Luxury 17th century Manor House situated in a peaceful hamlet 8km from Casteljaloux.

General Features

· Sleeps 16
· Eight spacious en-suite bedrooms
· Separate Tower accommodation
· Large heated pool in floodlit walled garden
· Period/Antique furnishing throughout
· Stocked with over 230 bottles of Chateaux wine
· Gamesroom: pooltable, tabletennis, exercise machines
· Barbecue, TV

Manoir COUTENSON is a beautifully restored Manor House built around 1790. Extensive delicate restoration over two years has taken this house to a high standard.

The entrance to the property is through two imposing electrically operated gates, which open onto a short sweeping gravelled drive leading to the house. At night the trees along the drive are floodlit when entering or leaving the property.

Entrance
Large entrance hall with exposed stonewalls, earth fired coloured floor tiles, beamed ceiling, wall hangings and period furniture. Main stairway to bedrooms above. Door leading onto rear garden.

Kitchen
Very spacious, stunning kitchen, heavily oak beamed. Large oak table seats 8/10. All units French style, made of solid quality oak. The kitchen is fully equipped - washing machine, dishwasher, microwave, fridge / freezer. All utensils including cutlery and pots and pans are of good quality. Table and chairs. Window overlooking pool, walled garden and entrance drive

Games Room
Built within the walled garden is the games room with Pool table, darts table games, exercise machines and others children games. Adjoining this room alongside the abri is the table tennis, then shower and toilet.

Lounge
Entered via the main hall or directly through double doors from the garden. The double aspect lounge, measuring 32ft x 17ft has two fireplaces, one at each end of the room. Decorated in an oak beamed rustic manner, it is extremely well furnished with numerous items of French period furniture, table, chairs and rugs throughout. A recess in the main lounge is stocked with over 100 bottles of wine from around the region. Each Chateau bottled wine is marked with its price. We have tried to give a reasonable coverage of prices and selection. Further details on our fact sheet.

Dining Arrangements
Outside: most of the time you will find yourselves eating outside under the abri alongside the pool, two large tables seat 16, its very idealistic, lots of plants, lights all around the walls, floodlit pool, or just dine by candlelight.
Inside on the right, off the hall, is the more formal dining room, very well furnished, seating for 16, large open fireplace should you ever need to use it. This room looks out onto the pool area, the meadow and woods to the rear of the house.
Tower: dining table and chairs for 4
Kitchen: large oak table seats 8/10

Ground Floor Bedroom
A very spacious room directly off the far end of the lounge. Door opening onto rear garden. Although the bathroom/toilet is not an integral part of this room, it is only two steps outside the bedroom in the middle lobby. From the entrance of the house to this bedroom there are no steps and it is therefore suitable for anyone unable to use the stairs.

Second Hallway / Lobby
This is the middle section of the house with a second stairway to the second landing upstairs. The lobby is accessed from the main hall, lounge and downstairs bedroom. There is a separate toilet in this lobby area useful for more general use.

Tower
Separate entrance directly from the garden. All walls in exposed original stone, beamed ceiling, well furnished lounge with open staircase leading to very spacious en-suite bedroom. The tower rooms are ideal for anyone wishing to have more private accommodation from the main house. Each room is 17ft x 14ft. Dining table and chairs for 4.

Bedrooms - Main House
Two separate stairways lead up to 6 lovely bedrooms approached from two landings. Huge oak beams supporting the main roof structure have been incorporated into each of these six bedrooms. All bedrooms are en-suite, fully carpeted and finely furnished. (One bedroom only has its toilet positioned outside the room, due to plumbing difficulties).
The main upstairs hallway has a polished floor, lovely rugs, antique desk and chair with a window overlooking the front garden.

Garden
There is plenty of garden around the house, in all about 4 acres, laid mostly to lawn with an abundance of shrubs, flowers and trees.
On the right side of the house is a large swimming pool set in a beautiful walled garden. Within this garden is a large covered veranda with outside seating for 16 people and a barbecue built into the wall. This part of the garden is ideal for eating out on warm evenings and enjoying the pool, which is only a few feet away.
The land to the rear of the house is laid to lawn, opening onto a field of over 2 acres which is full of wild meadow flowers and an abundance of insects from ladybirds to butterflies. The whole property is fenced.

Pool
Heated pool - all one depth of 1.4m.

Smoke detectors fitted throughout the house
High chair and cot.