4-Bed Village House with Large Garden in Beauville Bastide, Lot-et-Garonne



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, Beauville, France, Beauville (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 190m² Floor area
€345,000
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
190m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Beauville starts with the smell of bread. The boulangerie on the main square fires up early, and if your bedroom window is open—which it will be, because the air here in July is warm but never stifling—the scent reaches you before your alarm does. That's not a selling point you'll find in any brochure. It's just what life is like in this particular corner of Lot-et-Garonne, and it's the kind of thing that turns a holiday home purchase into one of the best decisions you ever made.
This four-bedroom village house sits right in the heart of Beauville, one of the most intact bastide villages in Aquitaine. Built to a medieval grid plan in the 13th century, Beauville has the kind of architectural coherence that planners in other towns spend millions trying to recreate. The covered arcades around the central square, the honey-coloured stone, the church tower that chimes the quarter-hours—it's all still here, and this house is part of it. From the front door, the market square is a two-minute walk. From the top-floor living space, you can watch the whole village go about its business.
The house covers around 190 square metres across three floors, and what strikes you first is how much space there actually is. Village properties in the Lot-et-Garonne often look compact from the street and reveal themselves slowly. This one does exactly that. The ground floor has a bedroom that works perfectly for guests who don't want stairs, or for owners who eventually want single-level living as a practical option. The first floor holds three more well-proportioned bedrooms and two bathrooms. And then there's the top floor—converted, bright, sitting under the original roof timbers—currently used as a family room and home office but genuinely versatile. An artist's studio, a cinema room, a teenage den, a serious library. The beams give it character that no amount of renovation budget can manufacture from scratch.
Heating is handled by a heat pump with reversible air conditioning—so the house stays cool through the long Gascon summers without rattling up electricity bills—plus two pellet stoves that make winter evenings genuinely cosy rather than just tolerable. The property is connected to mains drainage and is in good, move-in ready condition. No gut renovation, no holding your breath waiting for quotes. You can be here for next summer.
The garden is the element that sets this property apart from most village houses in the area. Getting a private enclosed garden of this size in the centre of a bastide is genuinely unusual—most comparable homes either front directly onto the street or have only a courtyard. Here, the plot is large enough to install a pool (planning permissions required, as is standard in France), create a proper outdoor dining terrace, grow vegetables, or simply give children somewhere to run around that isn't the public square. There's vehicle access too, which anyone who has tried to park in a medieval village on market day will immediately appreciate.
Beauville itself deserves more than a paragraph. The weekly market draws producers from across the surrounding farms—duck confits, armagnac from estates just down the road, strawberries from the Lot valley that are so sweet they barely need anything done to them. The village has a café, a restaurant, and a small but active international community that has quietly been discovering this corner of France for the past two decades. You're not a pioneer, but you're not in a tourist hotspot either. It's the comfortable middle ground.
Agen—the prune capital of France and a proper regional city with a TGV station—is around 35 kilometres away. Paris is under three hours by train from Agen, which matters considerably when you're thinking about how often you'll actually use a French second home. Villeneuve-sur-Lot is closer still, with a good hospital, supermarkets, and a lively Saturday market that locals treat as a social event. Lauzerte, one of the official Plus Beaux Villages de France, is a short drive and worth an afternoon every time you visit.
The climate here runs to over 2,000 hours of sunshine annually. Summers are long and reliably warm, spring arrives early with the sunflower fields turning yellow by late June, and winters are mild enough to make off-season visits genuinely pleasant rather than something to endure. If you ski, the Pyrenees are around two hours south. The Dordogne valley and Périgord Noir—the caves at Lascaux, the markets at Sarlat—are under an hour north.
For international buyers, France remains one of the more straightforward European countries in which to purchase property. Notaire fees typically add around 7-8% to the purchase price for older properties, and there's no restriction on foreign ownership. The tax framework for rental income is well-established, and the region sees consistent demand from British, Dutch, and German holidaymakers looking for rural Gascon stays—giving this property genuine short-term rental potential if that's of interest, particularly given the garden and the village-centre position.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms across three floors, including a flexible ground-floor room
- 2 bathrooms
- Approximately 190 square metres of living space
- Top-floor multi-purpose room with original roof timbers
- Energy-efficient reversible heat pump plus two pellet stoves
- Large private enclosed garden—rare for a village-centre property
- Vehicle access to the plot
- Space and permissions potential for swimming pool installation
- Mains drainage connected
- Two-minute walk to Beauville's market square, café, and restaurant
- 35km from Agen TGV station (Paris under 3 hours)
- Close to Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lauzerte, and the Dordogne valley
- Move-in ready condition—no renovation required
- Strong short-term rental potential in an area with consistent international tourist demand
Properties that combine a prime bastide location, this much interior space, and a garden you can actually do something with don't come to market often in Beauville. When they do, they tend to move quickly—and for good reason.
If you'd like to arrange a viewing or want more information about buying a vacation home in Lot-et-Garonne as an international buyer, get in touch with the team at Homestra today. We can connect you with local legal advisors, help you understand the purchasing process end to end, and make sure your first summer in Beauville is everything you're imagining right now.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 190m²
- Price per m²
- €1,816
- Garden size
- 1050m²
- 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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