6-Bed Farm with Two Gîtes & Heated Pool — Holiday Home in Cantal, Auvergne



Auvergne, Cantal, Lapeyrugue, France, Lapeyrugue (France)
6 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 192m² Floor area
€423,000
House
No parking
6 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
192m²
No garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
The first thing you notice on a summer morning here is the silence. Not the absence of sound, but a different kind of sound altogether — wind moving through oak and chestnut, the distant call of a buzzard riding thermals above the Goul valley, the faint creak of old timber in the barn warming up in the sun. From the terrace beside the heated pool, the Aubrac plateau stretches out across the horizon like something from a geological fever dream. Volcanic, ancient, unhurried. This is Cantal — one of the least-populated departments in France — and this particular farm, just ten minutes outside the village of Montsalvy, might be one of the most quietly compelling properties to come onto the market in the region.
Six bedrooms across three buildings. A 7m x 3.5m pool warmed by rooftop solar panels. Over eight hectares of woodland, old pasture, a spring, and a hiking path that cuts through your own land. Two fully fitted gîtes already generating — or ready to generate — rental income. This is a functioning small estate, not a project. The renovation work has been done. You're stepping into something operational.
The main house centres on a ground-floor open-plan kitchen and dining-living space with a wood burner that earns its keep from October through to April. The layout is practical and honest — no unnecessary flourishes, just solid stone and sensible proportions. Upstairs, two bedrooms. On the lower level, a third bedroom and a bathroom with separate WC. It's the kind of house where you lose track of time reading beside the fire with a glass of Marcillac, the local red wine made from the Fer Servadou grape that almost nobody outside the Aveyron and Cantal border has ever tasted. Worth seeking out.
The main gîte is the showstopper in terms of position. Its terrace directly overlooks the Goul valley, and on clear evenings the light over the Aubrac plateau does something extraordinary — it turns that volcanic grassland from green to amber to a deep bruised purple in the space of about twenty minutes. The gîte offers an open-plan kitchen-dining and living space at entrance level, one bedroom with en-suite shower on that same floor, and two further bedrooms below, each with their own en-suite shower and WC. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, independent access, valley views. Rental guests do not leave disappointed.
The third building, a converted bread-oven house, offers two additional bedrooms and a shower room. Add a small kitchen — a modest investment — and it becomes a fully independent second gîte. Right now it functions as supplementary accommodation, perhaps for overflow guests or extended family. The potential to monetise it further is straightforward and real.
Storage is genuinely abundant — two barns, a workshop in the lower section of the gîte building, and a wine cellar. On a property this size, in a region where wood-cutting, mushroom-picking (cèpes and girolles appear in September with almost theatrical reliability in these Cantal forests), and small-scale food production are simply part of rural life, that storage matters more than it might sound.
The eight-plus hectares of land mix wooded slopes with old pasture sections — remnants of the site's former life as a children's holiday camp, which also explains the few small outbuildings still dotted around the grounds. The hiking track that crosses the property gets little traffic, which in practice means you have the trail largely to yourself when you feel like a walk without getting in the car.
Montsalvy, a ten-minute drive, is more complete than most villages its size. Weekly market, boulangerie, pharmacy, doctors, a primary school, a supermarket, a handful of restaurants. The town hosts the Foire de la Saint-Martin each November, a proper agricultural fair with livestock, local producers, and more cheese than any reasonable person can evaluate in a single afternoon. From there, Aurillac — Cantal's main city — is about 45 minutes southwest, offering a wider range of services, the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie, the Aurillac International Street Theatre Festival in August (genuinely unmissable, genuinely strange, very French), and a train station with connections toward Clermont-Ferrand and beyond.
Seasonally, this area rewards every quarter. Spring brings wildflower meadows across the Aubrac — gentians, narcissus, wild orchids — and the famous transhumance, when cattle herds are moved to high pastures in a tradition that has run unbroken for centuries. Summer is cooler than most of southern France, typically 22-26°C, which is exactly why this region has always attracted walkers and cyclists. The GR65 pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela passes within accessible distance. Autumn is arguably the finest season — the chestnut and beech forests turn, the mushrooms emerge, and the light has a particular quality that makes amateur photographers look like professionals. Winter, with the Massif Central at your back, brings proper cold and real snow to the higher ground.
For international buyers, France remains one of Europe's most accessible property markets legally. EU and non-EU citizens can purchase without restriction, and the notaire system provides buyers with clear legal protections throughout the transaction. The Cantal property market is still genuinely affordable compared to better-known French regions — this is not the Dordogne or Provence — which means value per square metre and per hectare is exceptional. For buyers considering a mixed personal-use and rental model, French tax arrangements for meublé de tourisme classification offer favourable treatment of rental revenues. It's worth a conversation with a local accountant early in the process.
Key features at a glance:
- 6 bedrooms total across three separate buildings
- 1 main bathroom plus multiple en-suite shower rooms throughout the gîtes
- 192 sqm of living space across the estate
- Two operational or near-operational gîtes with independent access and rental income potential
- Heated swimming pool (7m x 3.5m) on wooden decking with Goul valley views
- Over 8 hectares of mixed woodland and pasture
- Mains water supply plus independent spring on the property
- Two barns, workshop, and wine cellar for storage
- Gas central heating (tank) and wood burner in main house
- Solar rooftop panels for pool heating
- Hiking trail running through the land
- 10 minutes from Montsalvy village with full services
- 45 minutes from Aurillac with rail connections
- Move-in ready condition — renovation already completed
A property like this one in the Cantal comes along rarely at this price point. The combination of usable land, multiple accommodation units, and that terrace view over the Aubrac plateau is not something you find easily — or affordably — anywhere else in France. If you're seriously considering a vacation home in Auvergne, a second home in rural France, or a small gîte business with genuine lifestyle credentials, this farm outside Lapeyrugue deserves your full attention.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request additional information, floorplans, and rental yield projections. Properties in Cantal at this level of completeness don't sit on the market for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 6
- Size
- 192m²
- Price per m²
- €2,203
- Garden size
- 9320m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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