4-Bed Stone House with Pool & Garden Gazebo – Corrèze, Limousin Vacation Home



Limousin, Corrèze, Louignac, France, Louignac (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 110m² Floor area
€249,500
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
110m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a Sunday morning in Louignac, the only thing that wakes you is birdsong. Not traffic, not neighbours, not the hum of a city that never quite switches off. Just the breeze moving through the oak trees at the edge of your garden, and the faint smell of damp grass catching the early light. That's what life feels like in this four-bedroom stone house in the Corrèze — and once you've felt it, it's hard to unfeel.
This is rural France as it actually exists, not as it's romanticised on a postcard. Louignac sits in the rolling green Limousin countryside, a place where the land hasn't been manicured for tourists. The fields are real working fields. The stone walls lining the roads are a few centuries old. The weekly market at Objat — just twenty minutes away — sells duck confit, walnuts, and cheeses from farms you could cycle to. This is the kind of France that people spend years searching for, and rarely find still available at a price that makes sense.
The house itself is solid and full of character. Stone construction throughout, which means thick walls that keep rooms cool in July and hold the warmth of the pellet stove through January without breaking a sweat. The ground floor is anchored by a generous kitchen-dining room — genuinely fitted and equipped, not the vague claim you see on listings where the "equipped kitchen" turns out to be a single plug socket. This room opens directly into the living room, so the whole social heart of the house flows together as one connected space. In winter, the pellet stove becomes the gravitational centre of every evening. In summer, the doors open and the room breathes out into the garden.
Behind the kitchen, there's a laundry room that has a second life waiting for it. The proportions and the light make it a natural home office — genuinely useful if you're the kind of buyer who can work remotely and has been looking for a reason to spend three months in the French countryside. That reason now has a room.
Upstairs, three bedrooms — two of which connect in sequence, which works particularly well for families with young children, or for guests who need a private suite without taking over an entire floor. The bathroom and shower room serve the upper level without any awkward sharing arrangements.
The fourth bedroom adds real flexibility. Use it as a guest room, a reading retreat, or a workspace for longer stays. Four bedrooms in this part of France at this price point is genuinely rare.
Outside is where this property shifts from comfortable to memorable. The swimming pool sits with an open view across the landscape — on a clear afternoon you can watch the light change across the Corrèze hills while you're floating on your back in the water. There's a pool room for storage and equipment, which means the garden itself stays clean and uncluttered. The garden gazebo is the kind of structure that sounds like a detail but becomes, in practice, one of the most-used spots on the property. A table, a bottle of local Cahors wine, the low sound of insects in the grass — that's most of your summer evenings sorted.
The garage adds practicality that international buyers often underestimate until they've left a car outdoors through a French winter once.
The Corrèze département is one of France's best-kept secrets. It doesn't have the profile of the Dordogne to its west, which means property prices haven't been inflated by decades of British and Dutch demand. But the quality of life is comparable, arguably better in terms of authenticity and space. The Vézère and Corrèze rivers offer kayaking, fishing, and some of the most quietly dramatic riverside scenery in the country. Collonges-la-Rouge — one of the officially designated "most beautiful villages in France" — is close enough for a leisurely afternoon drive. The medieval city of Brive-la-Gaillarde, thirty-eight minutes away, has a proper regional airport with connections to Paris and several European cities, which makes this property genuinely accessible as a second home without requiring a major journey every time.
Terrasson, twenty-two minutes out, hosts the remarkable Jardins de l'Imaginaire — an internationally noted garden complex built into a hillside above the Vézère, worth visiting more than once through the changing seasons. In autumn, the whole region turns amber and rust, and the walnut harvest brings an earthy sweetness to every farm stall and Sunday market.
Winters here are mild by northern European standards. Snow is possible but not the rule. The area is genuinely four-season liveable, which matters if you're considering it for extended stays or year-round use rather than just a summer retreat.
For international buyers, the Corrèze sits in a region with a well-established notaire system and a property market that has historically been stable. The price point here — 249,500 euros for a four-bedroom stone house with a pool — reflects the fact that this area rewards buyers who look beyond the obvious. The rental potential is real: demand for rural gîte accommodation in the Limousin has grown steadily, with platforms listing Corrèze properties achieving strong occupancy in summer and shoulder seasons, particularly from UK, German, and Dutch travellers seeking space and quiet.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms across two floors, with flexible layout for families or working couples
- 2 bathrooms (one full bathroom, one shower room)
- 110 square metres of interior space in solid stone construction
- Fully fitted and equipped kitchen-dining room with flow into living room
- Pellet stove in the living room for efficient, atmospheric winter heating
- Laundry room with strong potential as a home office
- Private swimming pool with open countryside views
- Garden gazebo with sitting area
- Pool room for equipment and storage
- Private garage
- Large natural garden with mature trees and open aspect
- 20 minutes to Objat market town, 38 minutes to Brive-la-Gaillarde and its airport
- Close to Collonges-la-Rouge and the Jardins de l'Imaginaire in Terrasson
- Strong gîte rental potential in a growing short-stay market
- Listed at 249,500 euros — competitive for a four-bedroom pool property in Corrèze
Properties like this don't sit around waiting. The Corrèze is starting to attract the attention that the Dordogne had twenty years ago, and the window to buy well here won't stay open indefinitely. If you've been thinking seriously about a second home in France that offers genuine countryside living, accessible travel connections, and the kind of stillness that actually restores you — this is worth a visit.
Get in touch through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request more information. The Sunday mornings are already waiting for you.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 110m²
- Price per m²
- €2,268
- Garden size
- 3201m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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