5-Bed Perigourdine House with Heated Pool & 1.2ha Plot Near Bergerac



Bergerac, Aquitaine, 24100, France, Bergerac (France)
5 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 169m² Floor area
€477,000
House
No parking
5 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
169m²
No garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
On a Sunday morning in early October, you step out through the veranda doors into cool Dordogne air and the countryside rolls out in front of you — gold, amber, russet — all the way to the tree line. Not another rooftop in sight. No road noise. Just the faint cluck of distant farmland and the particular stillness that this corner of southwest France does better than almost anywhere in Europe. That's the daily reality of owning this five-bedroom Perigourdine house on its 1.2-hectare private plot just outside Bergerac.
This is a proper French country house — the kind that has real architectural bones. The thick stone walls, the pitched roof with dormer windows punching through the upper floor, the way the building sits low and confident in its landscape like it's been there for centuries. It has. But inside, a thoughtful renovation carried out in 2017 means you get all of that character without any of the headaches. The plumbing works. The kitchen is genuinely modern. You're not buying a renovation project — you're buying a house that's already done.
The ground floor is more generous than most. A 78-square-metre open-plan living space anchors the home — kitchen flowing into a dining area flowing into a sitting room, with a glazed veranda tacked on the end that catches the afternoon light. In the cooler months, that veranda becomes the best room in the house: warm, bright, watching the mist lift off the fields while you drink your second coffee. There are two bedrooms on this level as well, along with a shower room and WC, making the ground floor entirely self-sufficient if you want to host guests or eventually manage your mobility differently. A laundry room keeps the mess out of the main living spaces.
Upstairs, three more bedrooms — two of them proper attic rooms with dormer windows that frame those panoramic countryside views like paintings you never get tired of. A dressing room, a bathroom, and a separate WC complete the upper floor. Five bedrooms and two bathrooms across 169 square metres: that's a house that works for a large family, or for the kind of extended holiday gathering that turns into a yearly tradition.
Then there's the 9-by-4-metre heated swimming pool. Heated matters in the Dordogne — it extends your season from May into October without the shock of cold water cutting short an afternoon swim. The pool sits within the enclosed grounds, private and unhurried. And the 106-square-metre hangar is something many buyers overlook until they own it. It handles the cars, the garden equipment, the kayaks, the bicycles, the wine. It's the kind of practical bonus that makes rural French property ownership actually comfortable rather than just romantic.
The cul-de-sac position means no through traffic. Nobody's turning around in your driveway. In practical terms, this is as private as you can get without being genuinely remote.
Bergerac itself is a ten-minute drive — a riverside market town with a Wednesday and Saturday market at the Place de la République that pulls in everything from Périgord black truffles in winter to fat Dordogne strawberries in May. The old quarter around the Rue de la Résistance is genuinely walkable and genuinely alive, with restaurants serving duck confit, foie gras, and the kind of walnut salads that only make sense once you've tasted the Périgord variety. Wine is unavoidable: Bergerac's AOC vineyards produce both reds and the renowned Monbazillac dessert wine, golden and honeyed, best drunk cold with a slice of foie gras on a warm evening — a combination locals will tell you is non-negotiable.
The wider Dordogne valley is one of France's most layered landscapes. Drive twenty minutes east and you're looking at the medieval cliff-face village of La Roque-Gageac mirrored in the river below. Head north and the Château de Beynac lords it over a bend in the water. Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, officially classified among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France, is the kind of place you visit once and start calculating how to live closer to. The Vézère valley caves — Lascaux II at Montignac, Font-de-Gaume, Les Combarelles — put you within reach of some of Europe's most significant prehistoric art. These aren't tourist traps; they're genuinely moving experiences that draw visitors from across the world and give the region a cultural gravity that keeps its property values stable.
On the water, canoeing the Dordogne from Argentat down through Beaulieu and beyond is a multi-day adventure or a single lazy afternoon, depending on your ambitions. Fishing, wild swimming in clear river bends, cycling the valley paths on rented VTTs from Sarlat — the outdoor options here are enormous but unhurried. Nobody's rushing.
Bergerac-Roumanière Airport connects directly to London Stansted, Bristol, Southampton, and Edinburgh with Ryanair and other carriers, meaning door-to-door from the UK can be under four hours. Bordeaux is seventy kilometres to the west — a ninety-minute drive that puts you in one of France's great cities for a weekend, or at Bordeaux-Mérignac for international connections.
For international buyers, France's notaire system offers legal clarity and buyer protection that many European markets don't match. Property tax here runs at €2,192 per year — transparent and predictable. The Dordogne has long been one of the most established second-home markets in France for British, Dutch, and Belgian buyers, meaning rental management services, bilingual tradespeople, and expat community infrastructure are genuinely present, not just promised.
As a vacation rental, a five-bedroom house with a heated pool and this much land in the Dordogne can generate meaningful seasonal income — the region's July and August occupancy rates among quality rural properties are consistently high, with shoulder season increasingly active as remote workers extend their stays into September and October.
Key features at a glance:
- Five bedrooms across two floors including two dormer attic rooms with countryside views
- Two bathrooms plus two separate WCs
- 169 square metres of living space in a traditionally built, stone Perigourdine house
- 78-square-metre open-plan kitchen, dining, living room and glazed veranda
- 9m x 4m heated swimming pool within a 1.2-hectare fully enclosed private plot
- 106-square-metre hangar — ideal for vehicles, storage, or a workshop
- Fully renovated in 2017 to modern comfort standards
- Panoramic countryside views with no overlooking neighbours
- Private cul-de-sac position, end-of-road tranquility
- Ground floor is fully self-contained with two bedrooms and shower room
- Ten minutes from Bergerac town centre and its twice-weekly market
- Direct flight connections from Bergerac airport to multiple UK cities
- Annual property tax of €2,192
- Strong vacation rental potential in one of France's most visited rural regions
- Well-established second-home market with bilingual support services
If you've been watching the Dordogne market and waiting for a house that has real scale, real privacy, and real character without needing you to spend the first two summers fixing it — this is worth a serious look. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or to ask about financing, legal considerations for international buyers, or rental management options. The countryside isn't going anywhere, but this particular slice of it won't stay available for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 169m²
- Price per m²
- €2,822
- Garden size
- 5431m²
- Has Garden
- No
- 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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