Enchanting and Spacious Apartment with Pool
Marignac-Laspeyres near St Gaudens, Haute-Garonne

Location

Ideally located 45 minutes south of Toulouse airport, and one hour north of the Pyrenees, the nearest ski station, and the Spanish border, Marignac-Laspeyres is a delightful small hilltop village ten minutes west of junction 22 on the A64 Toulouse-Biarritz motorway, and we are in the village next to the château.

Accommodation

The apartment is completely self-contained at one end of a seventeeth-century farmhouse, and has its own entrance hall with living/dining room (4 x 5m) to one side and bedroom (3,5 x 3,5m) opposite, with kingsize four-poster double bed. Visitors sleeping separately can make use of the comfortable double convertible sofa in the living room.

The living room has a floor of chestnut boards, plastered walls with old half-timbering, and is equipped with a sofa and easy chairs, a glass topped rattan dining table with chairs to match, a bookcase, French and BBC satellite television. Telephone and Internet connections are available by arrangement. There is oil-fired central heating with thermostatically controlled radiators throughout, as the apartment was designed for winter as well as summer use. Covered parking is in a barn near the entrance, with carwashing facilities.

The tiled kitchen is through an arch off the living room, and is fully equipped with gas/electric cooker, microwave oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, glassware, plates and cutlery. Beyond the kitchen is a shower room with Italian tiled thermostatic shower, basin and WC

A glass door off the living room leads to a glass-roofed indoor garden converted from a barn, with stairs up to a lookout with a big corner window from which you can enjoy long views over rolling woods and fields to the south and west, and watch the often spectacular sunsets. Below, there is a boiler room where clothes can be washed in the machine there or dried beside the boiler in wet weather. There is an outdoor clothesline for normal use.

The farmhouse is a long spread of barns and living quarters joined up over several centuries. It faces the quiet village street on the east, and the side away from the village looks over open country and our seven acres of woodland wilderness. We are cutting paths through this and will soon be able to take evening strolls in comfort

The ground near the house is now a long garden, and at the visitors' end, screened by willows, a swimming pool (4 x 12m) has been dug into the hillside to make a suntrap with a view. There is a pear tree on the grass mound overlooking the pool which makes a shady place for visitors to sit and eat outdoors, and there is a portable barbecue for use nearby. Garden furniture and sunbeds are provided. The owner may visit the pool by arrangement: the only other disturbances will be the church clock (not too close) and strolling cats or chickens (not too many).

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Bookings and Enquiries Bookings are by the week, Saturday 4pm to Saturday 10am. Priced and recommended for two people, but can accommodate one or two overnight visitors on the double convertible sofa in the living room - please ask for details and extra cost. No children or animals. Prices include electricity and cooking gas, hot water, central heating, and use of washing machine twice a week. Use of the pool is included from 1st June to 30th September. Towels, bedlinen and duvets are provided. February to May £170 June £250 July & August £350 September £250 October to December  £170 To book/enquire please contact Jane Sylvester Enquiry Form name e-mail address enquiry Message for Jane Sylvester property 1931001:   Please check your e-mail address and then submit. Tel (France): 05 61 98 81 64 (International + 33 5 61 98 81 64)