4-Bed Stone Farmhouse & Guest Annex Near Beauville, Lot-et-Garonne – Second Home in Southwest France



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, Beauville, France, Beauville (France)
4 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 208m² Floor area
€595,000
House
Parking
4 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
208m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in southwest France sounds like this: a wood pigeon calling from the walnut tree outside, coffee brewing in a kitchen built from bleached oak and old stone, and absolutely nothing else demanding your attention. That's the daily reality of owning this 208 sq m restored stone farmhouse in a quiet hamlet just outside Beauville — a property that took its time becoming what it is, and shows every bit of it.
The house sits among the rolling valleys of Lot-et-Garonne, a département that most international buyers fly over on the way to Dordogne without realizing they're passing one of the most quietly rewarding pockets of rural France. Prune orchards, sunflower fields, truffle-rich oak woods — the landscape shifts with every season, and you'll find yourself noticing all of it from the covered stone terrace where lunch tends to run well past three o'clock in July.
The farmhouse itself is genuinely old, and the restoration didn't try to disguise that fact. Exposed limestone walls, hand-hewn oak beams, flagstone floors worn smooth over generations — these aren't decorative choices, they're what was already there. The work involved knowing what to keep and what to quietly modernize: double glazing sits behind deep stone reveals, a heat pump system hums efficiently behind a centuries-old façade, and a bespoke kitchen in bleached oak with stone countertops and integrated appliances would look entirely at home in the pages of a serious interiors magazine. The pantry off the kitchen is the kind of detail that only makes sense once you're shopping at the Friday market in Puymirol and coming home with more than you planned.
There are four bedrooms across the main house, each with air conditioning and heating through the heat pump. Three bathrooms, all properly appointed — not afterthoughts. A landing wide enough to function as a music room currently does exactly that, giving the upper floor a sense of space that smaller farmhouse conversions often lose. Two separate sitting rooms, a study, a boot room with its own wood-burning stove for the colder months when the Lot-et-Garonne mornings bite harder than visitors expect. The stove in the main sitting room throws enough heat to make February evenings genuinely cozy rather than something to endure.
Separate from the main house, the guest annex is a one-bedroom space that mirrors the quality of the primary building — its own heat pump, a clean simple kitchen, an elegant bathroom. It functions naturally as accommodation for visiting family, but it also works as a rental unit for international buyers looking at the vacation property market in southwest France. Agen sits 30 minutes away, with TGV connections that put Paris within 3 hours 20 minutes. Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is just over an hour by car, served by most major European carriers including easyJet and Ryanair. The rental season here runs longer than people assume — late April through October, with walkers and cyclists extending the shoulder months thanks to the Lot-et-Garonne's network of greenways and pilgrimage routes that feed into the Camino de Santiago.
The large stone barn behind the house offers covered parking, a workshop area, and a woodshed that keeps the stoves running through winter. Outside, the gardens are mature and private — the kind that took decades of good decisions to reach this point and will ask relatively little of the next owner to maintain. The swimming pool has an electric cover and a stone sun deck that catches the afternoon light until late evening in summer.
Beauville itself is five minutes away by car, a classic bastide town on a hilltop with a weekly market, a boulangerie that locals will tell you has the best pain de campagne in the area, and a café terrace with a view across three river valleys. Bourg-de-Visa is equally close for day-to-day needs. The broader region offers serious eating — Agen is the world capital of the pruneaux d'Agen (the AOC prune, which sounds modest until you try one stuffed with armagnac foie gras at any of the town's better tables), and the Côtes du Marmandais wine route is an afternoon's easy driving through cooperative cellars and small domaines where you can fill cases at prices that feel almost embarrassing compared to what the same bottles cost elsewhere.
For outdoor life, the Garonne river corridor runs roughly 25 minutes south, offering kayaking, cycling on the flow vélo, and river swimming. The Pyrénées — serious mountains, not foothills — are around two hours away for hiking or skiing at Piau-Engaly and Saint-Lary-Soulan. Closer to home, the Forêt de la Bessède and the regional natural park of Périgord-Limousin are both within range for a proper day's walking. The climate is Aquitaine continental: hot dry summers regularly hitting 32–35°C, mild springs and autumns, and winters that are cool rather than harsh. Around 2,100 hours of sunshine per year. It suits a property with a pool and a shaded terrace.
The septic system meets current standards. Much of the furniture — selected with genuine taste — is available through separate negotiation, meaning the practical business of taking possession can be straightforward for buyers coming from abroad. French property law requires a notaire for the transaction, and international buyers should engage a specialist bilingual legal advisor early; the process is thorough but well-structured. For EU and non-EU buyers alike, Lot-et-Garonne has no particular ownership restrictions, and the local property market has remained stable while offering better value per square metre than better-known Dordogne addresses to the north.
Key features at a glance:
- 4-bedroom stone farmhouse, fully restored, 208 sq m
- 3 fully appointed bathrooms
- Bespoke bleached oak kitchen with stone countertops, integrated appliances, and pantry
- Two wood-burning stoves, heat pump system, oil-fired central heating, double glazing
- Separate 1-bedroom guest annex with own kitchen, bathroom, and heat pump
- Large stone barn with covered parking, workshop, and woodshed
- Heated swimming pool with electric cover and stone sun deck
- Mature, landscaped private gardens
- Covered stone terrace ideal for outdoor dining
- Exposed limestone walls, antique beams, and original flagstone floors throughout
- Air conditioning in all bedrooms
- Septic system compliant with current regulations
- Furniture available by separate negotiation
- 5 minutes to Beauville bastide town, 30 minutes to Agen TGV, 1hr+ to Toulouse Airport
- Strong vacation rental potential across an extended season
This is not a project. It's a property that's already done the hard work — architecturally, practically, and atmospherically — and is ready for someone to simply arrive and start living in it. If you'd like to arrange a private viewing or have questions about the purchase process as an international buyer, get in touch with the team at Homestra. Properties at this level of finish and authenticity in Lot-et-Garonne don't sit on the market for long, and this one will be no exception.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 208m²
- Price per m²
- €2,861
- Garden size
- 6360m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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