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Farmhouse |5 bedrooms |Sleeps 14

La Fouillade in Midi-Pyrenees

From £1250 per week

7 nights minimum stay

Changeover Saturday

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Key info  Swimming pool, balcony/terrace, car advised, private garden, may take pets - please enquire

About the home

Enjoying lovely views across a valley, with a two-thirds of an acre garden and swimming pool, this former farmhouse and adjoining barn has been refurbished into a delightful and substantial holiday home. Enjoying a quiet, rural location on the edge of the farming hamlet of Trebessac deep in the Aveyron countryside, the 5-bedroomed house makes an ideal place for two to three families to enjoy a classic French country holiday. Walking, cycling and fishing opportunities abound and the house is ideally situated for local amenities.

Trebessac is just 3 kilometers from the town of La Fouillade, and a 20 minute drive from the vibrant market town of Villefranche de Rourgue. The spectacular medieval towns of Najac and Cordes-sur-ciel are just 10 minutes and 30 minutes away respectively. The increasingly fashionable St Antonin Noble Val with its famous Sunday market is a beautiful 40-minute drive from Trebessac. The vineyards of Cahors and Gaillac can both be reached within an hour and, as Aveyron has more ‘Plus beaux villages’ than any other department in France, beautiful villages are always nearby.

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Facilities
Luxuries: Log fire, DVD player x 2
General: TV (satellite) x 2, Video player, 3 x hi-fi equipment, Telephone, Internet
Standard: Kettle, Iron, Hair dryer
Utilities: Clothes dryer, Dish washer, Cooker, Fridge, Freezer, Microwave, Washing machine, Tumble dryer , Mobile air conditioning units x 2
Rooms: En suite bedrooms (3), 2 further bedrooms, Family bathroom), WCs (5)
Further information:
Refrurbished to high standards; comprehensively equipped.
Large Liebherr fridge/freezer, dishwasher, microwave in large, open kitchen/ dining room.
Spacious lounge with 3 sofas and 2 separate chairs , TV with integral video player and separate DVD player.
Top floor landing area has further sofa and further TV and DVD player – ideal play area for kids.
All beds have bedside tables with lamps.
All windows fitted with mosquito nets.


Furniture: Single beds (8), Double beds (4), Cots (1), Dining seating for 10, Lounge seating for 10, Sleeps maximum of 14
Other: Linen and towels provided.

Further details outdoors:
Private, fenced, walk-in pool (10 x 5m) with shallow and deep end, with loungers for all. Trampoline on lower lawn. Table tennis in the pool house, croquet, badminton and, of course, boules! Well equipped for outdoors eating. Large, gas-powered barbecue, separate wood-fired smoker and fire pit. Large dining table. Parasols, pool toys, paddling pool, two-thirds of an acre of lawned, landscaped gardens with beautiful rural views .

Further details

Local management provided by next door neighbour (French speaking only).

Conditions

A well-behaved dog is allowed but sorry, no cats. Please note, 2 working farms are in the adjacent hamlet.
Strictly no smoking in the house except on the balcony.
Refundable breakages deposit of £200 required on arrival, to be refunded within two weeks of your departure (subject to satisfactory property inspection).
25% of rental fee due six weeks before your stay to secure booking.

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Front of house and pool

 

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Pool and garden

 

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Pool and garden

 

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Living room

The Midi-Pyrenees / Aveyron region

Aveyron is still regarded as something of 'an undiscovered gem' - a beautiful rolling landscape dotted with historic and beatutiful towns and villages.
Trebessac is just 3 kilometers from the town of La Fouillade, and a 20 minute drive from the vibrant market town of Villefranche de Rourgue. The spectacular medieval towns of Najac and Cordes-sur-ciel are just 10 minutes and 30 minutes away respectively. The increasingly fashionable St Antonin Noble Val with its famous Sunday market is a beautiful 40-minute drive from Trebessac. The vineyards of Cahors and Gaillac can both be reached within an hour and, as Aveyron has more ‘Plus beaux villages’ than any other department in France, beautiful villages are always nearby.

The La Fouillade area

La Fouillade area
Set in an area with numerous medieval villages, famous bastide towns, chateaux, churches, deep river gorges and spectacular views across the plateaux.
A large range of restaurants from basic bistro to gastronomic sophistication are nearby, as are small supermarkets to major hypermarkets.

ACTIVITIES

Horse riding, canoeing, fishing, rail trips, rock climbing, wine tasting, museums, pot-holing, tennis and of course walking. Four cycles including children’s sizes are provided free of charge. Golf is available at Albi (18-hole delightful course – one of ‘Europe’s Top 500) approximately 60 minutes by car and there is a championship course at Rodez 50 minutes away. A well-kept 9-hole pitch and putt course is just 20 minutes away at Villefranche. Albi has a water-park for children and just north of Albi is the spectacular Cap Decouvert water sports centre set deep in a former quarry. And no vist to the region is complete without an excursion by canoe through the Aveyron Gorge beneath the stunning views of Najac Castle.
EXCURSIONS BY CAR
The area is delightful for driving around; the roads are good and the traffic is light. Cordes, Albi, Najac, Figeac, Cahors, Rodez are all worth a trip, as are smaller villages such as Bruniquel, Penne, Salveterre and Bocastel. For the more adventurous, drive over the Millau viaduct and through the Tarn Gorges down to the coast by Montpellier which is two and a half hours away.

How to get there

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Map showing the La Fouillade areaReset Map

Nearest Travel Links
Airport:
Rodez: 65 km
Toulouse: 125 km
Ferry:
Calais: 900km
St Malo: 780 km
The property is approximately 10 hours’ drive from the Channel Ports allowing for stops, less than 1 hour from Rodez Airport (served by Ryan Air from Stansted) and an hour and a half from Toulouse which has daily flights from Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Southampton, Manchester, Bristol and Dublin. By rail, the TGV travels from Paris to Toulouse from where there’s an easy link to Najac.

Activities near La Fouillade

Guestbook for Le Mel

We had a fantastic stay at your lovely house in Trebessac. What was particularly good was having use of kayaks,bicycles, books and games it truly felt like a home from home. The barbeque and the pool were well used enabling us to be outside lapping up the sun for most of the holiday.
The area your house is in is beautiful with so much to see and do; the highlight being St Cirque Lagapopie which was simply stunning.

Alison & David Cronk, Summer 2011

We were delighted with our stay at Trebessac. We rented it for my father's 80th birthday and had a wonderful gathering of all the family, old and young and middle-aged, and it was the perfect place for us all to stay. Enough chairs to seat people at mealtimes, both outside near the barbecue and inside in the dining room. And the pool and garden are lovely too. I'd thoroughly recommend Le Mel.

Frances Lowndes, Summer 2009

Rental prices

Prices for group size 14
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	13 Nov 11	1 Jan 12	1250£ 1250	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Jan 12	31 Mar 12	1250£ 1250	0-	0-	1 Week
	31 Mar 12	30 Jun 12	1400£ 1400	0-	0-	1 Week
	30 Jun 12	15 Sep 12	1600£ 1600	0-	0-	1 Week
	15 Sep 12	29 Dec 12	1250£ 1250	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Any week that includes an English Bank Holiday will be charged at £1,600 per week regardless of time of year.

Availability

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3 years listed You are contacting Inga Melville Landline +44 0208 8781886 Mobile n/a Languages spoken The owner is based in the United Kingdom and has advertised with Holiday Lettings since 2009. This farmhouse has so far received 0 reviews.