8-Bed Stone Estate with Lauze Roof & 4 Rental Units – Vacation Home Near Laguiole, Aveyron



Midi-Pyrénées, Aveyron, Laguiole, France, Laguiole (France)
8 Bedrooms · 8 Bathrooms · 0m² Floor area
€735,000
House
Parking
8 Bedrooms
8 Bathrooms
0m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The first thing you notice on a clear morning is the silence. Not the absence of sound, but the particular hush of the Aubrac plateau — wind moving through high pastures, cowbells somewhere in the distance, and the faint smell of wild thyme warming up in the sun. This is what you wake up to when you own this eight-bedroom stone estate outside Laguiole, one of the most quietly compelling corners of southern France.
This is not a weekend renovation project. The property was fully restored in the 2010s with a level of care you rarely see — lauze stone roofing, underfloor heating powered by a solar heat pump, mountain-grade double-glazed windows, and Rockwool and wood fiber insulation that keeps the house cool in July and genuinely warm in January. The DPE rating is C, which in a stone building of this age and scale is a real achievement. Move-in condition is not a marketing phrase here. It's the reality.
The main residence alone spans over 270 square metres, converted from the original barn and stables with an open, light-filled layout that surprises people who expect old Aveyronnais farmhouses to feel dark and cramped. The ground floor kitchen was designed by someone who actually cooks — multiple openings, professional-grade finishes, and a setup that flows naturally into the vast living and dining area. There's a ground-floor bedroom with its own shower room, a pantry, and a separate toilet. Upstairs, the mezzanine leads to a master suite with a proper bathroom, a home office, a children's bedroom, and a fourth bedroom that can be connected either to the main house or to one of the adjoining rental units, depending on what you need it to be on any given day.
That flexibility is one of the most valuable things about this property. Beyond the main house, there are four fully independent rental units — each with its own entrance, its own outdoor space, and the kind of privacy that makes guests actually relax. Two units sit within the main barn structure: a three-bedroom apartment of 97 square metres and a one-bedroom at 48. Two more are in the outbuilding: a two-bedroom at 65 square metres and a 16-square-metre studio. All of them are turnkey. The solar panels feed back into the national grid under an annual resale contract, generating passive income on top of whatever you earn from rentals. The taxe foncière runs to around €1,400 per year, which is modest for a property of this scale.
The stone interior courtyard with its arched porch is the kind of space that becomes the beating heart of a summer gathering — evening aperitifs, long lunches that drift into the afternoon, children running laps while adults lose track of time. The garden is genuinely lush, there's a terrace with a BBQ setup, a working well, a tool shed, and a large double garage with sectional side-by-side doors. The infrastructure is in place. You bring the people.
Laguiole itself is less than ten minutes away, which sounds close and is close — close enough that you can get fresh bread and a coffee in the morning without making a journey of it, far enough that the estate feels genuinely rural. The town is famous throughout France for two things: the Laguiole knife, handcrafted there since the 19th century and still made by artisans on the Rue de la Forge, and Bras, the three-Michelin-star restaurant perched above the plateau that has become one of the great culinary pilgrimages of French gastronomy. A meal at Michel and Sébastien Bras's glass-walled dining room, with the Aubrac spread out below, is the kind of experience people travel to France specifically to have. Having it forty minutes from your front door is something else entirely.
The Aubrac plateau itself is extraordinary walking country — wide open, slightly otherworldly, with long-distance trails including sections of the GR65 Compostela pilgrim route passing through. In late May and early June, the transhumance festival sees thousands of cattle driven up to summer pastures in a tradition that draws crowds from across France. The Foire de la Saint-Matthieu in Laguiole each September is a genuine agricultural fair, not a tourist reconstruction. These rhythms matter if you want to understand what life in this part of Aveyron actually feels like.
Rodez, the prefecture of Aveyron and home to the remarkable Musée Soulages — dedicated to the abstract painter Pierre Soulages, born there in 1919 — is about an hour's drive south. Clermont-Ferrand, with direct TGV connections to Paris, is under two hours north. Aurillac airport serves seasonal routes. For buyers coming from the UK, Germany, or the Netherlands, the combination of road accessibility from Calais and reasonable flight options makes this part of France more reachable than it might appear on a map.
Climatically, the Aubrac sits at around 1,000 metres elevation. Summers are genuinely cool by French standards — warm enough to eat outside every evening, never oppressive. Winters are snowy and atmospheric, and the cross-country skiing at the nearby Brameloup station is a local secret that doesn't make it into many guides. Spring arrives slowly and greenly, and autumn turns the plateau a sequence of amber and rust colours that last for weeks.
For international buyers considering this as a second home in France, the property structure lends itself well to a hybrid model: personal use in the main residence while the four independent units generate rental income year-round, or short-term lets via platforms during the peak summer and skiing seasons. French property ownership rules for non-residents are straightforward, and this part of Aveyron has seen steady interest from buyers priced out of the Dordogne or the Lot without wanting to sacrifice authenticity.
Key features at a glance:
- 8 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms across the full estate
- Main residence of 270+ sqm, fully restored, move-in ready
- 4 independent rental units (3-bed, 1-bed, 2-bed, studio) all with private entrances
- Lauze stone roof and original stone architecture throughout
- Underfloor heating via solar heat pump in main house
- Solar panels with active grid-feed income contract
- DPE energy rating: C
- Mountain-grade double glazing, Rockwool and wood fiber insulation
- Air conditioning in main house and two rental units
- Compliant mains drainage and up-to-date electrical certification
- Stone interior courtyard with arched porch
- Working well, BBQ terrace, tool shed, double garage
- Under 10 minutes from Laguiole (shops, schools, services)
- Taxe foncière approximately €1,400/year
- 2D/3D floor plans, virtual tour, and full technical dossier available
This property is listed on Homestra at €735,000. Properties combining this scale, this condition, and this location in Aveyron are genuinely rare — the market here moves slowly, but the best ones don't wait. If you want to arrange a viewing, request the full file with floor plans and virtual tour, or simply ask a question about ownership as an international buyer, get in touch with the Homestra team today. We know this region well and we're happy to walk you through every detail.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 8
- Size
- 0m²
- Price per m²
- €∞
- Garden size
- 0m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- Yes
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 8
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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