5-Bed Stone Village House with Pool & Garden in Puy-l'Évêque, Lot – Second Home



Midi-Pyrénées, Lot, Puy-l'Évêque, France, Puy-l'Évêque (France)
5 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 306m² Floor area
€448,000
House
Parking
5 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
306m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Puy-l'Évêque sounds like this: church bells rolling down from the medieval tower, the distant clatter of the weekly market on the square, and the faint smell of woodsmoke drifting across stone rooftops that have been standing since the 13th century. You're in the kitchen of a house built in 1887, coffee in hand, sunlight cutting through the original glazed vestibule and landing in stripes across the flagstone floor. This is the kind of morning people drive thousands of miles — or book a flight to Cahors — to find.
Puy-l'Évêque sits high on a limestone cliff above the Lot River, one of those Quercy villages that somehow stayed real. It didn't get polished into a tourism showpiece. The boulangerie on Rue du Dr Malbet still sells the same walnut bread it always has. The Tuesday market brings farmers from the surrounding causse with duck confit, aged Rocamadour cheese, and Malbec from the Cahors appellation — vineyards that start just minutes outside the village limits. The Lot Valley is serious wine country, and if you're here in October during harvest, you'll understand why locals don't leave.
This five-bedroom stone house sits at the center of that village, not on the periphery. You walk out the front door and you're already in it — the rhythm of Puy-l'Évêque life, the café terraces, the medieval lanes, the river views from the promontory a few minutes on foot. But step back inside and shut the electric gate and the outside world drops away entirely.
The house itself is the result of a careful, expensive renovation carried out by owners who clearly lived here rather than just owning it. They kept the stone staircase — a genuinely handsome piece of 19th-century craftsmanship that anchors the entrance hall — and they kept the original fireplaces in the bedrooms, each one different, each one worth preserving. The glazed vestibule at the top of that staircase is one of those period details you don't see anymore: decorative ironwork, original glass, completely intact. Five bedrooms, three bathrooms, 306 square metres across multiple floors, and a layout that works equally well for a family of five or a group of friends mixing long lunches with lazy afternoons by the pool.
The top floor is where the renovation really shows its ambition. Exposed limestone walls, heavy timber beams, a sitting room that the current owners use as a cinema space. On a hot July afternoon — and July in the Lot regularly hits 30°C and above — this room stays cool behind thick stone walls while the pool below catches the full afternoon sun. That pool, by the way, is a proper 10 by 5 metre saltwater pool, fenced, surrounded by mature trees that give just enough shade. The garden is generous by village standards, with the kind of established planting that takes decades to grow and can't be replicated with a landscaper and a budget.
Beyond the main house, a large garage block includes workshop space, covered terraces, and a summer kitchen that's been set up properly — meaning there's a pizza oven and a bar, not a portable grill and a folding table. The covered parking area has electric gates. These are the practical details that matter when you're not there full-time: security, storage, and space to host properly when you are.
The Lot Valley gives you four genuinely different seasons. Spring brings wildflowers across the causse limestone plateau and the first canoe trips down the river between Cahors and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie — one of the most dramatic stretches of river in southern France. Summer is long lunches and market visits and evenings that don't cool down until well after nine. Autumn is truffles and harvest and the kind of golden light that makes the valley look like a painting. Winter in Puy-l'Évêque is quiet, cold enough for fires, mild enough to still walk the GR36 trail through the Lot gorge on a clear afternoon.
Cahors, the departmental capital, is 30 kilometres east — about 25 minutes by car. It has a train station with direct TGV links to Paris Austerlitz (around five hours), a hospital, a good food market on Wednesday and Saturday, and the Pont Valentré, a 14th-century fortified bridge that's been standing longer than most European cities. Bergerac Airport is roughly an hour west; Toulouse-Blagnac, the major regional hub, is just under two hours south.
For international buyers considering a holiday property in the Lot or a second home in southwest France, this market has shown consistent appeal. The Quercy region draws buyers from the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scandinavia precisely because it offers what the Dordogne offered thirty years ago — authenticity, space, real village life — without the premium prices or the tourist congestion. A property of this size, in this condition, in the centre of an established village with a pool and outbuildings, represents a category that rarely comes to market here.
Rental potential is real. The Lot Valley attracts visitors from spring through October, and a five-bedroom house with a pool in a medieval village commands strong weekly rates. Property management services operate throughout the region for owners who aren't on-site year-round, handling everything from key exchange to pool maintenance.
Key features at a glance:
- 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms across 306 square metres of living space
- Stone village house built 1887, extensively renovated, in good condition
- Original glazed vestibule, stone staircase, and period fireplaces throughout
- Open-plan ground floor living room and kitchen with fitted units
- Top floor sitting room with exposed stonework and beams
- 10 x 5 metre saltwater swimming pool, fenced, with mature garden
- Summer kitchen with pizza oven and bar area
- Large garage block with workshop and covered terraces
- Off-road paved parking with electric gates
- Double glazing and oil central heating
- Central village location — market, café, river promontory all walkable
- Far-reaching views over the Lot Valley countryside
- 30 minutes from Cahors TGV station, 1 hour from Bergerac Airport
- Cahors AOC wine country immediately surrounding the village
- Strong holiday rental market across the spring-to-autumn season
If you've been thinking seriously about a second home in France — specifically the kind that rewards you with village life rather than resort anonymity — this house in Puy-l'Évêque is worth your full attention. Get in touch with the team at Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full property dossier. Properties like this don't sit on the market long in this part of the Lot.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 306m²
- Price per m²
- €1,464
- Garden size
- 3464m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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