villecomtal-sur-arros, Midi-Pyrénées, Address available on request

Details :- Reference: PFYR-T128311. <p>At its heart a period farmhouse built in 1852, incorporating parts of an earlier dwelling, now skillfully enlarged with contemporary extensions giving a huge amount of light to the accommodation. The property is in excellent structural order and easy to maintain as a permanent home with air-source heat pumps providing economical hot water and central heating, under-floor throughout much of the ground floor. </p><br /><br /><p>With its sliding glazed bays opened, the kitchen-dining area becomes an indoor-outdoor room, ideal in hot weather and the sitting and music room combination is an additional year-round entertaining space. The library has bookshelves on all four walls and the original Gascon fireplace and bread oven. A utility room, downstairs shower room, games/hobby room complete the ground floor accommodation. The first floor bedrooms all have comfortable proportions and there is the potential to add an adjoining shower room to bedroom 1. </p><br /><br /><p>Outside, a workshop and carport for two vehicles are conveniently located on the arrival side. The garden has a great variety of plantings and specimen trees and a sheltered patio for outside dining. The swimming pool is ideally set on a lower level with a particularly large paved area. <br /><br /> </p><br /><br /><br />Rooms:<br /><br /><p><strong><em>Ground Floor</em></strong></p><br /><br /><p><br /><br />Entrance hall, 2.7x 5.1m, with fine Gascon staircase in oak.</p><br /><br /><p><br /><br />Sitting room, 5.3x5.2m, with exposed beams, stone fireplace and period sink feature. Opening through to:</p><br /><br /><p>Music room, 4.8x7m, with fitted carpet and three floor to ceiling bay windows.</p><br /><br /><p>Library, 5.2x5.1m, with original Gascon fireplace, bread oven and stone sink, bookcases on all walls.</p><br /><br /><p>Kitchen, 4x4.6m, with comprehensive suite of fitted units, with Belgian granite worktops. Halogen and gas hobs with extractor, two ovens, dishwasher and integrated fridge. The kitchen links through to:</p><br /><br /><p>Dining room, 5x5.1m, with exposed roof timbers and sliding bays on two walls.</p><br /><br /><p>Utility room, 1.8x3.6m, with sink and connections for laundry appliances.</p><br /><br /><p>Downstairs shower room with WC.</p><br /><br /><p>Games/hobby room, 5.8x4.8m, with lower ceiling and small storeroom off.</p><br /><br /><p>Gallery room, 5.2x4m, with wine cellar and stair rising to a small gallery with access to WC & basin and Bedroom 3.</p><br /><br /><p>Workshop, 5.6x3.6m, with racking for tools, two heat-pump tanks for CH and HW. Apart from the Sitting, Music and Gallery rooms, the ground floor has under floor heating.</p><br /><br /><p><strong><em>First Floor</em></strong></p><br /><br /><p>Bedroom 1, 5.2x5.2m, with double aspect windows. Potential for an adjoining shower room under sloping roof.</p><br /><br /><p>Bedroom 2, 5.3x5.2m, with south window. Door through to:</p><br /><br /><p>Bedroom 3, 5.3x6m, with exposed roof timbers and glazed bays above the music room. </p><br /><br /><p>Family bathroom, 3.7x3m, from half landing, with bath, shower, basin & WC. </p><br /><br /><p>Bedroom 4, 3.6x4m, with north window. Additional WC & basin.</p><br /><br /><p>Boxroom, 2x2.5m, with north window.</p><br /><br /><p> </p><br /><br /><p><strong><em>Outside</em></strong></p><br /><br /><p>Pillars and gates approach a visitor parking area and carport for 2 vehicles. Twin Stiebel Eltron heat pumps. </p><br /><br /><p>A paved walkway surrounds the house, opening onto a sheltered patio for outside dining. A pretty pond has lilies and exotic plantings. A gently sloping lawn is framed by a great variety of flowering shrubs, bushes and specimen trees. Swimming pool, 12x6m, with insulating roller cover, ideally set on a lower level with a generous paved surround. The property's boundaries are fully fenced and delineated by mixed hedges. 0.42 hectares in all.</p>