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#279 🏅77% SOLD • €87k • rustic • village • 390m² satellite • large village house near Carcassonne
OKAY 🔨 effort
GOOD 🚌 transport
GOOD ✈️ access
GOOD 🛒 shops
GOOD 🏙 towns
GOOD 🧗 activities
DODGY ☀️ climate
GOOD ⛰️ nature
OKAY 🌷 garden
OKAY 🏠 building
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Caunes, Haut Languedoc — near Carcassonne, Narbonne, (Beziers)
☃️3–9–18°☀️2.5☁️18 • 🍂13–25°☀️4☁️14
☃️3–9–18°☀️2.5☁️18 • 🍂13–25°☀️4☁️14
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Environment ✧ scrub and forested rocky hills and deep valleys, plains with vineyards; many trails from door; 1h beach
Services ✧ minimart, bakery, several restos
Access ✧ town 35mins bus: good airport +15mins shuttle; Barcelona ~3h, Paris 6h
Notes ✧ village sits at the bottom of the black mountains, a barely inhabited wilderness, ajusting the well inhabited plains
✦ 3 weekly markets, 1 good resto, 1 pizza, 1 cafe, 3 other/seasonal retos (Apr-Oct) including 1 tapas, and even a once-weekly homecooked takeaway
✦ paths from the door climbing 400m, and easier along edge, quite good biking climbing 1000m
✦ tennis 10mins walk
✦ some pleasant riverfront but only when it has water (rarely)
bus stop at door, 35–45mins to Carca (daily 8,9,11,1 out and in 12,3,4,5,6pm) / 25mins drive
✦ 20mins drive into forests, 40mins to peak
✦ 20mins to Trebes
✦ 20mins to water plan with sailing association (has 2 sup and 3 kayak but could buy some more to share and gain all-year access) or river for easy kayak/SUP
✦ several climbing spots
✦ 25mins to gorges with possible swimming spots (but droughts)
✦ 35mins to river beaches
✦ 45mins drive Narbonne / Limoux / book village and St–Pons/the greenway
✦ 1h beach / Mazamet / Beziers for occasional variation
climate is very windy and decidedly drab in the winter with lots of cloudy days but still a few sunny ones, a bit different from Beziers just a short distance; thus for the off season easy activities and good interior are important which should be handled if not in the best manner
✦ 3 weekly markets, 1 good resto, 1 pizza, 1 cafe, 3 other/seasonal retos (Apr-Oct) including 1 tapas, and even a once-weekly homecooked takeaway
✦ paths from the door climbing 400m, and easier along edge, quite good biking climbing 1000m
✦ tennis 10mins walk
✦ some pleasant riverfront but only when it has water (rarely)
bus stop at door, 35–45mins to Carca (daily 8,9,11,1 out and in 12,3,4,5,6pm) / 25mins drive
✦ 20mins drive into forests, 40mins to peak
✦ 20mins to Trebes
✦ 20mins to water plan with sailing association (has 2 sup and 3 kayak but could buy some more to share and gain all-year access) or river for easy kayak/SUP
✦ several climbing spots
✦ 25mins to gorges with possible swimming spots (but droughts)
✦ 35mins to river beaches
✦ 45mins drive Narbonne / Limoux / book village and St–Pons/the greenway
✦ 1h beach / Mazamet / Beziers for occasional variation
climate is very windy and decidedly drab in the winter with lots of cloudy days but still a few sunny ones, a bit different from Beziers just a short distance; thus for the off season easy activities and good interior are important which should be handled if not in the best manner
Property ✧ comes with an old 2CV to also restore!
✦ 305m2 footprint open on 3 sides, north onto quiet road, east onto lane and south onto square with tiny covered area and some plants (though most of the square is parking but hidden lower), would be fine as a terrace
✦ very akward layout as despithe the big footprint, is actually in 3 parts with a central lengthways wall that used to be part of the village fortifications thus quite deep, and technically two buildings one each side of the old wall
✦ roof ok and most redone except the south-east section and the north guttering
✦ the south-east section is ideal to open up for about 30m2 of roof terrace with BBQ which would have fantastic views over whole village, this section is entirely disconnected with its floors lower, thus likely best to rebuild them, to a matching level
✦ the south-east's 1st would be accessed via the extension with a slightly tight dorm of 2 bunk-beds for 4 pods, would probably have a spiral staircase down to 2 showers else the south-middle room would be eliminated for an extra bathroom and the new lintel required**
ground: north-east (huge garage) for kitchen, being centrally positioned means can carry out front, and is interconnected with new lintel to north-west dining-casual work/lounge (likely with banquettes and projector), extension would become pantry, possibly keeping 1st floor stairs
✦ south-east: 2 spacious bathrooms and dessing for pods; south-middle: 4-seat casual workspace (ergo desk to contrast dining-lounge); south-west quiet workspace (~9 desks)
✦ first: north 7 mezzanines (using attic), inconnected through extension to south-east with 4 pods (cosy but tall with 2 windows) and a spiral staircase to showers below; new lintel**
✦ south-middle: bathroom and WC, plus an additional bedroom (large south window), south-west: sunny library-lounge with new french doors as juliet balconies
✦ ** interconnecting north bedrooms to south staircase (else new staircase or keep in extension) the attic has an opening through the wall thus shouldn't be impossible to place a lintel even if simply deconstructing down from the attic, but given the wall's depth it may be too much work
✦ attics: north used by mezzanines, with pods might be tricky with standing only below the apex thus for semi-open (pairs facing except one semi-private)
✦ the south-middle attic would need to provide access to the terrace, thus would only be for utility and probably laudry (this room would be sealed from the stairwell thus permitting airflow and probably open to the terrace, for maximum laundry drying lines could hang above the glasshouse)
✦ the south-west attic could provide two private loft pods
7 mezzanines (north), 1 room (south), 2 loft pods, 4 pods (bunks) = 13
✦ or 4 rooms (north), 1 room (south), 2 loft pods, 4 pods (bunks), 5 pods (attic) = 16 and if lintel not possible, extra bathroom in south-middle and that room moves to north replacing bathroom
bikes would probably go in the south-middle/casual workspace and stairwell
✦ no callroom but anybody making calls should take a mezzanine
✦ the extension currently has an open 1st floor terrace and gets south exposure, would plausibly be nice if a glasshouse with a small balcony and work perches, and greenery planted below in the kitchen pantry
✦ 305m2 footprint open on 3 sides, north onto quiet road, east onto lane and south onto square with tiny covered area and some plants (though most of the square is parking but hidden lower), would be fine as a terrace
✦ very akward layout as despithe the big footprint, is actually in 3 parts with a central lengthways wall that used to be part of the village fortifications thus quite deep, and technically two buildings one each side of the old wall
✦ roof ok and most redone except the south-east section and the north guttering
✦ the south-east section is ideal to open up for about 30m2 of roof terrace with BBQ which would have fantastic views over whole village, this section is entirely disconnected with its floors lower, thus likely best to rebuild them, to a matching level
✦ the south-east's 1st would be accessed via the extension with a slightly tight dorm of 2 bunk-beds for 4 pods, would probably have a spiral staircase down to 2 showers else the south-middle room would be eliminated for an extra bathroom and the new lintel required**
ground: north-east (huge garage) for kitchen, being centrally positioned means can carry out front, and is interconnected with new lintel to north-west dining-casual work/lounge (likely with banquettes and projector), extension would become pantry, possibly keeping 1st floor stairs
✦ south-east: 2 spacious bathrooms and dessing for pods; south-middle: 4-seat casual workspace (ergo desk to contrast dining-lounge); south-west quiet workspace (~9 desks)
✦ first: north 7 mezzanines (using attic), inconnected through extension to south-east with 4 pods (cosy but tall with 2 windows) and a spiral staircase to showers below; new lintel**
✦ south-middle: bathroom and WC, plus an additional bedroom (large south window), south-west: sunny library-lounge with new french doors as juliet balconies
✦ ** interconnecting north bedrooms to south staircase (else new staircase or keep in extension) the attic has an opening through the wall thus shouldn't be impossible to place a lintel even if simply deconstructing down from the attic, but given the wall's depth it may be too much work
✦ attics: north used by mezzanines, with pods might be tricky with standing only below the apex thus for semi-open (pairs facing except one semi-private)
✦ the south-middle attic would need to provide access to the terrace, thus would only be for utility and probably laudry (this room would be sealed from the stairwell thus permitting airflow and probably open to the terrace, for maximum laundry drying lines could hang above the glasshouse)
✦ the south-west attic could provide two private loft pods
7 mezzanines (north), 1 room (south), 2 loft pods, 4 pods (bunks) = 13
✦ or 4 rooms (north), 1 room (south), 2 loft pods, 4 pods (bunks), 5 pods (attic) = 16 and if lintel not possible, extra bathroom in south-middle and that room moves to north replacing bathroom
bikes would probably go in the south-middle/casual workspace and stairwell
✦ no callroom but anybody making calls should take a mezzanine
✦ the extension currently has an open 1st floor terrace and gets south exposure, would plausibly be nice if a glasshouse with a small balcony and work perches, and greenery planted below in the kitchen pantry
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