Some houses you walk into and simply exhale. This is one of them. A maison de maître of generous proportions in a quiet hamlet of north Charente, thoroughly loved and renovated with care. Light moves through the rooms all day, catching the beams and the charm of travertine and wood underfoot.

The open-plan kitchen is the heart of the house, opening straight onto a courtyard built for long summer lunches. A very large reception room with fireplace, a near self-contained studio with a bathroom next door and a sage-panelled study complete the ground floor. The first floor comprises four sizeable bedrooms and a bathroom. There are two generous attics.

Beautiful mature gardens with open views of the quiet countryside while the pool and outbuildings lend themselves to a gîte (subject to necessary permissions). With a DPE of C and a heat pump fitted in 2025, it asks for nothing on arrival. Picture that first warm evening under the mulberry tree, the fields gone gold and the whole summer ahead.