3 Danjou
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#354 🥈85% €197k • historic • village • 1000m² mini-hub • classic house with huge garden
POOR 🔨 effort
OKAY 🚌 transport
OKAY ✈️ access
GOOD 🛒 shops
OKAY 🏙 towns
GOOD 🧗 activities
GOOD ☀️ climate
GOOD ⛰️ nature
GREAT 🌷 garden
GREAT 🏠 building
GOOD ⛲️ hood
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Chalabre, southern France — near Mirepoix, Foix, Limoux, (Carcassonne)
☃️2–10–18°☀️9☁️10 • 🍂14–26°☀️8☁️9
☃️2–10–18°☀️9☁️10 • 🍂14–26°☀️8☁️9
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Environment ✧ rolling hills, partly agricultural at base of mountains; paths on doorstep
Services ✧ minimart, etc
Access ✧ bus 10mins pickup; stations 40mins, +1h10 Toulouse, 6h15 Paris €35 or overnight
Dedicated units likely for part-time use only.
Area ✧ decently rural yet not dead (mix of expats and locals with corresponding restos and cafes sevricing them), large (can accommodate enough people and programs to be reasonably dynamic), reasonably interesting landscape with better features within driving distance
✦ as the village is fairly lively an an expat hub, could be a good minihub
this location is very quiet and rural with pretty villages and a few cafés/restos, the lovely little town of Mirepoix at 25mins drive and Limoux 30mins, plus 2 less interesting ones at a similar distance. For a margin more interest there's Carcassonne at 50mins though a bit far except for occasional outings, which could also extend to Castelnaudry, Revel, Essentially very limited access to cosmopolitan life thus would be within, however with its capacity once completed this property would support a fair bit of dynamism (including a residency program)
at the base of the pyrenees, not far from several cathar castles; lots of good hiking, lake 15mins bike, sailing/kayak/sup 15mins drive, horse riding, paragliding launch site; lakes are good for swimming and likely river spots; SUP would be possible with own boards
✦ it's worth noting that the lake has suffered due to droughts as its actually an agricultural resevoir, however there is a plan to reirection part of another stream to supplement its supply and this seems likely given the tourism it brings
the village has a small supermarket, pizzeira, cafe, hotel-resto but amazingly no bakery (one will probably open as only recently closed)
✦ right next door is a brewery, and 10mins drive/30 bike is its taproom-cafe
an old railway greenway of 80km passes connecting with the two towns (1h bike) plus the Monsegur ruins, and nearby villages for easy exploring by bike, two having a brewery (15mins)
✦ nearest skiing 45mins drive
✦ fair winters, low mean at 10° but hot days of 18° with 8 days sun
✦ there's a yoga retreat a short walk away
✦ village/bus 20mins bike on greenway or town/bus 45mins by bike on greenway
only a couple of hikes from the door but, more challenging from 30mins drive
✦ lots of paths for moderately challenging biking, with a good number of official waymarked routes around Chalabre one having 1000m+ ascent which is fairly easily acheived all around; but 1h on trails to more interesting terrain, or 30mins drive for dropoff at the base of mountains; or 3 long 3h+ ride will get one up to 1600m with a entirely downhill return (partly road)
access is passable but arguably a bit of fun and pickups are possible in just 10mins drive from two routes thus the overhead is not high (versus having to drive for over an hour just to collect one person), even if journeys are a bit labourious:
✦ from Toulouse (airport and mainline for Paris at 4h30), train to Foix (1h10) + bus to Lavelanet (40mins, last 6:30pm); also possible via Pamiers (train 1h; bus 1h, last 8:20pm which is unusually good)
✦ from Carcassonne (airport and mainline for Barcelona at 3h with a change), train to Limoux (25mins) + bus to Chalabre (45mins)
✦ pickups from the stations would be rare given the driving time but would be coordinated with market days and outings
a runabout (e.g. 2CV/ami) would probably be made available in addition to a minibus
✦ the bus is 35mins to Limoux with a few inbound during the afternoon but last 5:30pm, but out for shopping is not entirely useful as shortest trip after lunch gives 2h45 until the next but is fine in the summer with 2h
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✦ as the village is fairly lively an an expat hub, could be a good minihub
this location is very quiet and rural with pretty villages and a few cafés/restos, the lovely little town of Mirepoix at 25mins drive and Limoux 30mins, plus 2 less interesting ones at a similar distance. For a margin more interest there's Carcassonne at 50mins though a bit far except for occasional outings, which could also extend to Castelnaudry, Revel, Essentially very limited access to cosmopolitan life thus would be within, however with its capacity once completed this property would support a fair bit of dynamism (including a residency program)
at the base of the pyrenees, not far from several cathar castles; lots of good hiking, lake 15mins bike, sailing/kayak/sup 15mins drive, horse riding, paragliding launch site; lakes are good for swimming and likely river spots; SUP would be possible with own boards
✦ it's worth noting that the lake has suffered due to droughts as its actually an agricultural resevoir, however there is a plan to reirection part of another stream to supplement its supply and this seems likely given the tourism it brings
the village has a small supermarket, pizzeira, cafe, hotel-resto but amazingly no bakery (one will probably open as only recently closed)
✦ right next door is a brewery, and 10mins drive/30 bike is its taproom-cafe
an old railway greenway of 80km passes connecting with the two towns (1h bike) plus the Monsegur ruins, and nearby villages for easy exploring by bike, two having a brewery (15mins)
✦ nearest skiing 45mins drive
✦ fair winters, low mean at 10° but hot days of 18° with 8 days sun
✦ there's a yoga retreat a short walk away
✦ village/bus 20mins bike on greenway or town/bus 45mins by bike on greenway
only a couple of hikes from the door but, more challenging from 30mins drive
✦ lots of paths for moderately challenging biking, with a good number of official waymarked routes around Chalabre one having 1000m+ ascent which is fairly easily acheived all around; but 1h on trails to more interesting terrain, or 30mins drive for dropoff at the base of mountains; or 3 long 3h+ ride will get one up to 1600m with a entirely downhill return (partly road)
access is passable but arguably a bit of fun and pickups are possible in just 10mins drive from two routes thus the overhead is not high (versus having to drive for over an hour just to collect one person), even if journeys are a bit labourious:
✦ from Toulouse (airport and mainline for Paris at 4h30), train to Foix (1h10) + bus to Lavelanet (40mins, last 6:30pm); also possible via Pamiers (train 1h; bus 1h, last 8:20pm which is unusually good)
✦ from Carcassonne (airport and mainline for Barcelona at 3h with a change), train to Limoux (25mins) + bus to Chalabre (45mins)
✦ pickups from the stations would be rare given the driving time but would be coordinated with market days and outings
a runabout (e.g. 2CV/ami) would probably be made available in addition to a minibus
✦ the bus is 35mins to Limoux with a few inbound during the afternoon but last 5:30pm, but out for shopping is not entirely useful as shortest trip after lunch gives 2h45 until the next but is fine in the summer with 2h
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Property ✧ advertised by agent at 295k but direct at 197k🤷 may be significant reduction to sell quickly which at this price it will; more likely a typo, however still negociable
✦ 3 floors of 200m2 plus an attic with low windows but almost fully usable and easily having skylights added plus a cellar, no windows and potentially low but certainly suitable for a cinema room, and possibly laundry etc; so technically 1000m2 but not usefully so
✦ large stairwell
✦ many rooms are large meaning dividing them especially for ensuites would be awkward but larger rooms would be more impressive
✦ 1350m2 garden with trees could easily add an orangerie backing onto half the building for more common space
✦ parcels 807, 154
✦ 3 floors of 200m2 plus an attic with low windows but almost fully usable and easily having skylights added plus a cellar, no windows and potentially low but certainly suitable for a cinema room, and possibly laundry etc; so technically 1000m2 but not usefully so
✦ large stairwell
✦ many rooms are large meaning dividing them especially for ensuites would be awkward but larger rooms would be more impressive
✦ 1350m2 garden with trees could easily add an orangerie backing onto half the building for more common space
✦ parcels 807, 154
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