Stone Village House with Pool & Ensuite Bedrooms Near Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, Occitanie



France, Verfeil (France)
3 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 112m² Floor area
€175,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
112m²
Garden
Pool
Not furnished
Description
Sunday morning in Verfeil, and the smell of fresh bread from the boulangerie at the end of the lane drifts through the kitchen window before you've even made coffee. That's not a fantasy — it's just Tuesday here, or any other day of the week. This is a village with an actual bakery, an actual restaurant, and an actual rhythm that you slot into almost immediately.
The house itself is built from the same warm ochre stone you see throughout this corner of the Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne borderlands — thick walls that keep things cool in July and hold heat in February. It's been restored with care. The kind of restoration where someone made good decisions: a quality kitchen that doesn't feel like a showroom, a dining area that flows without forcing it into an open-plan living space, all on the ground floor so there's a logic to how you move through the day. Cook, eat, spill out onto the terrace. It just works.
And that terrace. There's a generous covered area purpose-built for long lunches that start at one o'clock and end when the light changes — something the French have perfected and visitors quietly adopt. Beyond it, the garden drops into a plunge pool, cold enough to actually matter during the weeks in July and August when temperatures in this part of Occitanie climb well into the mid-30s. Shade, stone, water. You don't need much more than that.
Back inside, the stairs take you up to two bedrooms on the first floor, each with its own ensuite — so two couples, or parents and older children, can coexist without the usual morning queue for the bathroom. Then above that, the attic bedroom. It's the kind of room that people argue over quietly: sloped ceilings, the faint creak of old timber, a sense of being under the rooftops of something genuinely old. It has its own ensuite too. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms. Nobody has to share.
There's also a large cellar beneath the house, which is either a serious wine storage solution or a practical overflow space depending on how you use the property. Given you're forty minutes from Gaillac — one of France's lesser-celebrated but increasingly respected wine appellations producing everything from dry Mauzac whites to robust Duras reds — the cellar earns its keep either way.
Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val is fifteen minutes by car. If you haven't been, it's worth understanding what makes it special: a medieval town on the Aveyron river gorge, with a Sunday market that's been running for centuries and still operates like it matters. Farmers, cheese sellers, fabric merchants, the occasional accordion. It's not performative. People actually buy their vegetables there. The Gorges de l'Aveyron themselves offer hiking trails along the river cliffs, kayaking through dramatic limestone scenery, and a general wildness that feels increasingly rare in accessible rural France.
Further out, the bastide villages of the region — Cordes-sur-Ciel to the west, Bruniquel perched above the Aveyron to the north — are an afternoon each, easily. The Cathar history of this whole stretch of southern France runs deep, and if you're the kind of person who wants context for where you're living rather than just a backdrop, there's no shortage of it. The Château de Bruniquel alone, with evidence of Neanderthal occupation going back 176,000 years, is one of those places that genuinely recalibrates your sense of time.
For access, Montauban has a TGV station that puts Paris under four hours away. Toulouse-Blagnac airport is roughly an hour's drive — direct flights from London, Amsterdam, Dublin, and most major European hubs. This isn't remote in the way that sounds inconvenient; it's remote in the way that means peace and quiet with a simple route home when you need it.
The property is currently used as a secondary residence and is move-in ready. For international buyers considering their first French property purchase, the process is straightforward with a notaire handling the legal transfer — no solicitor required. EU and non-EU buyers alike can purchase freely, and France's non-resident ownership rules are well-established. The property's size, condition, and location near Saint-Antonin make it a realistic candidate for seasonal rental income if you're not using it year-round, with strong demand from British, Dutch, and German visitors throughout spring and autumn.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms, each with private ensuite bathroom
- Ground-floor kitchen, dining, and open-plan living area
- Covered terrace for outdoor dining and entertaining
- Plunge pool in the garden
- Large stone cellar for wine and storage
- Traditional local stone construction with quality restoration throughout
- Located in a working village with bakery and restaurant on site
- 15 minutes from Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val and its famous weekly market
- 40 minutes from the Gaillac wine region
- TGV access from Montauban in under an hour
- Toulouse-Blagnac airport approximately 60 minutes by car
- Move-in ready condition — currently used as a secondary residence
- Strong seasonal rental potential in a high-demand rural Occitanie corridor
- 112 sqm of living space with terraced garden
At €175,000, this is a rare opportunity to own a well-restored stone house with a pool in a genuinely liveable village in one of southern France's most quietly appealing corners. Properties at this price point, in this condition, with this combination of features, don't stay available long in the current Occitanie market.
If you'd like to arrange a viewing or have questions about the purchase process as an international buyer, reach out to the team at Homestra today. We'll walk you through everything — from the first visit to the keys in your hand.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 112m²
- Price per m²
- €1,563
- Garden size
- 135m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- Yes
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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