Languedoc-Roussillon Maison de maître for sale near Castelnaudary, Aude in the south of France with renovation potential
This Maison de Maître is presented with entrance garden and a nice frontage that dominates the centre of the hamlet.
Nice large entrance door and abri and front façade with the original windows and tiled pathway.
The imposing entrance opens up to the total height of the house and with a very attractive staircase to the rear and a plastered ceiling with moldings.
Staircase with open wooden banisters, wooden thresholds and tiled steps, tiles that will also be found in the entrance hall and elsewhere in the house.
The heart of the house with access to the large salon, the dining room and a further dining room by the original wooden double doors in the original frames.
Access to the bedrooms on the first floor and the attic on the second floor.
The first dining room, the original kitchen, with fireplace and integrated bread oven, floor tiles and plastered ceiling with moldings.
Access to the kitchen and the hallway with boiler, laundry area and the private WC on the ground floor.
The kitchen with access to the garden behind the house, floor tiles, and wooden kitchen, equipped and with tiled work surfaces
Adjoining the hallway with boiler, laundry room and private WC.
Floor tiles and access to the large second dining room.
Second dining room, with floor tiles, marble fireplace with nice presentation of the mirror, plastered ceilings and beams, incorporated cupboards and the original double door to the salon, wooden door to the hallway.
The salon, jewel of the house, is very luminous with the original windows with small tiles on the entrance side and the rear of the house.
Room with a high plastered ceiling with gilt moldings, walls and paneling in plaster and wood with gilt moldings...the total in a neutral setting.
The beautiful original parquet and a large chimney in one piece of marble.
On the first floor, accessible by hallway with old floor tiles, the bedrooms, originally four in total.
Large luminous bedroom with floor tiles, painted wooden fireplace with nice presentation of the mirror, incorporated cupboards.
Plastered ceiling and access to the bathroom and a room adjoining bedroom 1.
Pleasant bathroom with floor tiles, private WC and bidet, adjoining bedroom 1.
The adjoining room with old floor tiles and the possibility to install a shower room.
Large bedroom with views of the rear the garden, accessible by small closed lobby.
Old floor tiles, double wooden entrance door, marble fireplace, incorporated cupboard, wooden door to the bathroom of bedroom 1.
Very nice shapes of the walls on the side of the headboard.
Large room, previously two bedrooms, with garden view, old floor tiles, marble fireplace, entrance by original wooden double door, plastered ceiling and plastered beams, non finished arch to the lobby of bedroom 2.
On the second floor is the attic space with the largest part at living height.
Old floor tiles throughout the entire attic.
Maison de Maître with large potential surrounded by nice countryside.
The rooms on the ground floor are in need of brightening up, except the salon.
Renovations such as the re-wallpapering and the brightening of the entrance walls.
Bedrooms; re-wallpapering bedroom 2, renovation of the room adjoining bedroom 1 and renovation/installation of a shower room in the large room with the possibility to once again create two bedrooms.
The "Castel" merits it!




Land - (666.00 m²) - level land partially to the front of the Maison de Maître and partially to the rear.
Back garden bordered by walls, front garden by stone balustrades and wrought iron entrance gate.
Traditional construction of 1750 with vide sanitaire, roof revised and insulated in 2002.
Brightening up and some renovations to be foreseen inside and redecorating of the outside shutters perhaps at a later date.
Mains water and electricity.
Mains drainage.
Central heating on fuel.
The present owner has condemned the chimneys, but a return to a functioning of the fires is possible.
Wooden framework.
South facing.
Consumption : 188 kWhEP/m2.an
The Maison de Maître is situated in a nice hamlet at about 5km from Castelnaudary with all amenities.
The Hamlet is served by frequent trades vans.
Nice undulated countryside well taken care of by local farmers.
Peaceful region with good proximity of large cities like Toulouse, Carcassonne and Castres as well as a good presence of large villages.
Carcassonne with Airport-Ryanair at 41 km.
Toulouse with International airport at 60 km.
Castres with National airport at 47 km.
The Beaches at 113 km.
Highway at 6 km.
Castelnaudary, Aude
GROUND FLOOR
Entrance - (26.00 m²) - Access by the imposing original wooden double entrance door
High space with the large staircase in wood at the back with access to the first floor and the attic floor
Nice open balustrades in wood, staircase with steps in old floor tiles and wooden thresholds
Floor in old floor tiles, plastered ceiling with moldings, the original double doors and frames to salon, dining room and second dining room
Dining room 1 - (25.32 m²) - The former kitchen, floor tiles, fireplace with incorporated bread oven, plastered ceiling with moldings, access to the kitchen, access to the boiler room/laundry room and the private WC
Kitchen - (7.50 m²) - Floor tiles, double window door to the garden, window door to the dining room, wooden kitchen units, equipped and with tiled work surfaces
Hallway - boiler room/laundry room - (6.50 m²) - Floor tiles, boiler, access to private WC and access to second dining room
WC - (1.28 m²) - Floor tiles, private WC
Dining room 2 - (25.15 m²) - Accessed by the hallway and by the main entrance
Floor tiles, marble fireplace with a very nice presentation of the mirror, plastered ceiling with beam, incorporated cupboards with wooden doors, the original wooden double door to the hallway, salon and the main entrance
Salon - (55.00 m²) - The jewel of the house, floor in ancient parquet, magnificent high ceiling in plaster with gilt moldings, walls and panels in plaster and wood with gilt moldings, very large chimney in one piece of marble, double window door to the garden
Pleasantly luminous room from large windows and the good use of neutral colours
Nice together on the ground floor of this Maison de Maître
The walls in the rooms, except the salon, have been stripped and are ready for fresh wallpaper; aesthetically a brightening up of the total would be desirable
But the general state of the interior is good and promising!
1st FLOOR
Hallway - (14.35 m²) - Floor in old tiles and open balustrades in wood, access to the bedrooms
Bedroom 1- (33.65 m²) - Luminous bedroom with floor tiles, painted wooden chimney with nice presentation of the mirror, incorporated cupboards, plastered ceiling
Bathroom - (9.20 m²) - Adjoining bedroom 1, floor tiles, with WC and bidet
Room - (10.25 m²) - Old floor tiles, connections present for installation of a shower room for bedroom 1
The actual bathroom of bedroom 1 could serve as bathroom for bedroom 2
Bedroom 2 - (24.76 m²) - Access by lobby and old wooden door, old floor tiles, marble chimney, incorporated cupboard, plastered ceiling and very nice shapes of the wall on the headboard side, garden view
Wooden door with access to the bathroom of bedroom 1
Bedroom 3/4 - (42.00 m²) - The works to create a large space have not been finished
Possibility to create two bedrooms present
Bedroom with garden view, access by double door in wood, old floor tiles, plastered ceiling with plastered beams, marble chimney, and non-finished passage to the lobby of bedroom 2
On this floor the walls of bedroom 2 have also been stripped of wallpaper and need to be refreshed
Renovations to be foreseen in the adjoining room of bedroom 1 and the spacious bedrooms 3/4
Here connections are present
2nd FLOOR
Floor Attic
Attic with a living space height for the largest part and a revised and insulated roof
The floors with old floor tiles
Hallway - (11.65 m²)
Attic 1 - adjoining room - (46.00 m²)
Room - (31.00 m²)
Hallway - (2.00 m²)
Room - (12.50 m²)
Room - (7.50 m²)
EXTERIOR
Garden of - (666.00 m²) - situated in front and to the back of the house
Entrance to the property is by wrought iron gate dividing stone balustrades that borders the front garden of the house
From the gate a path in tiles to the tiled terrace
Lawns to both sides of the front garden and planting in the borders with among others lauriers roses, altéa and neffiers from Japan
2 large palm trees flank the entrance with the abri above the main entrance door
Part of the rear garden is accessed from the kitchen and the salon
Tiled terrace with BBQ and a variety of trees and bushes in this area bordered by walls
The garden could need some TLC/maintenance...but it is one of the best features of the Maison de Maître
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