137 Beautiful Farmhouse Retreat | Sleeps 8

A beautiful French retreat set just outside the bastide village of Castillonnès on the Dordogne/Lot et Garonne borders. The farmhouse sleeps up to 8 adults in 4 spacious bedrooms, with the accommodation set over two floors. The house is ideal for families as well as groups of friends. The rooms are all decorated to a high standard with many original features and several characterful ‘brocante’ furniture items, whilst offering all the modern conveniences a large group could want for. The kitchen is open plan and there is a large dining area, as well as a cosy lounge with television opening off the main kitchen/dining area.


The Farmhouse is completely flexible with its accommodation and layout and can easily accommodate a large family group of different ages or two families travelling together.


On the Ground Floor, you enter through small iron gates and into a small entrance courtyard and then into the entrance hall. The Kitchen/Dining room is large and double height and overlooks the covered terrace to the back, with double French doors leading out to the heated swimming pool to the side. The Kitchen has a large Dining Area which seats 8 comfortably, whilst the Kitchen is equipped with an electric oven and hob, large fridge/freezer, separate drinks fridge and dishwasher, plus a washer/dryer in the adjacent utility room. The lounge area has comfortable sofas, a wide screen TV with satellite channels, a CD-player and the WiFi hub.


Ground Floor Bedrooms



Bedroom 1 is a large master bedroom with double bed and small seating area, French doors to a garden terrace, air-conditioning, and a mezzanine ideal for storing your suitcases. There is also an en-suite bath and shower room.

Bedroom 2 is a double bedroom with double aspect, air-conditioning and French doors to the garden, and an en suite bath and shower-room.

Bedroom 3 is a smaller double aspect twin bedroom with a window to the garden and French doors opening onto the covered terrace. Guests here use the shower and separate wc off the entrance hall.


First Floor Bedroom



Bedroom 4 is on the first floor and is set into the eaves. It is a double bedroom with an en-suite bath and wc behind a partition screen, and countryside views to the front of the house.






Outside Living


The Farmhouse is superb for outdoor living and is set in a lovely large garden, with the house being set back up a long tree-lined driveway, with a shady car-port for two cars. At the back of the house, accessed from the Kitchen is a fantastic covered dining terrace with a large dining table and chairs for 8, and a charcoal BBQ.

The heated swimming pool is located just a few steps up from the kitchen to the side of the property. There is another covered area by the poolside with comfy seating and a dining table for 8, as well as a deck area with sun-loungers, and a handy loo and shower. The 10 x 5m swimming pool is heated, with an electric shutter cover for security.


The poolside has fantastic views out across the pool and garden, as well as lighting for the long summer evenings, making this an ideal spot to relax and watch the sunset reflected in the pool.

From the back corner of the garden, a newly gravelled footpath leads across the adjacent field to join the road leading into Castillonnès village centre and all its amenities.


The famously beautiful bastide villages of Issigeac, Villeréal and Lauzun are only 10 minutes’ drive away, and Monpazier, Eymet and Monflanquin also easy to reach within 20-25 minutes.