8-Bed Stone Farmhouse Estate with Pool & 4.7 Hectares in Dordogne, France



Aquitaine, Dordogne, St-Cyprien, France, Cazals (France)
8 Bedrooms · 5 Bathrooms · 375m² Floor area
€798,000
House
No parking
8 Bedrooms
5 Bathrooms
375m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand at the end of the private driveway on a still Tuesday morning and what hits you first isn't the view — it's the quiet. Not the dead quiet of an empty house, but the alive kind: birdsong over the orchard, the soft sound of water from a natural spring somewhere in the meadow, a breeze moving through the old oak at the edge of the woodland. This is Cazals country, deep in the Périgord Noir, and this eight-bedroom farmhouse estate is the kind of property that makes people stop scrolling.
Nearly 4.7 hectares of meadow, orchard, and woodland wrap around a collection of eight stone buildings that have been part of this valley for generations. The roofs have been recently overhauled — no small investment on a compound this size — and the main house has been fully renovated without losing the bones that make it worth preserving. Wide-plank floors. Fireplaces that actually get used. A reading room on the upper floor with large corner bay windows that frame the surrounding parkland like a painting you never get tired of looking at. On grey November afternoons, that room becomes the entire reason you bought the place.
The main house runs to approximately 260 square metres across three levels. The garden floor opens with a proper entrance hall — the kind that sets a tone before anyone's seen a single room — leading through to a living room with fireplace, a separate kitchen, and a dining room with its own fireplace. Two bedrooms and a study sit at this level too, along with a bathroom. Upstairs, three guest suites each have their own shower room and WC, so visiting families aren't negotiating bathroom schedules at 8am. A fourth bedroom and that extraordinary reading room complete the first floor. Above it all, the attic spans the full footprint of the house, structurally sound and wide open to whatever you want it to become — a studio, a games room, two more bedrooms, a gym. The bones are there.
Separate from the main house sits a fully renovated guest cottage. Ground floor: open-plan living, kitchen, dining, one bedroom, shower room. First floor: a generous second bedroom. Guests or family get genuine independence, and if you ever decide to run the property as a holiday rental business — which this estate is frankly built for — the cottage becomes a self-contained income-generating unit from day one.
Outside, a heated 10 x 5 metre pool anchors the garden, and a large covered terrace extends the living space outdoors through every season. In July, you eat dinner outside every night. In October, you have lunch out there with a jacket on. The setup rewards that kind of use.
Then there are the outbuildings. More than 800 square metres of usable space: a stone agricultural barn of around 400 square metres, two additional stone barns, a wine storehouse, a small barn, former stables, a sheepfold, and an original bread oven. For a buyer with a vision — equestrian centre, gîte complex, working farm, wine production, artist residency — this is the raw material of something serious. The infrastructure already exists. You're not starting from scratch; you're redirecting something that has been functioning on this land for a very long time.
Two separate water systems serve the property: mains water and natural spring water. For a holding of this scale, that redundancy isn't a luxury — it's a practical necessity and a genuine selling point.
This is the Dordogne, which means the landscape running south toward the Lot and east toward Sarlat is genuinely one of the most visited rural regions in France — and for good reason. The Vézère Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage corridor, sits within easy reach, along with the painted caves of Font-de-Gaume near Les Eyzies, the medieval perched village of Domme above the river, and the Saturday market in Sarlat-la-Canéda, where truffle season from November through February turns the Place de la Liberté into something you have to experience at least once. Duck confit, foie gras, walnut oil pressed in local mills — these aren't restaurant concepts here, they're what you buy from the woman three stalls over from the cheese man.
St-Cyprien itself, just minutes from the estate, has a covered market hall that runs weekly and a 12th-century Augustinian abbey that dominates the hilltop skyline. The town is small but functional — pharmacy, bakery, restaurants, wine shop — everything you need without the tourist congestion of Sarlat on a summer Saturday.
Outdoor life here is four-season and genuinely varied. The Dordogne river runs canoe routes from Argentat down through Beynac-et-Cazenac, past limestone cliffs and fortified castles you paddle beneath rather than read about. Cycling routes fan out through quiet lanes connecting bastide towns — Belvès, Monpazier, Villefranche-du-Périgord — where the weekly markets are still primarily for locals. Fishing the Dordogne tributaries is a serious pursuit, not just a pastime. Spring brings wildflowers across the meadows; autumn turns the woodland around the property copper and gold, with cèpe mushrooms appearing in the undergrowth if you know where to look.
Getting here is straightforward enough for an international second home. Bergerac Airport, served by multiple UK and European carriers including Ryanair and Jet2, sits roughly 50 kilometres northwest. Bordeaux-Mérignac is 130 kilometres, with far greater international connectivity — direct flights to New York, the Middle East, and across Europe. By road, the A89 links Bordeaux to the region in under two hours. TGV trains from Paris Gare de Montparnasse reach Bordeaux in just over two hours, and from there it's a straightforward drive south.
For international buyers, France's legal framework for property purchase is well-established. Non-EU buyers face no restrictions on property ownership. The notaire system provides a high level of transactional security, and purchase costs — including notaire fees and taxes — typically run 7 to 8 percent on top of the sale price for older properties. An annual taxe foncière of €2,366 is already known for this estate. For rental income, France has clear short-term rental regulations, and a property of this scale and rural setting is well-suited to the premium gîte and agritourism market that continues to grow across the Périgord. Properly managed, the guest cottage and potentially further converted outbuildings could generate meaningful income during the 20 or so weeks you're not there yourself.
Key features at a glance:
- 8 bedrooms across the main house and fully renovated guest cottage
- 5 bathrooms, with three en-suite guest suites in the main house
- Approximately 375 sqm total living space; main house approx. 260 sqm
- 4.7 hectares of meadow, woodland, orchard, pond (approx. 1,500 sqm), and natural springs
- Heated 10 x 5 metre swimming pool
- Large covered terrace of 100 sqm
- Eight buildings in excellent structural condition with recently renovated roofs
- 800+ sqm of outbuildings including agricultural barn, stone barns, wine storehouse, former stables, sheepfold, and bread oven
- Dual water supply: mains water and natural spring water
- Full attic with strong conversion potential
- Well and natural pond on the grounds
- Living room 59 sqm with fireplace
- Annual property tax €2,366
- Listed at €798,000 — priced for a compound of this scale and condition
Properties like this — eight buildings, nearly five hectares, fully renovated, with this quality of outbuildings — do not come along often in the Périgord Noir. The Dordogne market remains one of the most resilient rural markets in France, with consistent demand from British, Dutch, Belgian, and increasingly American buyers who understand what this kind of setting is worth. At this price point for what's on offer, the conversation is worth having sooner rather than later.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a private viewing or to request the full property dossier. Our team can connect you with English-speaking notaires, local property managers, and specialists in French rural property acquisition to make your purchase as straightforward as possible.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 8
- Size
- 375m²
- Price per m²
- €2,128
- Garden size
- 47330m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 5
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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