Two Stone Houses + Glass Veranda in Rural Corrèze — 3-Bed Holiday Home for €203K



Limousin, Corrèze, Troche, France, Troche (France)
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 130m² Floor area
€203,000
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
130m²
No garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand on the upstairs terrace of this place on a clear morning and you'll understand immediately why people drive three hours south from Paris just to breathe this air. The Corrèze countryside rolls away from you in every direction — deep green, almost shockingly quiet, broken only by the occasional church bell drifting up from Troche below and the sound of wind moving through the oak trees at the edge of the property. This is not a backdrop. It's the whole point.
The property itself is genuinely unusual — two separate stone houses, each with its own character and floor plan, joined together by a custom-built glass veranda that has become the heart of the home. That veranda is where you'll end up spending most of your time. It pulls in light from both sides, looks out onto the wooded plot, and has this wonderful in-between quality: sheltered enough for a rainy afternoon with a book, open enough in summer that you barely feel indoors at all. It's the kind of space that takes a moment to understand and then becomes impossible to give up.
The first house is anchored by a generously sized fitted kitchen with a wood-burning stove — the sort of stove that makes the whole room feel like somewhere you actually want to be from October through March. A ground-floor bedroom and shower room sit adjacent to it, keeping things practical for guests or for those who'd rather avoid stairs. Head up and the mezzanine living room opens directly onto that terrace with its long countryside views — this is the view you'll be photographing every season, watching it shift from the pale green of April to the amber and rust of late October. A second bedroom and a full bathroom with toilet complete this upper level.
The second house runs on its own logic. A fitted kitchen, a living room with a proper open fireplace, a bathroom — and then upstairs, a tucked-away attic bedroom with a shower room and toilet. It works perfectly as an entirely self-contained space for visiting family, for a longer-stay rental, or simply as a creative studio or guest annexe with full privacy from the main living areas. The fact that both houses remain connected through the veranda means you can open everything up or close it down depending on who's visiting and how much space you want.
Troche sits in the Corrèze department of the Limousin region — one of the least-discovered corners of rural France, and very deliberately so among the people who know it. This is not Dordogne, where half the village has been bought up by British retirees and the Saturday market charges accordingly. Corrèze is still genuinely, authentically French. The weekly market in nearby Uzerche — a medieval town perched dramatically above the Vézère river, sometimes called "la perle du Limousin" — sells actual farmhouse cheeses and proper Limousin beef, raised on the same green hills you can see from your terrace. Brive-la-Gaillarde, about 35 kilometres south, is the regional capital with a real food culture: the Brive market on Saturday mornings is one of those experiences that reminds you what shopping for food used to feel like.
In summer, the Corrèze is outdoor-recreation country. The Vézère and the Dordogne rivers are both within striking distance for canoeing — you can spend a full day paddling between limestone cliffs and pull up at a riverside restaurant for magret de canard and a carafe of Cahors. The Millevaches plateau, a short drive east, is serious hiking territory: the GR4 long-distance trail cuts across it, and the landscape up there feels genuinely wild, more Scandinavian than French. In winter, the property earns its keep differently. You light the wood stove in the kitchen, the fireplace in the second house, and the whole stone complex holds heat in a way that modern construction simply doesn't replicate.
Fiber optic internet is already connected — practical detail, but a significant one for anyone considering working remotely or managing rental bookings. The individual sanitation system is in place, there's a cellar for storage, and the wooded plot around the property is private enough that you genuinely have no overlooking neighbours. That level of privacy, with 130 square metres split across two houses and a veranda, at €203,000, is not something you'll easily find again in this condition this side of the Pyrenees.
For international buyers, Corrèze property is relatively straightforward. France has no restrictions on foreign ownership, the notarial purchase process is transparent and well-regulated, and the region has a growing profile among buyers from the UK, Netherlands, and Belgium looking for space, climate, and value that Provence stopped offering a generation ago. Rental demand in the Corrèze is real — the region attracts walkers, cyclists, families seeking green-space holidays, and the kind of travellers who want a proper stone farmhouse rather than a villa with a pool. A property that sleeps this many people in two separate configurations has obvious short-term rental appeal when you're not using it yourself.
Key features at a glance:
- Two stone houses connected by a custom glass veranda — 130 sqm total living space
- 3 bedrooms across both houses, plus attic room in second house
- 2 bathrooms and 2 shower rooms with toilets
- Wood-burning stove in main kitchen and open fireplace in second house
- Mezzanine living room with direct terrace access and open countryside views
- Self-contained second house ideal as guest suite, annexe, or rental unit
- Fiber optic internet already installed
- Individual sanitation system in place
- Private wooded plot with no overlooking neighbours
- Cellar for additional storage
- 35km from Brive-la-Gaillarde with regional airport and rail connections
- Close to Uzerche, Vézère river, and Millevaches plateau
- No foreign ownership restrictions — standard French notarial purchase process
- Strong short-term rental potential given dual-house configuration
- Listed at €203,000 — exceptional value for a renovated stone property in this condition
If you've been looking at holiday homes in France and keep finding that everything either needs a complete overhaul or comes with a price tag that assumes you'll never negotiate, this property is worth a serious look. Two houses, proper character, a veranda that changes how you think about indoor-outdoor living, and a piece of the real Corrèze countryside that hasn't been packaged up and sold to the highest bidder yet.
Contact Homestra today to arrange a viewing — this kind of configuration at this price point doesn't sit on the market long, and the Corrèze spring is genuinely worth seeing in person.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 130m²
- Price per m²
- €1,562
- Garden size
- 1241m²
- Has Garden
- No
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- Yes
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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