4-Bed Stone House with Barn & 4,000m² Land – Vacation Home in Dordogne, France



Aquitaine, Dordogne, Payzac, France, Payzac (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 122m² Floor area
€129,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
122m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Payzac sounds like this: a rooster somewhere beyond the tree line, the faint clatter of a boulangerie shutter rolling up in the village, and from your terrace, nothing but open countryside rolling out in every direction. No traffic noise. No sirens. Just the particular quiet that the Dordogne does better than almost anywhere else in France.
This four-bedroom stone house sits inside a tiny hamlet just minutes from Payzac itself — one of those blink-and-you-miss-it villages that locals protect fiercely and outsiders discover only by accident. The property is the real thing: thick-walled, honest, built to last centuries and largely succeeding at that goal. At 122 square metres of living space, it's not a sprawling château, but it's generous enough for two families travelling together, or a couple who want room to breathe without a house that turns into a cleaning project every Sunday.
Step through the entrance hall and the layout makes immediate sense. The living room has a fireplace — the kind you actually use on cool October evenings, not the decorative kind that exists for photographs. French doors pull the terrace right into the room, dissolving the line between inside and out in a way that only works when the outdoors is genuinely worth dissolving into. The fitted kitchen and dining room open the same way, so summer meals drift naturally onto the stone terrace with a bottle of Bergerac rouge and no particular reason to go back inside. Upstairs, four bedrooms, each around 12 square metres — compact, but properly so, the way old French farmhouse rooms tend to be, with thick walls that keep them cool even in August when the Périgord sun gets serious.
Then there's what's across the lane. A barn of roughly 140 square metres plus an adjoining hangar of about 41 square metres. That's not storage — that's possibility. A gîte conversion. A studio. A workshop for someone who makes things with their hands. A garage for the car and still space left over. French planning permissions in rural Dordogne are worth investigating, and many buyers of similar properties have successfully created rental income from barn conversions that now pull in guests from March through October.
The land stretches to just over 4,139 square metres — more than an acre — with a well on the property. That well matters. Gardens in the Dordogne can be ambitious. Potager vegetables, lavender, sunflowers that actually make sense this far south. The open views from the plot don't bump into another building on any side, which in rural France is not guaranteed and in popular areas is actively rare.
Payzac sits in the northern Dordogne, in a part of the Périgord Vert that most international buyers haven't yet colonised. That's changing, but slowly. Brantôme — the Venice of the Périgord, built around a loop of the Dronne river with its abbey and cave paintings — is roughly 35 kilometres southwest. Périgueux, the departmental capital with its remarkable domed cathedral of Saint-Front and its covered market on Saturday mornings where farmers bring walnuts, foie gras, and Cabécou cheese by the basket, is about an hour's drive. Closer still is the Château de Jumilhac, one of the most photogenic feudal fortresses in southwest France and barely twenty minutes away.
The Dordogne river itself — with its canoe rental spots, its cliff-top Cathar castles, its riverbank restaurants that serve confit de canard the way it was always meant to be served — is accessible within forty-five minutes south. The region is lousy with medieval villages. Les Eyzies, Beynac, La Roque-Gageac. You won't run out of Sunday drives for years.
Seasonally, this part of France rewards patience. Spring here is extraordinary — the fields between Payzac and Thiviers turn a shade of green that seems improbable. Summer is warm, dry, and long, running well into September with temperatures that invite outdoor living without the scorching heat of Provence. Autumn is arguably the finest season of all: walnut and chestnut harvests, truffle markets beginning in November, the light going amber and low over the fields by four in the afternoon. Winters are mild compared to northern Europe, though the fireplace earns its keep.
For access, Périgueux Bassillac Airport handles some domestic and charter routes. Limoges Airport, a popular gateway for British and northern European visitors, is roughly 75 kilometres northeast — under an hour on the A20. Bergerac Airport, with regular Ryanair connections to the UK and several other European cities, is about 100 kilometres south. The TGV from Paris reaches Périgueux in around three and a half hours.
At €129,000 for a stone house with four bedrooms, a barn, a hangar, a well, and more than an acre of land with open views, this is a realistic entry point into the French rural property market — not a compromise. Properties with this combination of outbuildings and land in the Périgord Vert have been appreciating steadily as remote-working buyers and second-home seekers discover the northern Dordogne. The barn conversion potential alone represents significant upside for buyers willing to invest incrementally.
For international buyers, France's property purchase process is handled through a notaire — a state-appointed official who manages contracts and title transfer — which gives buyers solid legal protection. The total purchase costs (notaire fees, registration taxes) typically add around 7–8% to the sale price on older properties. Non-resident owners can rent the property through seasonal letting platforms or local agents, with rental income subject to French tax at rates dependent on ownership structure. A local accountant specialising in non-resident property can optimise this considerably.
Key features at a glance:
- Four-bedroom stone house, 122 m² of living space, in good condition
- Separate barn approximately 140 m² with adjoining hangar of 41 m²
- Over 4,100 m² of land (just over one acre) with a private well
- Fireplace in the living room; shower room and bathroom with WC
- French doors from both living room and kitchen onto stone terrace
- Open countryside views with no immediate neighbouring buildings
- Hamlet setting minutes from the village of Payzac
- Château de Jumilhac approximately 20 minutes by car
- Brantôme and its river abbey roughly 35 km southwest
- Périgueux Saturday market and Saint-Front Cathedral about 60 km
- Limoges Airport approximately 75 km; Bergerac Airport approximately 100 km
- Barn conversion potential for gîte or rental income (subject to planning)
- Priced at €129,000 — strong value for stone property with outbuildings in Dordogne
If you've been thinking about a second home in France — somewhere that feels genuinely rooted in its landscape rather than dressed up for tourists — this hamlet house in the Périgord Vert deserves a proper look. Get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property details. The terrace and that open view will do the rest of the persuading themselves.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 122m²
- Price per m²
- €1,057
- Garden size
- 4139m²
- 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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