5-Bed Stone House from 1638 in Rural Brittany – 10 Min from Pontivy, Morbihan



Brittany, Morbihan, Guern, France, Guern (France)
5 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 187m² Floor area
€258,900
House
No parking
5 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
187m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
On a Sunday morning in Guern, the first thing you notice is the silence — not emptiness, but the full, textured quiet of deep Breton countryside. Then a woodpigeon somewhere in the old oak at the garden's edge, and the smell of damp stone warming slowly in the early sun. This is a house that has been standing since 1638, and it feels it — in the best possible way.
Set on a landscaped plot of just under 2,900 square metres, this five-bedroom stone property sits about ten minutes outside Pontivy, a proper Breton market town with a canal, a Napoleonic street grid, and a covered market where you can buy andouille sausage, buckwheat flour, and raw-milk butter before nine in the morning. The house itself is the kind of place that makes you rethink what you thought you wanted from a French property. Forget the neat and the newly renovated. This is something older and more serious.
The oldest section of the main house dates to 1638, and the stonework shows it — thick walls that keep rooms cool through July, a majestic open fireplace beneath a soaring unceilinged section of the living room that turns even a grey November afternoon into something you want to linger in. The living space is generous and genuinely characterful, with an oak-floored mezzanine overhead that looks down over the room and gives the whole space a scale you rarely find in this price bracket. Below, the kitchen connects through to a back kitchen and laundry room — the kind of practical layout that makes a big house actually liveable, not just impressive to photograph.
There are two independent entrances to the main house, which opens up real flexibility. One side handles the social, day-to-day flow — kitchen, back kitchen, living room with the fireplace — while the other leads into the sleeping wing: one bedroom, a bathroom, and a WC on the ground floor. Upstairs, once you're on the mezzanine level with its concrete slab and oak flooring, a second large bedroom with a sink sits to one side, and a hallway serves three more bedrooms and a second bathroom with toilet on the other. Five bedrooms in total. One bathroom downstairs, one up. For a property at this price in Morbihan, that bedroom count is genuinely hard to beat.
The small continuous duplex section — formerly an office — sits at one end and adds further flexibility, whether you want a home workspace, a private guest space, or simply a room that works differently from the others. At the far end of the building, a cellar. Useful for wine, for storage, for the kind of quiet domestic practicality that old French houses handle so well.
Outside, beyond the main house, a stone outbuilding with a slate roof adds significant potential — workshops, a gîte conversion, additional storage, a studio. The planning possibilities here are worth exploring with a local architect, and Morbihan's rural building regulations, while not trivial, have accommodated countless such conversions over the years. The landscaped grounds include a well, mature planting, and enough space to feel genuinely private without tipping into the overwhelming.
Guern itself is a small commune of a few hundred people, the sort of place where the boulangerie knows your order by your third visit and the local Fest-Noz — the traditional Breton night festival of music and dance — is still a real community event, not a tourist attraction. The surrounding Blavet valley offers some of the best cycling and walking in inland Brittany, with the Blavet river towpath running for kilometres through woodlands and past working locks. In autumn, the forests around Pontivy turn a deep copper-orange, and the fishing is excellent. In summer, the Atlantic coast — Belle-Île, the Gulf of Morbihan, the beaches around Carnac — is under an hour away by car.
Pontivy, your nearest town, has everything a second home owner needs without the fuss of a larger city: supermarkets, hardware stores, a hospital, good restaurants serving galettes and Breton cider, a Sunday market, and a genuine sense of place. Rennes, the regional capital, is about an hour's drive, with a TGV connection that puts Paris Saint-Lazare under two hours away. Lorient has a commercial airport with seasonal connections, and Brest is also within comfortable range.
The Morbihan property market has attracted consistent interest from British, Dutch, Belgian, and increasingly American buyers over the past decade, drawn by the combination of accessible prices, legal straightforwardness, and genuine quality of life. For international buyers purchasing through a French notaire, the process is well-worn and well-supported locally — your Homestra advisor can connect you with English-speaking notaires and surveyors who handle cross-border transactions regularly. Non-EU buyers should note that France imposes no restrictions on foreign property ownership, and the tax framework for second homes — while worth understanding in detail — is broadly manageable with proper advice.
At 258,900 euros for 187 square metres of characterful stone house, a slate-roofed outbuilding, a well, and nearly 3,000 square metres of land, this is a property that offers real substance. It's in good condition — not a ruin requiring heroic investment, but an older house with the honest wear of a building that's been lived in and maintained. There's room to modernise thoughtfully, and room to leave well alone. That balance is rare.
Key features at a glance:
- Five-bedroom stone house with origins dating to 1638
- Total living area of approximately 187 square metres
- Large living room with majestic open fireplace and soaring unceilinged section
- Oak-floored mezzanine overlooking the main living space
- Two independent entrances offering flexible layout options
- Small duplex section, formerly an office — adaptable to various uses
- Slate-roofed stone outbuilding with conversion potential
- Traditional well and landscaped grounds of approximately 2,857 m²
- Cellar for storage or wine
- 10 minutes from Pontivy with full range of amenities
- Under one hour from the Gulf of Morbihan and Atlantic beaches
- Access to Blavet valley cycling and walking routes
- TGV access via Rennes (approx. 1 hour by car)
- No restrictions on foreign ownership in France
- Priced at 258,900 euros — strong value for size and character in Morbihan
If this property has caught your attention, the next step is straightforward. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing — whether in person or via a live video walkthrough for international buyers who want to get a real feel before travelling. Properties with this combination of age, scale, land, and price in Morbihan don't sit on the market for long. The stone has been here since 1638. The opportunity, however, is right now.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 187m²
- Price per m²
- €1,384
- Garden size
- 2885m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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