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SMALLHOLDING FOR SALE IN FRANCE

Name:  Anthony PUGH

Telephone number: 00 33 4 68 05 61 09

Mobile number:  00 33 6 18 12 66 31

E-mail address: anthonypugh@waitrose.com

Type of property for sale: Smallholding

Country:  France

Nearest town or village: Saint Denis Les Martel (or St. Denis Pres Martel)

Nature of sale :  Private treaty

Price: 295 000 euros

When available or date of auction: Available from December 2007.

Description: A typical Quercynois farmhouse with a large adjoining barn, plus a smaller barn

with a working bread oven, together with a pigsty and chicken house. Large garden with fruit trees; walnut grove (app. 12 very productive trees), plus 10 hectares of arable land free of any tenancy agreements. Various crops have been rotated on the land until this year, including maize and barley. The fields are flat and bordered by a stream in a deep trench on one side and neighbours'

fields on the others. The setting is the original flood plain of the Dordogne, within the 'Cercle de Montvalent' (or cercle de Floirac) a circular area bordered by overhanging cliffs and woods, with the Dordogne running through the middle, about 1 km away. To the East is the 'Puy d'Issolud', where the last of the Gauls held out against Julius Caesar. To the West is open farmland bordering

the river. The setting is very attractive, and there is very little traffic on the lane from St Denis Les Martel.  The A20 motorway is 20km away, and the local train station connects to Brive and Paris, or Figeac, and the Auvergne or Toulouse.  A new airport, at Brive-Cressensac, 20

minutes away will open next year, and is expected to attract low-cost carriers.

Comments: This property, called 'La Verrie' or 'La Veyrie', has ample scope for development, either for growing vegetables or grazing animals. The land can also be rented out or sold to local farmers who have expressed an interest, now that the 'bail' has expired for the neighbour whose family previously farmed the land.

The house is habitable, having two bedrooms, small bathroom and kitchen, and a living/dining room with an open fire. It has been used as a secondary holiday residence for the last few years. There is an oil-fired boiler, and electric water heating. Extra bedrooms and a 2nd bathroom were being planned, in the roof space, which is large. The barns also present opportunities for extra living space (eg gites) or recreational/artistic  activities.

The sale is occasioned by a change of family circumstances leading to relocation.

Anyone interested should email the owner, Dr Anthony Pugh, at anthonypugh@waitrose.com , who will then invite them to look at a slideshow on the internet and/or visit the property.

Sale by private treaty will save 7% to 8% in agency fees.

ADDED 27/11/07