About the House

Asking price 100,000 euro  plus notiers fees of approx 8% The house is built of thick natural limestone walls - in places 4 ft thick - under a traditional terracotta roman tuile roof the house has natural charm. the house is set almost at the highest point of the village on a limestone ridge, in prehistory the land was sea bed, the rock the barns  & house walls are made from contain many fossils, in places where a garden wall or old wall has fallen you  can find the fossils, my boys made a collection. local history says the...

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a little bit of the history of the house

history of the house :- The area the village stands on is limestone, the limestone has fossils in it, lots & lots of them, all of sea creatures because in pre history it was sea bed, hard to believe when you  are well above sea level & 30km in from the coast, but when we removed a small barn wall that was beyond repair every time a stone fractured it seems we found a fossil, when we dug out to make a patio....more fossils, my kids & visiting kids were delighted & they kept a collection of the best. The name of the farmhouse...

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a short description

*PHOTO LINKS -see end of page .... Asking price 100,000 euro + fees  The house is in the Vendee, the 2nd sunniest sunshine records region of France. Vendee benefits from a micro climate due to the effect of the gulfstream passing close to the vendean coastline, this gives the same mild climate as the isles of scilly & the channel islands, it's not uncommon to see palm or banana plants flourishing in gardens built well over 200...

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