Here’s a glimpse of our Normandy farmhouse we recently placed on the market. It makes an excellent home for a large family or chambre d’hotes (bed and breakfast). The 3 dependances (buildings) could be converted into gites (rentals), or give artisans plenty of space to work from home. One building even has a small, professional recording studio (sold without the equipment).
The house is located in Hambye, which is near beaches and large cities, making it ideal for short commutes to work or vacationers. Hambye is about 20-25 minutes from the beaches, Villedieu-les-Poeles, Coutances and Saint-Lô; 45 minutes from Mont Saint Michel, and 1 hr away from Caen.
Farmhouse features extra large windows throughout, so it’s luminous no matter the time of the day. Windows are double-pane and installed only 4 years ago by the previous owners. Being from Florida, the windows was one of the features that drew me to this house.
Size : 189 m2 (2,035 ft2).
Ground floor : Living room/dining room with a new Invicta wood burning stove (heats up the entire downstairs, and some of the upstairs), family room (or could be a 6th bedroom), gallery kitchen (updated Aug 2014), and full bathroom (with bathtub and separate shower). Downstairs features 18th century wood flooring that was imported from the UK. The upstairs also has wood floors, except for the shower room. There is an attached 40m2 atelier (garage).
2nd floor : 5 spacious bedrooms (master bedroom has private toilet & sink, and closet), WC, double shower, closet with washing machine hookups, and a very long hallway. There is also a closet for the water heater (purchased Sept 2014).
Attic : Large attic that expands over three of the bedrooms. It could easily be converted into living space.
Property : 2449 sq meters (0.60 acres) enclosed. The property features a variety of fruit trees – apple, pears, and cherries. Blackberries grow over the hedges, blueberries in the side garden, and raspberries in the front garden – a paradise for children! The driveway was recently landscaped in May 2014. There are two large buildings and a small ancient bakery. One of the large buildings is two-stories and could easily be converted into a 3 or 4 bedroom house, it even fenced off with it’s own garden. The other large building is used for storing firewood, parking, and storage of lawn equipment. The storage area could make a nice, small apartment one day (I was going to turn it into an art studio for me).
Neighbors : The house sits on a private cul-de-sac with only three other houses. All three houses are behind the farmhouse, with only one of the houses having a slight view to the entrance of the house. The rest of the property is completely private, surrounded by pastures. It’s a quiet and peaceful, yet not in the middle of nowhere.
Area : House is only a 2 minute drive from école maternelle et élémentaire, and downtown stores.
Price : 159,000€ for sale by owner, 168,540€ with Miles Immobilier (english-speaking, from the UK) or 170,000€ with Delamarche and Pozzo. Prices are set by our base price + realtor’s commission. This is why the price may vary depending on the real estate office you choose. We are offering our house for sale by owner to give you the option to buy it without paying a commission.
If you are interested for sale by owner, my father-in-law will be showing it during the winter. In Spring, my husband will be going up for several weeks for appointments.
Property is valued at over 190,000€, but we priced to sell before the baby is born. 🙂
More photos upon request.
Interested? : Contact me via this page or message me on Facebook, and then I will provide you with my phone number. I don’t want to post it here because of spammers.
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- View of the house from the front garden.
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- View of the house from the entrance gate
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- View of the house from the front garden
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- View of the garden from the front door. Recently landscaped.
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- View of one building. The first doors we use to store firewood, middle is storage for garden equipment, and large garage door you can park 1 car.
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- View of front garden from upstairs bedroom.
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- View of front garden from upstairs bedroom. Apple, pear, and cherry trees planted throughout.
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- Another angle of front garden. The ancient bakery is to the right, which I like to call the little cottage. To the left is the very large, 2 story building.
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- Another angle of front garden.
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- Entrance to side garden, where there is large, 2 store building – great for artisans, or can be converted into 3 or 4 bedroom gite/house.
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- Neighbor recently renovated their similar building – looks stunning! We priced it at 500 euros to do to this building. We were about to start, but we had to move too quickly.
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- View to the right after entering the house. Living room/dining room.
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- Left side of living room/dining room. Enter family room to left, kitchen to the right.
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- We used this as the family room/kids playroom.
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- Fireplace is closed, but heat comes from poele. There is enough wood flooring to finish this room, but we decided to leave the tile.
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- Kitchen recently updated. Comes equipped.
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- Full bathroom downstairs that includes and extra large bathtub, plus a separate shower.
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- Very spacious!
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- Solid stairs that features lots of storage space underneath. There is also a large window going up, so this room is always bright.
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- First bedroom upstairs.
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- First bedroom upstairs. Window looks out to large, side building and part of garden.
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- Second bedroom upstairs with view of front garden.
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- Third bedroom upstairs with view of front garden.
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- Fireplace is closed, but lovely deco.
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- Fourth bedroom upstairs with view of front garden.
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- Lots of space in this room!
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- As with the other bedrooms, it features large windows.
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- Master bedroom has a double built-in closet with shelving.
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- Two windows that are extra low, so you can look out at the view while laying in bed. To the right is a small WC with toilet and sink.
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- Glimpse of the view from the master bedroom.
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- View from the master bedroom of the garden to the side of our entrance.
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- LONG hallway! Kids love running up and down it at bedtime!
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- The first door on the right side of the hallway is to the shower room, second is to the water heater, and double closet is storage with water hookups for washing machine.
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- Shower room with tile floors. Only room upstairs with tile.
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- Water heater purchased Sept 2014.
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- We installed a washer/dryer combo up here, as it was more convient for me to do laundry. Also hookups in the kitchen.
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- Upstairs WC
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- Basic toilet 🙂
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- Sink. I had shelving next to it for kids to place their things.
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- On the landing to the right, there is a small niche. I built a double art table for the kids, but old owner had placed a little sofa there.
Our big plans for this house (over the next 10-15 years) was to convert half of the garage into an office for my husband, and the other half is my workshop. The large, 2 story building was going to be a guest house or gite. The other large building I was going to convert the middle, two story area into an art studio for me. The ancient bakery was going to be converted into a small cottage. The kids could play in it during the summer as a clubhouse, but it would have a wood burning stove and comfy sofa as a fun, winter romantic getaway. The cottage is two stories and is absolutely adorable inside.
We had lots of dreams for this place, and it was heartbreaking for us to move. I hope it provides as much comfort and joy to the next owners.
Is this house still for sale??
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