4-Bed Stone House with Dovecote & Heated Pool – Vacation Home Near Lauzerte, SW France



Midi-Pyrénées, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lauzerte, France, Lauzerte (France)
4 Bedrooms · 0 Bathrooms · 232m² Floor area
€535,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
0 Bathrooms
232m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Pour the wine first. That's the thing about this particular house — the moment you pull off the country lane and the façade comes into view, all 19th-century honey-stone and crowned by its original dovecote, the decision has already made itself. You haven't opened a door yet, haven't walked the garden or dipped a toe in the pool, and yet you know. Some properties earn their keep slowly. This one doesn't have to.
Lauzerte sits in the Tarn-et-Garonne department of southwest France, high on a hilltop above a patchwork of sunflower fields and vine-striped valleys. It's officially listed among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France — one of only a handful in the region to earn that designation — and it wears the title without fuss. The medieval lanes wind up to a church square where locals play pétanque in the shade and the Wednesday market brings out the cheesemakers, the honey sellers, and the couple from the next village who make a duck confit that borders on illegal. This is not a sanitised tourist village. People actually live here, grow things here, eat extremely well here.
The house itself is five minutes from that square by car, set back from the road on its own grounds with open countryside rolling away in every direction and not a neighbor in sight. Built from the dense local limestone that absorbs the afternoon heat and glows amber by evening, it was restored with the kind of restraint that takes real confidence — nothing fussy, nothing false. The original terracotta floor tiles run throughout the ground floor, worn to a satiny finish by a century and a half of footfall. Overhead, the oak beams are left exactly as they should be. Exposed stone walls anchor every room. Old stone steps connect the levels with the kind of quiet authority that no renovation budget can manufacture.
The ground floor opens into a generous living space that somehow manages to feel both grand and genuinely comfortable — the sort of room that works equally well for a rainy November afternoon with a fire going and a stack of novels as it does for a summer dinner party that starts at eight and ends at midnight. The stone fireplace is not decorative. It works, it draws well, and in January it is the centre of the universe. The kitchen runs modern without apology: integrated appliances, clean lines, every convenience that makes actually cooking here a pleasure rather than a project. Above the living area, a mezzanine level sits just right for a home office, a reading corner, or a spare sleeping spot that teenagers will immediately claim as their own territory.
Four bedrooms, all of them properly sized and decorated with a quiet sophistication that doesn't shout. The main suite has its own working fireplace — which, once you've experienced it on a cold February morning in southwest France, you'll consider non-negotiable for the rest of your life. Each room connects to a contemporary bathroom finished to a standard that matches the care taken throughout the house. Move-in ready is a phrase that gets thrown around carelessly, but here it is simply accurate. Unpack, open something cold, go outside.
Outside is where the property shifts into a different register entirely. A covered terrace runs along the back of the house — long enough for a full table, sheltered enough to use well into October. The pétanque court is there, properly laid out, and you will use it more than you think. The gardens have been planted thoughtfully over time: cypress trees standing like sentinels along the boundary, lavender in thick clumps that hum with bees from June onwards, established plantings that give shade and structure without requiring constant maintenance. The views from the garden are the kind that stop a conversation mid-sentence.
Then there's the pool. Heated, with an electric cover, positioned to catch the sun from morning through late afternoon. The pool house alongside it is genuinely exceptional — a summer kitchen with built-in barbecue, a covered terrace fitted with electric shutters that can close out a summer storm in thirty seconds, and enough space to host the kind of long lunch that drifts naturally into aperitifs and then dinner without anyone quite deciding it should. A double garage handles the cars. A heat pump keeps the whole property efficiently warm through the cooler months.
For a second home in this part of France, the practicalities stack up well. Toulouse-Blagnac airport is roughly 90 minutes by car and serves direct flights from London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, and several other European hubs. Agen, the nearest TGV station, puts Paris just over three hours away by train. The local infrastructure around Lauzerte — the shops, the pharmacy, the weekly market, the clutch of good restaurants in the village — means you can arrive on a Friday evening and not need to think about logistics until Monday.
The Tarn-et-Garonne draws serious attention from British, Dutch, and Belgian buyers in particular, and the southwest France vacation home market has shown consistent resilience. Properties like this one — with genuine period character, modern infrastructure, a pool, and proximity to an authenticated village — represent a category of their own. They don't come up often. When they do, they don't wait.
Key features at a glance:
- 19th-century stone farmhouse with original dovecote, 232 sq m of living space
- Four bedrooms, each with contemporary bathroom
- Original terracotta tile floors, exposed stone walls, oak beamed ceilings throughout
- Grand open-plan living room with working stone fireplace
- Modern fitted kitchen with integrated appliances
- Mezzanine level ideal as office, reading room, or additional sleeping area
- Master suite with working fireplace
- Heated swimming pool with electric safety cover
- Exceptional pool house with summer kitchen, built-in BBQ, and shuttered covered terrace
- Long covered terrace off the main house
- Pétanque court
- Double garage
- Heat pump heating system for year-round efficiency
- Landscaped gardens with cypress, lavender, and mature plantings
- Panoramic open countryside views with no immediate neighbours
- Five minutes from Lauzerte village shops and restaurants
- 90 minutes from Toulouse-Blagnac international airport
This is the kind of property that makes people reorganise their priorities. If you've been looking for a vacation home in southwest France that delivers on every level — history, comfort, outdoor living, privacy, and genuine village life within arm's reach — it's time to have a conversation.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request the full property dossier. The pool is warm, the lavender is coming into bloom, and the pétanque court isn't going to christen itself.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 232m²
- Price per m²
- €2,306
- Garden size
- 5000m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 0
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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