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Notable features include an elliptical wrought iron and oak elliptical staircase and decorative timber floors. Many rooms have a double aspect with multiple windows creating an exceptionally light living space. The independant converted barn included in the sale has approximately 200m2 of habitable living space. It has been beutifully renovated maintaining original features and is currently very successfully let as a self-catering holiday home. There are three bedrooms, two shower rooms, a large sitting room, a luxury granite finished completely equipped kitchen dining room and a covered veranda with views of the Pyrenées. A 12m x 6m swimming pool was added in 2007. Skiing is nearby, the nearest market towns are Trie-sur-Baïse and Lannemezan. Tarbes is the nearest commercial town (30km) and Lourdes (45km) and Pau (55km) are very accessible. Pau airport 40 minutes, Toulouse airport 75 minutes.
Details For Further Information please contact Sophie McDonald
Ground floorTwo slate steps lead up to original double doors with a transom window in to the Entrance Hall. Entrance Hall The entrance hall has original plaster mouldings and marble floor. Along with the fine oak elliptical period staircase with decorative beading and elegant the entrance is a very elegant point of arrival.
From rear of stair, five steps up to back lobby with built-in cupboard. Double period doors lead off the Hall to the Dining Room.
Dining room (5 .3 x 5m) South facing with the mountain view. The dining room has a marble floor and a carved stone fireplace.
Kitchen (5.5x2.5m) |The kitchen is north facing with a large window and glazed door which opens on to the terrace. It is fitted with high-grade units in blue and white with reconstituted marble worktops, stainless steel five-burner gas cooker with integrated extractor and recessed lighting are included in the sale.
Sitting room (5.2x5m) The east facing living room has french windows opening on to the terrace. There are in addition two large south facing windows. The fireplace is ornate and elegant of carved grey marble and the floor is marble.
Study (5x2.5m) The study is north east facing with a french window opening onto the terrace on the east and a large north facing window. An entire wall is fitted with cupboards and book shelves in beech.
Rear lobby, with built-in cupboards, door to kitchen and low door below stair to hall.
Utility room, with connections for laundry appliances & central heating unit.
Separate WC & basin.
First FloorThe oak staircase has decorative beading, iron spindles and rises the full height of the building.
First landing This elegant landing has a large south facing window and double doors on each side leading to the yellow bedroom suite on the right and the blue bedroom suite on the right. Bedroom 1 ( 5 .4 x 5.1) Bedroom 1known as the yellow bedroom has plaster ceiling mouldings, a carved art deco fireplace, original timber ash panel floor and two large south facing windows .
Ensuite shower, with shower, pedestal basin and WC
Bedroom 2 (5 .4 x 5.1m) Bedroom 2 is extremely light with four large windows, ceiling mouldings, a white marble fireplace and a remarkable elegant floor of oak and cherry herringbone with a centeal marquetry rose.
Ensuite shower, with shower cabinet, basin and WC.
Bedroom 3 ( 3.5 x 2.5m) Bedroom three is at the back of the house over looking the north garden. It shares the bathroom with bedroom 2 by a connecting door.
Bedroom 4 ( 3.1 x 2.8m) Bedroom four is at the back of the house over looking the north garden. It can be used as a double or a twin and enjoys proximity to the family bathroom on the landing.
Family bathroom (2x2.5m) The family bathroom is also situated at the back of the house with a large central bath with great surrounds and high quality 1950's surround tiling in immaculate condition. There is a window, a shower cabinet, basin and WC.
Second floorThe elliptical staircase continues to the upper landing with picture dormer window with grand south view.
Bedroom 5 ( 7.8 x 5.4m) Bedroom five is south facing with plaster ceiling mouldings, a carved art deco fireplace, original herringbone parquet flooring and south and east facing windows.
Ensuite shower, fully tiled, with walk-in glass-sided shower, pedestal basin and WC.
Bedroom 6 (7 x 5m) Bedroom five is south facing with plaster ceiling mouldings, a carved art deco fireplace, original parquet flooring and southt facing windows.
Ensuite shower, fully tiled, with walk-in glass-sided shower, pedestal badin and WC.
Bedroom 7, 2.5 x 2.5m via a small door off rear of stair, with glazed door north to roof terrace, 3.5x2.5m, overlooking grounds with decorative balustrade.
Guest wing - converted barn
A converted and extended barn has been the subject of a professional restoration to provide separate high-grade accommodation.
Kitchen-dining, 7.2x6.7m, a spacious room with well appointed, fully equipped kitchen area with granite work tops and dining area.
Shower room (3.1x2.1) Stylish and spacious walk in shower with WC & connections for laundry appliances.
Stair to First floor with broad pine planks throughout.
Upper Sitting Room, 7.6x6.7m, a handsome room with exposed beams, woodburning stove and glazed doors.
... leading onto a covered balcony
Covered balcony, 8.4x7m, a South facing summer entertaining area.
Bedroom 1, 6.7x4.6m.
Bedroom 2, 2.7x2m.
Bedroom 3, 2.7x2m, a small twin.
Shower room, 2.7x1.9m. Within the same building :
Garage, 8.4X7m, with space for 3-4 cars ;
Workshop, Bike and garden stores.
Views of the Guest Wing:
Swimming Pool
Swimming pool, 12x6m, set in elevated paved terrace, built in 2007.
Land1.3 hectares. Driveway to parking spaces and garaging. Main entrance gates between pair of plane trees lead to front door. Sun terrace, 9x6m, accessed by french windows from living room and study on East. A sweep of lawn extends to a wilder area with an enchanting brook winding across the full width of the property. Feature trees include oak, ash, plane and limes with a group of evergreens and cedars and the boundaries are demarcated by hedges, fencing and some old stone walling. Garden entrance from side lane beside a line of nineoaks. Pigeonnier with a slate roof.
VIEWS
Location & AccessLocated in the beautiful countryside of the Lannemezan Plateau to the East of Tarbes, the house lies in the heart of a region famed for its gastronomy (Pate de Fois Gras) and it's wine (Madiran). Elevation 380 m = 1,200 ft above sea level
From the UK: 1 hour's flight to Pau, 1 hour 20 mins to Toulouse, 2 hours to Biarritz. The A64 motorway links are good and traffic free compared to UK motorways. It is also possible to fly into Carcassonne or Bergerac airports (2 hours 30 mins approx) By rail there is a TGV (express train) to Lourdes, Tarbes and Toulouse.
SERVICES
PRICEThe Price is 850 000 EUROS For Further Information please contact Sophie McDonald Furniture and equipment for sale by separate negotiation.
The Area
Gascony was historically inhabited by Basque-related people.. From medieval times until the nineteenth century, the Gascon language was spoken, which is a regional variant of the Occitan Language. Gascony is the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired Alexandre Dumas's character in The Three Musketeers. It is also home to the hero of the play Cyrano de Bergerac. Gascony is famed for its douceur de vivre ("sweetness of life"): its food (it is home to foie gras and Armagnac brandy), its medieval towns and villages, locally called bastides, nested amid green rolling hills, its sunny weather, the beauty of its landscape, with views of the Pyrenees mountain range, all of which contribute to the popularity of Gascony as a tourist destination. Gascony is one of the least populated areas of western Europe.
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Nearby
Auch very pretty, old town. Lourdes (45 minutes) for the cure, the Basilica, and its castle which houses a museum dedicated all things culturally Pyrenean. Marciac (40 minutes) has a huge round the clock jazz jamboree for two weeks in August which draws in Jazz giants and big crowds. Side streets are lined with restaurants and stalls selling craft-work. Great buzz. Mirande (25 minutes) has country'n'western music 2 weeks in July. Pau (1 hour) for shopping, sight-seeing, its English connections.
Toulouse (1 hour 20 minutes) France's third city, and once the capital of an independant state. A must see historical centre, with university culture and connections to Concorde, Airbus and the Ariane space programme. Spain (1 hour) for tapas, hammon and Rioja. Skiing
Cycling (Road & MTB)The Hautes Pyrenees département of France has a superb network of minor roads and minimal traffic outside the towns and off the major routes. The range of landscapes is immense from leafy and domestic to glacier topped high mountains. Local routes are rural, and will not only offer you rides from easy to strenuous but will also introduce you to some of the immense variety of the areas landscape and it's people.
Other less strenuous rides across rolling pastureland can be accessed from the house by setting off in any direction other than south. To the South the Pyrenees is truly a road cyclist dream, offering low level rides through sleepy traditional villages on almost traffic free roads and climbs winding their way up mountain sides, to Tour de France cols giving you never-ending spectacular mountain scenery.
Walking
Cirque of Gavarnie and the nearby crater Cirque de Troumouse is a world heritage site with a spectacular 1,000 ft waterfall, which is a visual feast. Lac du Gaube is an exceptionally blue lake with an amazing mountain backdrop.
Ossau Valley is one of the more beautiful Pyrenean valleys near the Cirque of Gavarnie. Grottes de Betharram caves are full of interesting water formed rock formations. Lourdes is an internationally famous pilgrimage destination for Christians who wish to visit the Grotto of Massabielle.
Fishing
There are numerous privately run "parcours de pÍche" where the uninitiated can rent equipment and cook and eat their catch at the picnic areas provided.
RunningThe quiet roads and forest tracks around the house offer a peaceful training ground for anyone looking for an easy morning jog, a hilly interval session or a long training run. Whether you are a roadie or a fell runner, we are able to provide maps to some of the best and quietest running you will have ever experienced. WildlifeThe variety of birds is exceptional, including red kites, buzzards, green woodpeckers, jays, hoopoes, kingfishers, hen harriers, and occasionally eagles and golden orioles. Golf:There are several good clubs within an hour's drive. The ability to be able to play virtually all year is one of the many diversions the area offers. Courses at Lannemezan, Tillac and Lourdes. Other local activites include white water rafting, bathing in water spas in 2 Spa towns, paragliding, hang gliding, tasting wines and spirits, tennis. Through-out the Summer there are plenty of village fetes all around. Rugby is also popular in this area.
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Imposing 19th Century French house with beautiful façade.
The house islocated in the Hautes-Pyrénées département within the Midi-Pyrénées région of Souther France. It is part of the area historically known as Gascony. 
