Orne, Normandy
€86,000 [convert]

Property Description

Detached brick and slate property(75 sqm), lies in the countryside in a peaceful setting, in the area of Gace, with a land area of 2.35 acres(9 542 sqm)(2 461 sqm of garden attached and 7 081 sqm of field on the other side of the country lane). Electric and waters meters. Works needed : new kitchen and bathroom, modernisation and decoration. The roof has been done in 2002. The closest shops are 10 kms away. One part of the roof is ion corrugated(part of the kitchen and toilet). Single glazing. Property empty since 2010. New heating system needed(before old gas central heating with a outside tank). The kitchen and toilets have been added to the east-facing rear of the house. Until recently, the floor tiles in the bedrooms and offices were covered with old lino, which led to dampness at the bottom of the walls, but everything is dry now. Outside, there's an old manual pump (no longer working) but there's a water tank underneath. Outbuilding: old smithy(45 sqm) : breezeblock basement construction, + wooden framework, asbestos fibre sheet metal roofing, steel and translucent sheeting, rammed earth floor, large garage door, the chimney from the old forge comes out in the roof, above this room, a mezzanine area for storage, but the floor now needs to be changed. The old forge communicates with the workshop45 sqm) with a concrete floor, large garage door in metal structure and corrugated sheets (door height: 2.3m), another door on the side. The other outbuilding: Brick base, then half-timbering(no more cob), clad in sheet metal with steel panelling, and covered in sheet metal with steel panelling, used as a workshop/garage, rammed earth approx. 37 sqm), large metal door. And at the back, a clay cellar of approx. 28 sqm. Above these 2 rooms, an attic, accessible via a door on the outside and a door in the gable, approx. 63 sqm on the ground (wooden floor). Attached to this building: a breeze-block henhouse covered in fibre cement, approx. 9 sqm, then another in corrugated iron. And on the other side, a storage room with a half-timbered structure (no cob) and sheet metal cladding, approx. 20 sqm. Septic tank (to be checked), 3 manholes in the old chicken run The courtyard and the back of the house: sunken, lots of stones but no longer inhabited so the grass has returned. The hamlet, is a hamlet, so there are neighbours close by.

Ground floor : entrance with a staircase, living room(20 sqm) with tiled flooring, kitchen(13 sqm) with a sink and a cement floor, 2 bedrooms(10;12 sqm) with tiled flooring, 2 study's(8;5 sqm) with tiled flooring, tiled bathroom(5,50 sqm) with a sink, toilet.

First floor : loft(50 sqm) to convert.

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