Not distant or muffled — the river runs right along the edge of the property, close enough that you hear it through an open window while the coffee brews. There's no road noise, no neighbors peering over the fence, no reason whatsoever to be anywhere else. This is rural Normandy at its most honest: green, quiet, and completely unhurried.
The house itself was built in the 1980s, solid and unpretentious, sitting on a fully enclosed and wooded 1,000-square-metre plot that feels twice as large thanks to the riverbank it borders. Since 2021, the owners have been steadily bringing it up to speed — new electrics throughout, a fitted kitchen, a redesigned bathroom with a proper walk-in shower and bathtub, and freshly renovated upstairs bedrooms completed in 2025. The bones were always good. Now the finishing is catching up.
Come through the front door and the ground floor opens into a living room that immediately earns its keep. Terracotta floor tiles run underfoot — the warm, slightly uneven kind that makes a room feel lived-in rather than showroom-perfect — and a wood-burning stove anchors one wall. On a grey October afternoon, when the Normandy rain comes in sideways and the leaves on the riverbank go copper and gold, this room becomes the entire reason you bought a house in France. The kitchen adjoins it directly, recently fitted and fully equipped, functional without being clinical. A hallway off the living area leads to a ground-floor bedroom with its own dressing room — a practical touch that works well as a guest room or for anyone who'd rather avoid stairs entirely. The new bathroom sits nearby, tidy and complete.
Upstairs, the landing is generous — the kind with actual storage cupboards rather than a narrow passageway — and it gives onto three bedrooms. One runs to around 35 square metres, which is a genuinely large room by any standard. The current owners flag it as a candidate for a master suite, and they're right: there's room for a freestanding bath, a proper dressing area, and a sitting corner without any compromise. The plumbing potential is already there to add a second bathroom upstairs, which would make the layout work flawlessly for a family of four or for hosting guests across multiple generations.
Total floor space across the house reaches 144 square metres — enough room to spread out without the upkeep becoming a weekend job.
Saint-Cyr-la-Campagne sits in the Eure département, roughly an hour and ten minutes from Paris on the A13 — the same motorway that funnels Parisians out toward Deauville and the Côte Fleurie every summer Friday. The difference here is that you turn off before the traffic thickens. The village is genuinely quiet, the kind of place where the boulangerie knows your order by your third visit. Elbeuf, the nearest town of substance, has a high school, a market, and enough day-to-day infrastructure to make weekends effortless. Rouen — cathedral, old quarter, Flaubert's birthplace, excellent brasseries along the Rue Eau-de-Robec — is a short drive north. You can be eating moules marinières and drinking a glass of Muscadet on a Honfleur quayside within an hour.
The Norman coast is one of France's most varied stretches of shoreline. Deauville's planches and horse-racing calendar attract a particular crowd; Étretat's chalk cliffs draw everyone else. Both are within an easy drive. Inland, the Seine Valley between Les Andelys and Rouen is cycling and hiking country — the GR2 long-distance trail runs along the river, and the Forêt de Brotonne nature park is close enough for a morning trail run with the afternoon free. In summer, the apple orchards around the Eure fill out into a landscape that looks almost aggressively picturesque, and local markets sell calvados and cidre bouché that you won't find on any shelf back home. In winter, the region quiets down into something more personal — weekend walks along frost-hardened paths, fires in the evening, a slower rhythm that's harder to find than people expect.
For international buyers, this is an entry point into the Normandy second-home market at a price — €235,000 — that reflects genuine value for a property of this size, condition, and location. French property law is well-established for non-resident buyers, and the notarial process, while thorough, is transparent. Land tax runs around €1,000 per year, a manageable fixed cost. The Paris proximity makes this a realistic weekend-use property from day one, and the consistent demand from French city-based second-home buyers means the market here is stable.
Rental potential deserves a mention. The A13 corridor between Paris and the coast sees strong seasonal demand from families who want something quieter and more private than a coastal apartment. A four-bedroom house on a private riverside plot, move-in ready, within that catchment is a rare find. Short-term letting during summer months could comfortably offset a significant portion of annual ownership costs.
Some cosmetic work remains — space to personalise rather than problems to solve. The infrastructure is already done: the electrics, the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedrooms. What's left is aesthetic, and that's exactly the kind of project that makes a property yours rather than someone else's hand-me-down.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms including one large ground-floor room with dressing room and one 35m² upstairs room with master suite potential
- 1 full bathroom (new 2023) with bathtub, sink and walk-in shower; plumbing capacity for a second upstairs bathroom
- New fully fitted and equipped kitchen (2021)
- Complete electrical rewire (2021)
- Freshly renovated upstairs bedrooms (2025)
- Wood-burning stove in main living room with terracotta flooring
- Private enclosed wooded plot of approximately 1,000m²
- Direct riverside frontage with no overlooking neighbours
- Integrated garage with direct internal house access
- Workshop on the plot
- New PVC double-glazed windows with wood-finish frames (2023)
- 144m² total living space
- Land tax approximately €1,000/year
- 1hr 10min to Paris via A13; easy reach of Rouen, Deauville, Honfleur, and Étretat
- Listed at €235,000 with seller covering agency fees
If you've been looking for a four-bedroom holiday home in Normandy that's ready to use from the moment you collect the keys — with room to grow, a private river setting, and a Paris connection that makes long weekends genuinely practical — this is the one to see in person. Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to get detailed information on the buying process for international purchasers. The calendar fills up; this kind of property doesn't sit around.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 144m²
- Price per m²
- €1,632
- Garden size
- 1902m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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