Renovated 4-Bed Farmhouse with Barn & Bread Oven – Vacation Home in Savigné, Vienne



Poitou-Charentes, Vienne, Savigné, France, Savigné (France)
4 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 130m² Floor area
€275,600
House
No parking
4 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
130m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Savigné, and the kitchen window is open. The smell of coffee mixes with cut grass drifting in from the meadow out back. Nobody's in a hurry. That's kind of the whole point.
This former farmhouse in the Vienne département of Poitou-Charentes has been fully renovated and is move-in ready — no months of waiting on contractors, no difficult decisions about plumbing layouts. Someone has already done the hard work. What you walk into is 130 square metres of comfortable, liveable space that still carries the bones and character of a proper French country property: thick stone walls, outbuildings with real agricultural history, a bread oven that looks like it belongs on a postcard, a barn with a stable, and a former henhouse that has quietly been waiting for someone with imagination to figure out what it wants to be next.
The ground floor is practical without being cramped. The kitchen is fully equipped and opens directly into the dining and living area, which means the cook never gets exiled to a separate room while everyone else talks. There's a bedroom on this level too, with its own dressing room — useful if you have guests who'd rather not tackle stairs, or if you want to turn the upper floor into a private retreat entirely your own. A shower room, WC, and a boiler room round out the ground floor.
Upstairs, a landing connects three further bedrooms and a second shower room with WC. Four bedrooms in total is a generous count for a French country house in this price range — enough for a family and a couple of friends, or enough to make short-term rental a genuine option during the weeks you're not here.
Then there's the land. The enclosed garden is the kind of space where afternoon becomes evening without anyone noticing. Beyond it, the meadow stretches out — genuinely useful if you have horses or simply want a buffer between yourself and the rest of the world. The outbuildings alone would have sold this property in another era. The barn is substantial. The bread oven is in good condition, which in rural France means something: it's not decorative, it can actually be fired up. If you've ever wanted to bake a proper sourdough loaf the way it was done here two hundred years ago, that becomes a real weekend activity rather than a fantasy.
Savigné itself sits in one of those parts of France that international buyers are only now beginning to pay serious attention to, which means prices here still reflect reality rather than reputation. The Vienne is gentle countryside — rolling fields, sunflowers in summer, the occasional château visible from a departmental road, rivers where you can actually swim. The nearest market town, Civray, is just a short drive and holds a regular market where the chèvre and the walnuts come from farms you can name. Poitiers, with its high-speed TGV connection to Paris (under 1h30) and its remarkable medieval centre including the Notre-Dame-la-Grande basilica and the Futuroscope technology park on the edge of the city, is roughly 50 kilometres north. Angoulême, famous for its international comics festival every January and its old town perched on a hill above the Charente river, sits around 70 kilometres to the southwest.
The climate here is Atlantic with a southern lean — proper summers that run hot and long from June through September, mild springs that turn the fields bright green almost overnight, and winters that are cool but rarely brutal. This is the kind of place where you can genuinely eat outside from April through October, which changes how you use a property entirely.
The Vienne river valley offers cycling routes that run for days without repeating themselves, and the GR48 long-distance trail cuts through the wider Charentes region for serious walkers. The Marais Poitevin, sometimes called the Green Venice of France, is around 80 kilometres to the west — a maze of navigable waterways through marshland that's unlike anywhere else in the country. On a hot August afternoon, hiring a flat-bottomed boat and drifting through it is as good as it sounds.
For international buyers, France's legal framework around property ownership is well established and transparent. Non-EU buyers face no restrictions on purchasing residential property here. The price point — 275,600 euros for a fully renovated four-bedroom farmhouse with outbuildings and land — sits considerably below equivalent properties in better-known regions like the Dordogne or Provence, while offering comparable quality of life. Agency fees are covered by the seller, which simplifies the cost calculation on your end.
Rental potential is real. The combination of rural authenticity, generous sleeping capacity, and unusual features like the bread oven and barn appeal to the kind of holiday renters who've run out of interest in holiday parks and want something that feels like an actual place. Platforms like Gîtes de France actively support rural properties in the Vienne, and the regional tourism board invests year-round in bringing visitors to the area.
Key features at a glance:
- Fully renovated former farmhouse, move-in ready, 130 sq m of living space
- 4 bedrooms across two floors, ideal for families or rental use
- Ground-floor bedroom with dressing room, suited for accessibility or private suite arrangements
- 2 shower rooms, 2 WCs across both floors
- Fully equipped kitchen open to dining and living area
- Operational bread oven in good condition — a genuine period feature
- Barn with stable, suitable for horses or conversion (subject to planning)
- Former henhouse offering additional outbuilding potential
- Enclosed garden plus meadow, providing privacy and outdoor space
- Strong rental income potential via gîte and short-term holiday rental markets
- Agency fees paid by the seller — no additional commission cost to the buyer
- 50 km from Poitiers with TGV access to Paris (under 1h30)
- 70 km from Angoulême, easy access to Bordeaux via A10
- No purchase restrictions for non-EU international buyers
- Priced well below comparable properties in higher-profile French regions
If you want to see what this farmhouse looks like in the morning light — or talk through what the outbuildings could become — get in touch through Homestra today. Properties with this combination of space, character, and condition at this price don't tend to hang around in the Vienne for long.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 130m²
- Price per m²
- €2,120
- Garden size
- 3291m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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