15th-Century Priory in the Anjou Forest Hamlet, France €470,000
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Benedictine Priory, Anjou Forest
About this property
A C-rated energy class in a 15th-century listed priory is not the sort of thing you expect to read, yet here we are. This former Benedictine monastery, built across the 15th and 17th centuries, has been fully and sympathetically restored without disturbing its bones: four stone-carved grotesques crown the roofline, mullioned windows frame the light, freestone fireplaces anchor each room, and terracotta floors run underfoot. French ceilings and exposed roofing framework on the upper floor add genuine architectural drama that no amount of interior design budget can replicate.
Across 250 m² of internal space, the ground floor holds a kitchen doubling as a living room, a lounge, a study, and a back kitchen with laundry and shower. The first floor offers a further lounge, bedroom, and shower room, while the second floor delivers two bedrooms each with ensuite facilities beneath the exposed timber framework. Outbuildings include a garage currently in use as an artist's studio and exhibition space, and the garden backs directly onto the Baugeois forest, part of which is available to purchase.
The hamlet sits ten minutes from character towns with shops, twenty minutes from Saumur's TGV connection to Paris, and forty minutes from Angers. The A85 motorway slip road is ten kilometres away. This is the rare combination of genuine seclusion and genuine connectivity, in a listed building that doesn't require a second mortgage just to keep warm.
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