4-Bed Village House with Pool & Garden in Montmoreau, Charente – Second Home in Southwest France



Poitou-Charentes, Charente, St-Amant, France, Montmoreau (France)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 130m² Floor area
€191,500
House
Parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
130m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a quiet morning in Montmoreau, you open the kitchen window and catch the smell of bread baking from the boulangerie two streets over. The old lime tree in the garden is already throwing long shadows across the grass. Church bells tick off the hour somewhere behind the rooftops. This is what a second home in the Charente actually feels like — not a postcard, but a life you can walk right into.
This four-bedroom house sits on a 2,500 m² fenced plot just a few minutes' walk from the center of Montmoreau, a genuine working village where the shops are open, the school is busy, and the weekly market still matters. At €191,500, it's one of those rare finds in southwest France where the price doesn't force you into a compromise. The house is in good condition, connected to the public sewage system, and ready to move into or rent out from day one — no major works, no guesswork.
Inside, the layout is generous without feeling excessive. Three bedrooms serve the everyday sleeping arrangement, but the fourth room — a spacious music room running along one side of the ground floor — is the kind of flexible space that a vacation home really benefits from. Use it as a fourth bedroom when the family multiplies for August. Set it up as a proper studio. Keep it as a reading room with nothing but books and afternoon light. It's large enough to be genuinely useful rather than decoratively mentioned in the listing.
Two bathrooms handle the practicalities well. The house has a garage and a separate workshop — the workshop alone will matter enormously to anyone who wants a serious hobby space or needs somewhere dry to store garden gear, bikes, and the kayaks that will inevitably accumulate once you discover the Dronne river valley. Parking is generous, which you'll appreciate when friends drive down from Paris or the UK in separate cars for a summer week.
The garden deserves a proper moment. Two and a half thousand square metres, fully fenced with an electric gate — private without being fortress-like. There's a large above-ground pool that gets real use from late May through September in this part of Charente, where summer temperatures regularly sit in the high twenties and nudge thirty in July and August. The centrepiece, though, is a centuries-old lime tree that occupies the far corner of the garden with the quiet authority of something that was here long before the house and will be here long after. In summer, lime trees in this region are covered in small yellow flowers that fill the air with a honey-like scent — it's one of those details you only appreciate once you've sat under one on a still afternoon. A private well feeds the garden irrigation, keeping water costs manageable even in a dry summer.
Montmoreau itself is the kind of village that international buyers hope to find but often don't: genuinely alive, not a pretty shell. There's a train station with connections toward Angoulême and Bordeaux, making it feasible to arrive without a car for short visits. Restaurants serve proper Charentais cooking — think duck confit cooked in the local style, moules à la crème, and the region's famous pineau des Charentes as an aperitif. The weekly market, typically held on Friday mornings, draws producers from the surrounding farms with cheese, honey, walnuts, and seasonal vegetables that make you rethink the concept of a supermarket.
Angoulême is about thirty minutes north by car or train — a real city with the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in late January (the world's second-largest comics festival, drawing over 200,000 visitors), a medieval upper town, and a growing food scene. Bordeaux is around ninety minutes south on the A10. Cognac, home to the distilleries of Hennessy, Rémy Martin, and Martell, is roughly forty-five minutes east — worth visiting not as a tourist tick-box but because the riverside town genuinely rewards an afternoon wander, and most distilleries offer serious guided tastings.
The Charente river itself is forty kilometres of calm water suited to canoes and flat-bottomed boats, with organised routes running through river towns like Jarnac and Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. Cycling infrastructure in this part of France has improved dramatically — the Avenue Verte and regional Voies Vertes connect villages through sunflower fields and river valleys on largely traffic-free paths. Autumn in the Charente is arguably the best season: harvest time in the cognac vineyards, warm days and cool evenings, mushroom hunting in the oak forests, and significantly fewer visitors than the Atlantic coast an hour west.
For international buyers, France's non-resident ownership structure is straightforward by European standards. EU and non-EU buyers alike can purchase without restriction, and the notaire system means the legal process is handled by a regulated public official rather than an adversarial negotiation between competing solicitors. Capital gains tax applies on resale with a sliding scale of reliefs from year five onward. The rental market in the Charente is growing — short-term vacation rentals in the region have seen sustained demand from British, Dutch, and Belgian buyers in particular, drawn by the drive-to accessibility from northern Europe via the Channel Tunnel or ferry.
For a holiday home in southwest France at this price point, with this much outdoor space, a pool, workshop, and a village with actual infrastructure on the doorstep — this one is genuinely worth the conversation.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms (3 standard bedrooms plus large music room/flex space)
- 2 bathrooms
- 130 m² interior living space
- 2,500 m² fully fenced garden with electric gate
- Large above-ground pool
- Centuries-old lime tree
- Private well for garden irrigation
- Garage and separate workshop
- Generous private parking
- Connected to public sewage system
- Walking distance to Montmoreau village centre
- Train station access in the village
- Good condition — move-in or rental ready
- Priced at €191,500
To arrange a viewing of this vacation home in Montmoreau or to ask specific questions about ownership as an international buyer, get in touch with the team at Homestra today. Properties at this price with this much land and this level of village amenity don't stay available long in the Charente — and once you've spent a morning under that lime tree, you'll understand exactly why.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 130m²
- Price per m²
- €1,473
- Garden size
- 2500m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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