5-Bed Stone House from 1638 Near Pontivy – Brittany Country Holiday Home



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 only sounds are the wind moving through the old oak at the edge of the garden and the distant bell from the village church carrying across the fields. You're standing at the kitchen window of a house that has been standing since 1638, watching mist lift off the Morbihan countryside, and thinking you could get used to this. Really get used to this.
This five-bedroom stone property sits just ten minutes from Pontivy, a proper Breton market town with a working canal, a 15th-century château, and Saturday markets where the cheese vendor knows everyone by name. Guern itself is a quiet rural commune — the kind of place where neighbors wave from tractors and the post arrives without fail. At 187 square metres of living space on a landscaped plot of around 2,857 m², this is a genuinely substantial home, not a weekend cottage. It has real scale, real history, and the kind of bones you simply cannot manufacture.
The oldest section of the main house traces back nearly four centuries. You feel that age in the best possible way — in the weight of the stone walls, the depth of the window reveals, the massive fireplace that anchors the double-height living room. That fireplace isn't decorative. Light it on a November evening with a bottle of Muscadet and a cassoulet on the hob, and you understand exactly why the French have been doing this for hundreds of years. The living room's unceilinged section creates genuine drama, with the mezzanine above looking down over the space — a reading corner, a desk, a spot for teenagers who want to feel separate without being far away.
The ground floor layout is practical in a way old farmhouses often aren't. Two independent entrances give the house real flexibility — one leads through to the kitchen, back kitchen, and laundry room, the other to a bedroom wing with its own bathroom and toilet. That separation matters. It means visiting family or long-stay guests can have genuine privacy. The kitchen isn't a showpiece renovation — it's a working kitchen with a back kitchen, which in this part of France is exactly right. Brittany is serious about its food, and you'll want the counter space.
Upstairs, concrete slab construction and oak flooring give the upper level a solidity that doesn't creak or flex. The large mezzanine bedroom with a sink sits above the living room, while a hallway on the opposite side connects three further bedrooms, creating a sleeping wing that works for a family or a group of friends without anyone being on top of each other. Five bedrooms across a house this age — it's a rare configuration.
Then there's the outbuilding. Stone-built, slate-roofed, full of potential. Spaces like this are why buyers come to rural Brittany and stay. A workshop, a studio, a gîte conversion — planning regulations in Morbihan have become more navigable in recent years, and outbuildings of this quality are genuine opportunities. A stone well completes the picture, sitting in the landscaped garden like something from a Flaubert novel.
Brittany rewards the buyers who actually use their property across all four seasons. Summer is the obvious draw — the Gulf of Morbihan is forty-five minutes south, with the sailing, the island ferries to Île-aux-Moines, the oyster shacks at Locmariaquer where you eat straight from the shell with a glass of Gros Plant. But September in the Morbihan countryside is arguably better: the light turns amber, the crowds vanish, and the forests around the Blavet valley shift colour quietly. The Blavet river itself, running close to Pontivy, has towpath cycling routes that stretch for kilometres without a car in sight. In winter, the stone walls of this house do exactly what they were built to do — hold the heat, keep the cold out, make staying in feel like the sensible and entirely comfortable choice.
Pontivy's weekly markets — Mondays and Saturdays — are not tourist markets. They're for buying vegetables and talking to the man who grew them. The town has a solid restaurant scene along the canal, including a handful of spots where the set lunch menu changes daily and costs less than a London sandwich. Saint-Nicolas-des-Eaux, a few kilometres east along the Blavet, has a small beach and a favourite local crêperie. These aren't destinations you find in glossy travel guides. They're the places locals point you toward when they decide you're worth the tip.
For international buyers, the practicalities here are straightforward. Rennes Airport is roughly an hour away, with regular Transavia and Volotea connections to the UK and beyond. Lorient Airport offers a closer alternative. The TGV from Paris Montparnasse reaches Lorient in around three hours. Morbihan has seen consistent interest from British, Dutch, and German buyers over the past decade, and rural properties at this price point — a five-bedroom stone farmhouse with outbuilding and land, in good condition, under €260,000 — are genuinely scarce. The French market at this level has held firm, and properties with this configuration tend to sell to the first serious buyer who shows up with a survey booked.
The house is in good condition. It is not a ruin requiring imagination and a contractor's phone number. That matters. The floors are down, the roof is on, the rooms are liveable. A buyer could spend the first summer here — properly here, not camping in a building site — and address cosmetic updates over subsequent seasons at their own pace.
Key features at a glance:
- Five-bedroom stone farmhouse dating to 1638, 187 m² of living space
- Plot of approximately 2,857 m², landscaped grounds with well
- Large double-height living room with original stone fireplace
- Oak-floored mezzanine overlooking the main living space
- Two independent ground-floor entrances for layout flexibility
- Kitchen with dedicated back kitchen and laundry room
- Bedroom wing with bathroom and toilet on ground floor
- Three further bedrooms and second bathroom upstairs
- Stone outbuilding with slate roof — conversion potential
- Small duplex section, formerly used as an office
- Cellar at the far end of the main building
- Ten minutes from Pontivy, 45 minutes from the Gulf of Morbihan
- Good condition — habitable now, with scope for personalisation
- Within reach of Rennes Airport (approx. 1 hour) and Lorient Airport
- Strong rental appeal as a Brittany countryside holiday home
For buyers considering this as a second home in France, a vacation base for extended family, or a future gîte project, this property covers an unusual amount of ground at this price. Properties with this kind of history, this kind of outbuilding, and this much space rarely sit on the market for long in Morbihan.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing. The countryside around Guern looks particularly good in person.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 187m²
- Price per m²
- €1,384
- Garden size
- 2857m²
- 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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