Tournissan
property details
for a Hub House co-operative coliving project

Environment ✧ small scrub hills with jagged valleys and vineyards; hikes at door; beach 45mins

Services ✧ bar/cafe,

Access ✧ station 30mins drive/1h bus: 2h15 Barcelona, 5h Paris or night train; Carca airport 50mins drive

Dedicated units likely for part-time use only.

Area ✧ this would be a mild isolated and very calm satellite with limited works, yet having a decent number of activities
✦ with the beach at 45mins and having other things to explore (salt mine, marshes, villages) plus windsurfing, this would be a moderately common outing, representing one of only a couple of properties offering this

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bar/cafe and good tavern resto, nothing else
✦ 15mins bike/bus to Saint-Laurent (minimart, restos), 25mins bike to Lagrasse (cafes, restos, river splashing); both with weekly markets
✦ Narbonne 30mins drive or 1h bus (7,12,14 <> 12,14,17,18)

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located next to some nicely eroded red hills great for walks and biking from the door, also possible to eventually ascend to 650m (2h bike) in two directions
✦ can walk over to the popular pretty (mildly touisty in summer) village of Lagrasse (1h30)
✦ climbing, cathar castle, kayaking, sup all 30mins drive
✦ 45mins drive Carca/Beziers/Beach, a lake with sailing/sup
✦ 1h for a few other locations such as Limoux, Perpignan, more castles, gorges, a book village, …
✦ (the upper aude valley is too far, thus better kayaking and mountains are out of reach)

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dreary winters but a degree better than Carca/the valley due to being slightly protected; dry summers, though the little river in some of the villages can keep some water but not enough for splashing, except shoulder season

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access from Paris is surprisingly not good except for night train, with last reasonablefor bus without pickup leaving midday but fine from London and a few other places; night train departs 10pm and arrives 10am for €50 thus very reasonable
✦ there's also a Carcassonne–Lagrasse bus which at 10mins dropoff is plausible for airport connections if only 3 times daily but at 1h15 is no good for outings which would always be driving

Property ✧ very presentable and solid, with easy work and a seperated section already mostly well renovated and usable but not really preservable, thus strictly #295 even though requiring more work is a much better proposition having more capacity, a quick train into the city, plus good access to the mountain and even closer to beaches (35mins)
✦ 105k would probably be accepted, empty for over 15 years
✦ ~110m2 per floor *3
✦ lovely spacious semi-circular staircase, and other features such as floor tiles
✦ second staircase in separated section would be removed and the two sides would need to be rejoined but minor except for the loss of (much?) of the renovation works thus bad value in this respect and the higher cost may not be worthwhile though a much nicer building than #284 however that has a station and garden
✦ all 8 windows across the full length of every floor face south into plane trees, also a couple of west side windows; all usable as is until replaced
✦ perfect to divide into rooms of about 1.8m wide and 5.2m deep as a compact ensuite with great window above the bed at full width with having end access only, a mini desk, storage, and a decent shower, but some may be singles
✦ 16.5 int length
  ✧ ground: mainly open-plan kitchen/dining/lounge/casual workspace
  ✧ 1st: 5 standard rooms (~10m2), 1 plus (12m2 with extra side window), 1 premium (~16m2 with 2 windows, balcony); stairwell and hall here would have no natural light, thus the 2nd floors would need aa skylight
  ✧ 2nd: quiet workspace/library-lounge; 4-bed dorm with 3 windows, balcony, 2 bathrooms
✦ sometimes the upstairs workspace-lounge would become lively and workspace would thus shift to the downstairs lounge or own room
✦ 2 small balconies, would be worth adding another at the top west window for afternoon/evening sun
✦ top floors has some views, and could be increased with rear window
✦ apparently has a garden but not near unless the walled plot across the road next to the marie, which is 220m2 with a shed and remains of a chopped down fig tree; would be great to convert to an orangerie, and if not included is abandoned so could be acquired
✦ there's a public garden a stone's throw (really just some land with trees and picnic benches)
✦ unless there's a garden where a shed could be constructed, space for bikes woudl be limited, but there's a number of abandoned garage buildings that could be rented if not acquired cheaply