5-Bed 19th-Century Farmhouse with Pool, Barn & 13 Hectares in Lot-et-Garonne



Aquitaine, Lot-et-Garonne, Beauville, France, Beauville (France)
5 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 251m² Floor area
€649,000
House
No parking
5 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
251m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a still July morning in Beauville, the kitchen window frames a view that looks like it was painted rather than photographed — rolling hills striped with sunflower fields, a pocket of woodland, a sky so blue it almost seems theatrical. You make coffee on the balcony off the main kitchen and hear nothing except wind moving through the linden trees below. No traffic. No sirens. Just that particular French country quiet that city people pay a lot of money to find, and usually don't.
This is a rare one. A 19th-century stone house built for a local merchant who clearly had opinions — Bordeaux-faced stone door surrounds, hand-cut corner stones, proportions that tell you the builder wasn't cutting corners in any direction. The property has been in the hands of owners who understood what they had, and the restoration they've carried out is the kind that respects original character rather than erasing it. Exposed limestone walls, heavy timber beams, terracotta-tiled floors worn smooth by a couple of centuries of footsteps. It feels old in the right way — solid, warm, rooted.
The main house runs across 251 square metres and lives well across its five bedrooms. The sitting room anchors the ground floor, large and unhurried, centred on a log-burning stove that earns its keep from October through to March when the Lot-et-Garonne mornings carry a real bite. The fitted kitchen is modern in the practical sense — properly equipped, well-designed — and opens onto a balcony where the habit of morning coffee will become a daily ritual you'll plan your whole schedule around. Double glazing throughout, solar panels, a heat pump, and oil heating mean running costs are sensible and the property is comfortable in every season, not just the postcard weeks of August.
Below the main living quarters, the vast ground floor is one of the property's most interesting practical assets. Currently used for storage and workshop space, it has the bones and the ceiling height to become a separate apartment or a generous suite of guest rooms. The conversion potential here is genuine, not just estate-agent optimism — the structure is already there, the space is already there, and planning in rural Lot-et-Garonne for this type of outbuilding conversion is generally straightforward.
Then there's the second small house on the grounds, which changes the calculation entirely for buyers thinking about rental income or multigenerational living. A large barn provides garaging for four cars plus a tractor hangar — useful if you're farming or simply want proper covered storage for equipment and vehicles. And the swimming pool, built within the preserved ruins of an old stone outbuilding, is the kind of feature that makes people stop scrolling. It's genuinely one of the most considered pool settings in the area: the old stone walls give it shade and enclosure, the ruin itself becoming architecture rather than an eyesore, and the whole composition feels like something from a Provençal design magazine.
The 13 hectares of land breaks into two distinct characters. Three hectares immediately surrounding the property have been developed over years into what serious gardeners will immediately recognise as the work of someone who really knew what they were doing — established specimen trees, mature plantings, two natural water sources, all of it maintained to a high standard. The remaining ten hectares are actively farmed, which keeps the land productive, tidy, and — depending on your arrangement with the current farmer — potentially income-generating.
Beauville sits in the Lot-et-Garonne department, a part of southwest France that doesn't get the same tourist attention as the Dordogne to the north or the Gers to the south, which means property prices remain lower and the villages still feel like actual villages. The summer marchés nocturnes in the surrounding communes — Tournon-d'Agenais, Penne-d'Agenais, Villeréal — draw locals more than tour buses, and the foie gras, pruneaux d'Agen, and Côtes du Marmandais wine you'll find at them are the real article. The outdoor market at Villeneuve-sur-Lot on Tuesdays and Saturdays is worth the twenty-minute drive for the cheese alone.
Agen, about 25 to 30 minutes by car, is more useful than its modest size suggests. It has a TGV station with direct high-speed rail to Paris in under three hours, which transforms this rural retreat into a plausible primary residence for remote workers or a genuinely accessible second home for buyers based in London, Amsterdam, or Brussels. Toulouse is 90 minutes away and has an international airport with connections across Europe. Bordeaux, about two hours northwest, opens up wine-country day trips and another major transport hub.
The seasons here are worth understanding before you buy. Summers are long, dry, and reliably warm — Lot-et-Garonne averages over 2,000 hours of sunshine annually, putting it firmly in the south French sun category without the savage August heat of the Mediterranean coast. The Garonne valley creates a slightly moderated microclimate. Autumn brings the vendange, walnut harvests, the particular amber light that photographers chase across Gascony. Winter is mild by northern European standards, with frosty mornings rather than heavy snowfall, and spring arrives early — usually by March the countryside is already running green.
For buyers considering this as a vacation home with rental potential, the numbers deserve attention. Gîte tourism in southwest France is well-established and demand-tested. A property of this scale — main house, second dwelling, pool — with the accessibility of a nearby TGV link has genuine weekly rental appeal for the French family market as well as British and Dutch visitors who have been coming to this corner of France for decades. A professional rental management arrangement would allow hands-off income generation during weeks you're not in residence.
Key features at a glance:
- 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms across 251 square metres in the main house
- 19th-century stone construction with original beams, stonework, and terracotta floors
- Fully restored by current owners; double glazing, solar panels, heat pump, oil heating
- Modern fitted kitchen opening to a private balcony with countryside views
- Large sitting room with working log-burning stove
- Vast ground-floor space with apartment conversion potential
- Separate second small house — ideal for guests, rental, or multigenerational use
- Large barn with garaging for 4 cars and tractor storage
- Swimming pool set within preserved stone ruins — architecturally unique
- 13 hectares total: 3 hectares of mature garden with specimen trees and 2 water sources; 10 hectares farmed
- 5 minutes to villages with restaurants, shops, and summer night markets
- 25–30 minutes to Agen with TGV Paris service
- 90 minutes to Toulouse International Airport
- 2 hours to Bordeaux
- Strong vacation rental potential; established gîte market in the region
This is the kind of property that doesn't come up often — not because that's something copywriters say, but because the combination of an authentically restored 19th-century main house, a second dwelling, serious outbuildings, a pool this considered, and 13 productive hectares at this price point in southwest France is objectively uncommon. The Lot-et-Garonne is still one of the better-value pockets of rural France for buyers who do their research.
If you'd like to arrange a viewing or get further details on the property, the land arrangements, or the rental potential, get in touch with the team at Homestra. This one rewards a visit in person — photographs do it partial justice at best.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 251m²
- Price per m²
- €2,586
- Garden size
- 14m²
- 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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