Cressac-Saint-Genis, Charente 16250

An old watermill to be restored with a two-hectare lake, a fishery and three hectares of woods in France's Charente department, thirty minutes from the town of Angoulme. From the secondary road through the hamlet, a tarmac lane leads east and quickly takes you to the watermill, edged with water on its north side. Beyond it, a stream flows from north to south across the property, between the house and a lake surrounded by dense woods. A small island in the middle of the lake becomes a peninsula when the water is at its lowest level in the summer. The enclosed lake can be supplied with water from the north. On the south side, a sluice gate leads to a fishery where fish can be caught by draining the lake.