4-Bed Stone Farmhouse with Gîte & Campsite Business Near Dordogne, Marval



Limousin, Haute-Vienne, Marval, France, Marval (France)
4 Bedrooms · 4 Bathrooms · 340m² Floor area
€590,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
4 Bathrooms
340m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Picture this: a warm July evening in the Haute-Vienne, the last of the sun dropping behind the tree line, and twenty guests seated on a wide stone terrace eating pizza fresh from a professional kitchen. You cooked it. You poured the wine. And technically, this is just Tuesday. That's the kind of life this 340 m² farmhouse-and-campsite package in Marval makes possible — and it's already up and running.
Sitting on a generous 52,000 m² of land right on the boundary between Haute-Vienne and the Dordogne, this 1850s stone farmhouse has been thoughtfully modernised without losing any of the grit that makes rural Limousin properties so appealing to buyers looking for something real. The thick walls keep the interior cool in August when the sunflower fields outside are at their most golden. In February, the wood-burning stove in the sitting room becomes the centre of everything.
The farmhouse itself spans 260 m² across two floors. You walk in through a generous entrance hall — proper width, not the poky corridor you find in so many renovated rurales — and immediately the layout makes sense. To the left, a well-fitted kitchen for private family use. To the right, a large living and dining room with actual space for both functions, not a compromise between them. At the rear of the house sits a second, fully-equipped professional kitchen, purpose-built for the table d'hôte dinners, pizza nights, and weekend breakfast service the current owners run. Meals go out through the back and onto the terrace, where guests eat with views across the site. It's a proper hospitality setup, not a hobby.
Upstairs, three double bedrooms and one smaller but still well-proportioned room share the first floor. The master has an adjoining space — currently used as a walk-in wardrobe area but easily converted to a nursery or single sleeping room. Two of the three bathrooms have been retiled in travertine recently. The third has a wooden floor, which gives it a slightly different character — warmer, less formal. Internal access from the first floor takes you up to the barn level, which opens up further possibilities the current owners haven't yet explored.
Practical details worth knowing: double-glazed windows were fitted across the farmhouse in 2019, the septic system is also 2019, and the lavender-coloured shutters — a detail that gives the exterior real personality — were repainted in 2022. Heating runs via oil-fired central heating backed up by the wood stove. There's even a cellar accessed from the hallway, useful for wine storage or equipment.
The gîte is a separate stone structure with a historic bread oven extension still intact. Sixty square metres split across two floors: a renovated ground-floor kitchen, dining area, sitting room, a bunk bedroom and a wood stove on the lower level; a double bedroom and renovated bathroom with shower upstairs. It has its own private terrace and garden, giving guests genuine separation from the main campsite while still being integrated into the property's broader rhythm. This is the kind of gîte that gets five-star reviews on booking platforms — stone walls, private outdoor space, character that a new-build simply can't replicate.
Then there's the campsite. Permitted for 30 pitches, currently running with 32 power points distributed across 8 connection stations around the site. Standard pitches for tents and caravans, plus nine safari tents: six XL units at 6x9m on wooden floors, and three L tents at 5x7m, also with wooden floors. Each tent comes kitted out with a mobile kitchen unit, indoor and outdoor dining, beds, and a hammock. The communal sanitary block has five showers, four toilets, two washbasins, and four dishwashing stations. Guests also have access to a fridge, microwave and washing machine. At the centre of the site: a children's play area with trampoline and table tennis, a campfire pit, and a 7x3m swimming pool. This is not a scrappy field with electricity cables — this is a functioning, established holiday business with infrastructure already in place.
The current owners outsource the cooking. Bringing that back in-house — using the professional kitchen that already exists in the farmhouse — would add a meaningful revenue stream and make the table d'hôte nights a genuine draw. The kitchen is certified and ready. That's a real business decision waiting to be made by the next owner.
Marval sits in the southern edge of Haute-Vienne, close enough to the Dordogne border that you can be in Brantôme — the Venice of the Périgord, with its riverside abbey and famous foie gras restaurants on the Rue Gambetta — in around forty minutes. The medieval market town of Nontron is a short drive south, with its knife-making heritage, Saturday market, and one of the best local patisseries in the region. Limoges, the departmental capital famous for its porcelain and its half-timbered old town, is an hour north. The A20 motorway connects Limoges to Paris in a little over three hours. For international buyers, Limoges Airport handles routes from London Stansted, Liverpool, and Dublin among others — a real practical advantage for anyone flying in to manage the property seasonally.
The climate here is classic Limousin: proper four-season living. Summers are warm and long without the searing heat of Provence, which actually makes the campsite season more comfortable for guests — mid-June through early September is reliably good. Spring brings the countryside back in a rush of green that's genuinely striking. Autumn is mushroom season, and the forests around Marval are prime territory for cèpes. The weekly markets in nearby Saint-Mathieu and Châlus are the kind where you actually shop rather than photograph.
For outdoor pursuits, the Haute-Vienne delivers. The Lac de Saint-Mathieu is minutes away for swimming, kayaking, and lakeside picnics. The Vélofrenie cycling route passes through the region. Hiking trails through the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park — formally protected land with oak forest, granite outcrops, and river valleys — are accessible directly from the surrounding area.
For an international buyer looking at second home property in France, this is unusually well-structured. You're acquiring a private residence, an income-generating gîte, and a campsite business under one title — a combination that gives you genuine flexibility. Live here full-time, use the farmhouse seasonally and rent everything else, or run it as a fully operational hospitality business. The infrastructure for all three scenarios already exists.
Key features at a glance:
- 1850s stone farmhouse, 260 m², fully modernised with authentic character retained
- 4 bedrooms across the main house, 3 full bathrooms plus WC, plus gym, office, and laundry room
- Professional fully-equipped second kitchen for guest dining and table d'hôte service
- Wood-burning stove in living room, oil-fired central heating throughout, cellar below
- Double-glazed windows (2019), septic system (2019), shutters repainted (2022)
- Stone gîte, 60 m², 2 bedrooms, renovated kitchen and bathroom, private terrace and garden
- Licensed campsite for 30 pitches with 32 power connections across 8 distribution points
- 9 safari tents (6 XL + 3 L) with wooden floors, kitchenettes, and hammocks
- Full sanitary block: 5 showers, 4 toilets, washing machine, dishwashing stations
- 7x3m swimming pool, children's play area, campfire pit, table tennis
- 52,000 m² of land on the Dordogne / Haute-Vienne border
- 40 minutes from Brantôme, 1 hour from Limoges, direct flights from London and Dublin
- Priced at €590,000 — rare value for a turnkey multi-income property in rural southwest France
Properties combining this level of established infrastructure with this much land at this price point are not common in the French market. The region is increasingly popular with UK, Irish, and northern European buyers who discovered during the pandemic that Haute-Vienne offered everything Dordogne did at a fraction of the price — and that gap hasn't closed as much as you might think.
If you want to understand what a typical summer week looks like operationally, or if you'd like a breakdown of the current booking volumes and revenue history, get in touch through Homestra. More photos are available on request, and private viewings can be arranged around the current booking calendar.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 340m²
- Price per m²
- €1,735
- Garden size
- 52000m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 4
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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