6-Bed Gîte Complex with 3 Pools Near Domme – Dordogne Vacation Home



Domme, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France, La Roque-Gageac (France)
6 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 150m² Floor area
€536,842
House
No parking
6 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
150m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand on the terrace on a Tuesday morning in late June and you'll understand exactly why people keep coming back to this corner of the Dordogne. The medieval bastide of Domme rises above the river valley to the northwest, its golden limestone walls catching the first proper heat of the day. Swallows cut arcs over the gardens below. Somewhere between the lavender and the old walnut tree, a pool pump hums quietly to life. This is not a fantasy. This is what owning this three-property gîte complex in La Roque-Gageac actually looks like on a weekday.
The property sits on roughly three-quarters of an acre, a well-planted, private plot that took two decades to reach the kind of maturity most garden designers can only sketch on paper. Three independent houses, each around 50 square metres, each with its own pool, its own entrance, its own self-contained rhythm. Combined, they offer six bedrooms and three bathrooms across approximately 150 square metres of living space. The layout was conceived from the start with rental income in mind, and it has delivered exactly that for the current owners across nearly twenty years of operation.
Each house follows a sensible, practical floor plan: an open living and kitchen space of around 24 square metres, a shower room, a WC, and sleeping arranged partly in mansard-style upper rooms that children tend to adore. Reverse-cycle air source heat pumps handle both heating and cooling, which matters more than people expect — Périgord summers can push past 35°C, and October evenings carry a definite chill. These are not draughty stone barns waiting for a renovation budget. They are ready to work, move-in ready, and have been maintained by owners who clearly understood the guest experience.
From the plot, Domme is about fifteen minutes on foot — a walk that takes you up through sunflower fields and along a lane that smells of wild thyme in summer. Domme itself is classified among the Plus Beaux Villages de France, and rightly so. The bastide was founded in 1281 by Philip III of France. You walk through the original fortified gates, past the old market hall where the Saturday morning producers' market still sets up every week, and you arrive at a cliff-edge panorama over the river Dordogne that stops most people mid-sentence. It's one of those views that actually delivers on its reputation.
The village of Cénac is even closer and handles the practical side of daily life well — bakery, small supermarket, pharmacy, a couple of restaurants. For bigger shops, Sarlat-la-Canéda is roughly twenty minutes by car. Sarlat is the real cultural engine of the region: a medieval city so well-preserved that it doubles as a film set (it has been, repeatedly), with a Saturday market that stretches across several squares and stays busy from dawn until noon. You can spend an hour at a cheese stall alone. The foie gras, walnuts, truffles, and confit de canard aren't just ingredients here — they're social currency.
The Dordogne river corridor offers activity without effort. Canoe rental outfits operate between Argentat and Beynac all summer, with the La Roque-Gageac to Beynac stretch being the most popular half-day paddle — calm current, river beaches, medieval castles rising from the banks every few kilometres. The Château de Beynac and Château de Castelnaud face each other across the valley in a standoff that has lasted seven centuries. Cyclists use the Voie Verte trail network connecting the valley towns. Périgord Noir's hiking trails range from gentle riverside strolls to longer ridge walks above the valley that take most of a day.
Autumn is underrated here. The crowds thin after the French school holidays, the walnut harvest starts in October, and the truffle markets in Sarlat open from December through February. Owning a property in this region across multiple seasons is a genuinely different experience to a single summer visit.
For international buyers, the Dordogne has long been one of the most straightforward regions in France to purchase property, with a well-established community of British, Dutch, and Belgian second-home owners and a legal and notarial infrastructure that handles cross-border transactions routinely. Notaire fees typically run between 7 and 8% on top of the listed price — a standard consideration to factor into your budget. The region falls under the French Aquitaine property market, which has shown consistent resilience over the past two decades.
The rental income angle here is genuinely compelling. Three independent gîtes on one title, all with private pools and established gardens, in walking distance of one of the most visited villages in southwest France — this is the kind of setup that short-term rental platforms were built for. Management can be handled locally through any number of professional agencies operating in the Sarlat area, making hands-off ownership entirely viable for buyers based in the UK, Germany, or elsewhere in Europe. The current owners built this as a retirement-income vehicle and it performed. The next chapter is ready to begin.
Bergerac Airport is approximately 60 kilometres away, with direct flights operating from London Stansted, Bristol, Birmingham, and Edinburgh among others. Bordeaux-Mérignac, roughly 150 kilometres to the west, expands the range of connections considerably. Périgueux is accessible by rail from Paris Montparnasse via Bordeaux in around four hours.
Key features at a glance:
Three independent gîte houses, each approximately 50 square metres, on a single three-quarter-acre plot
Six bedrooms total across the three properties
Three bathrooms, one per house
Three private pools — each house has its own
Reverse-cycle air source heating and air conditioning throughout
Well-established private gardens with mature planting
Views toward the bastide of Domme from the plot
Fifteen-minute walk to Domme village and its weekly market
Direct access to Cénac village with shops, bakery, and services
Approximately twenty years of active rental history
Move-in ready condition — no renovation required
Strong short-term rental potential in one of France's most visited river valleys
Bergerac Airport approximately 60 kilometres away
20-minute drive to Sarlat-la-Canéda
If you have been thinking about a vacation home in the Dordogne that earns its keep when you're not there and gives you a reason to linger when you are, this is a serious property worth a serious look. Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing or to request the full information pack — an English-speaking advisor can walk you through the detail, the numbers, and the next steps at a pace that suits you.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 6
- Size
- 150m²
- Price per m²
- €3,579
- Garden size
- 7892m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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