Garden House Place du Marche

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Townhouse |4 bedrooms |Sleeps 6

Richelieu in Loire Valley

From £475 per week

Short stays welcome

Changeover Saturday

4 out of 5

1 review | Write a review

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

About the home

This large property, retaining many original features, is entered through the oak doors facing onto the historical Place du Marche. It is divided into two houses connected by a central corridor. The Front Town House is not rented out and is kept locked. The renovated 4 bedroom, 3 bathrooms) Garden House (pictured above), with all rooms overlooking the secluded south facing back garden is the house offered for holiday rentals. This is entered from the wisteria, shaded, open air, central courtyard and has a large patio with built in paddling pool and outdoor seating. The courtyard also has outdoor furniture and BBQ. The house is suitable for families, child and toddler friendly, with the the owners baby/children equipment all available if required. ( free of charge and full list of equipment on request). The south facing walled garden is completely enclosed and a great place to relax with your children, or pets which are allowed on request.
There is no need to drive anywhere! All the facilities of a small town are just a short walk. No problems with parking either! This is free outside the house and all around the Square.
The 1000 acre Park, just two minutes walk, has outdoor swimming pool and children's paddling play area(summer only), tennis, play areas, mini zoo and it is great for walking and cycling. There are many exciting things to do and visit for day trips. Futuroscope, leisure parks with watersports and lakebeaches are all within a short drive. There are excellent golf courses in the area, all withing 45 minutes drive. Many of the famous Chateaux and Historical towns of Chinon, Saumur, Tours and Poitiers are just a short drive from Richelieu(itself a famous historical area)and these outings can be combined with tours of local vineyards including the Champagne(method). There are weekly local markets, fetes and outdoor activities in the area and full details of these can be found on the Richelieu town website or in the tourist office which is in the Place du Marche. Free WIFI is also available for those who need to keep in touch with work or home!

Facilities

Further details indoors:
The house is arranged over three floors connected by the original wooden staircase. On the ground floor there is a modern pine kitchen/dining area.This has spacious storage, new ceramic hob and fan oven, microwave, two fridge freezers, large oak dining table and fully equipped for 6 and baby. The entrance hallway leads to the living room with two sofas, large flat screen TV+DVD, cd and mp3/ipod players, wood burning stove and a large collection of books/CD's games etc. The living room has double doors(with safety gate if required) opening onto the patio and garden. The ground floor also has a large bathroom and shower, with utility area(washing machine/dryer/iron and board) and a separate toilet. The first floor has two huge wood floored bedrooms both with newly refurbished adjacent bathrooms - The yellow room (with double bed and an extra single bed) has the large bathroom, shower and a separate toilet and the Blue Room (with double bed and full size cot )has a fully tiled shower room and toilet. On the second floor are a further two large double bedrooms. The Pink has twin single beds and a travel cot and the green a double bed and a single bed.
Although the house has 4 large bedrooms and can sleep 10 it is only offered for rental for a maximum of 6+baby.

The house is child/toddler friendly with an inventory of all our baby/child equipment ( free to borrow.)

Further details outdoors:
The walled back garden is mainly laid to lawn with established fruit trees and Rose bushes. It is completely private and due to Cardinal Richelieu's town plan enjoys the sun from sunrise to sunset. The patio area has sun loungers and a large table and chairs seating 8. The built in paddling pool (converted from a garden pond!) is great for cooling off in or for children to play in.

The central courtyard is also a great area for children to safely play in as completely enclosed from the square outside by large original oak doors. We also use this area for eating outside and there is a BBQ and table and chairs for 6. The Oak doors lead directly to the Market Square, with cafe life, restaurants and Boulangerie, Charcuterie, Supermarket, Bank and Post office all a few minutes walk. Parking is available in the Square outside the front doors. Local Farmers Markets are held in Les Halles on Mondays and Fridays.

Further details

The Garden House is available with the House, Garden and Courtyard for the sole use for your holiday. We have an English (french speaking) caretaker who lives close by who can arrange to get in shopping for your arrival and she can usually arrange local people for babysitting if required.
Although sleeping 10 the garden house is rented out for a maximum of 6 + baby unless agreed with the owner on the rental agreement.

Conditions

A 20% of rental fee is required on booking. The balance is payable 8 weeks before departure.
A 200euro or £200 cash deposit is payable to caretaker on hand over of keys and will be refunded at end of a stay subject to satisfactory property inspection.

Strickly no smoking in the house (many original wooden floors, staircases etc) but is permitted in all exterior areas.
Changeover day is Saturday and the house is available between 15.00 and 19.00 on day of arrival (accurate times must be confirmed on arrival day with caretaker) Other times can be arranged to suit travel arrangements but out of hours charges might apply. The house must be vacated by 10am on day of departure.
Early and mid season alternative start dates can be arranged if house is available.

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Garden House with Patio and Paddling Pool

 

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Cafes just a walk across the Square

 

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Welcome to our French holiday house!

 

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Garden House Door from Main Oak Door Entrance

The Loire Valley / Indre-et-Loire region

The South Loire area offers a temperate climate between April and October. Richelieu ia a quiet town not overrun by tourists at any time. It is on the border of Poitou Charentes and Indre loire. It is a great location for visiting the many famous medieval towns of Chinon, Tours, Poitiers and Saumur,Fontevraud, Villandry and Azay la Rideau are all within an hours drive.
Futuroscope is also a great place to visit if you are able to choose a time out of French School holidays. UK half terms and Easter breaks are often different from the French.

The zoo at Douay and Monkey world also prove popular with children. Close to Saumur are interesting troglydyte attractions, mushroom farms and at Gratien and Meyer demonstration and tastings of Champagne(method!) production. Chinon vinyards are based along the Vienne and well worth a visit for both the Chinon reds and local Rose wines

The Richelieu area

Richelieu is an ideal location for a quiet, relaxing holiday in a typical French market town. It is called the garden of France and the twice weekly market in les Halles reflects this with local farmers selling their produce. There are also fetes, concerts, wine fairs and broquante days held in the Place du Marche and in surrounding villages. Details can always be obtained from the Tourist office next to les Halles.
There are numerous local vinyards( our house book lists many of these that we have tried.) Restaurants in small villages with amazing value all inclusive menus. There are many Michelin starred ones too. There are several local cafes and restaurants in town with good value meals and Vins du Maison! It is great to be able to use these amenities in the Place du Marche, letting children, especially young teenagers, if they wish (as ours do), return to the safety of the house where we have satellite TV, a DVD library and free WIFI available for your own internet access.

How to get there

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By Air: Tours or Poitiers Airports (car hire at both) 50 minute drive to house.
By train: TGV to Chatellerault, Tours or Poitiers. (30 minute drive from Chatellerault)
By Ferry: Newhaven Dieppe 4 hour drive to house, Portsmouth Caen 3 hours drive, Dover Calais 6 hours.
Eurotunnell Folkstone Bologne 6 hours drive

Activities near Richelieu

Reviews

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18 Jan 2012

“historic but very comfortable house in superb location” Have visited this 17th century yet very well equipped and comfortable house twice with extended family including teenagers and an aunt and grandmother in their eighties. The property felt like a home and all loved it and coped easily with the spiral staircase. The location in the main square in Richelieu is ideal. Restaurants bars and shops are a stone's throw away yet the thick walls mean that the secluded garden at the back of the property is totally tranquil and a perfect place to retreat with a good book , to sunbathe or simply for an afternoon snooze. The town is of great historic interest and also within easy reach of a number of chateaux - don' t miss the gardens at Villandry. The towns of Chinon and Saumur have some great shops and Tours is a fascinating city. Don't miss the Friday market in Richelieu - amazing fish, vegetables, cheeses and other local produce. Would definitely return.

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Guestbook for Garden House Place du Marche

West family July 2011

Loved the house.
Good living accommodation and garden. Everything we needed - home from home.
Richelieu is beautiful. Enjoyed being on the square although town unexpectedly very quiet. Handy Shopi and boulangeries. Loved early morning bike rides round the park. Used local swimming pool - not too busy and very practical round the corner.

S.Tomlinson August 2011
Your house is in the perfect location to be able to walk out for dinner in the evenings, and to drive to chateaux on the Loire. We really enjoyed the benefit of both these hugely. We ate in local restaurants in the evenings, enjoyed the fete in the square and the market was fun. My husband relied on the internet access to communicate with work and the children (5 & 2 yrs) loved the paddling pool and the bonus of having Sky tv.


Albeiz family .Queensland, Australia Sept 2011
We loved the wonderful medieval town of Richelieu & the way the house opened directly onto the square made us feel at the centre of everything. The history of the town & the proximity of all essentials as well as the fabulous adjoining park really fired our imaginations.

'Terrific Golf week.. we played every day, only rained once. Our favourite course was Golf du Touraine at Tours.Loved the local restaurants (especially Le cardinal)' Camberley Golf group July 2010

We absolutely loved our week in Richelieu. Your house was just perfect for our young family - Louis (2) just loved the toys and paddling pool and his cot and Henry (7 months) was also v happy too. As were we... we loved our evenings outside, getting croissants each morning and enjoying the wonderful park. Great to have have your recommended babysitter (we ended up using Phoebe's friend, Suzanne, for two nights!)
We will definitely be back in touch in the future for a future booking.
Thank you too for such helpful emails ahead of our stay and of course all of the useful information you hold at the house. We had a great week!
Many thanks
- Emma and Russell Speirs (August 10)



'Great for the children's french! Sent them shopping to Boulangerie and Shopi each day. Very relaxing and hardly used the car as everything we needed in walking distance.' Mc farlane family- Scotland July 09

Thank you, we'll book again! Great town and cafes for the elderly Grandparents. The children loved the park,doing the local shopping for us and running through the fountain. Very useful house book. Lindsey Sept2010.
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Rental prices

Prices for group size 2
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Early	31 Mar 12	5 May 12	475£ 475	0-	0-	1 Week
	5 May 12	16 Jun 12	500£ 500	0-	0-	1 Week
	16 Jun 12	14 Jul 12	550£ 550	0-	0-	1 Week
	14 Jul 12	1 Sep 12	700£ 700	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Sep 12	29 Sep 12	550£ 550	0-	0-	1 Week

Prices for group size 4
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Early	31 Mar 12	5 May 12	500£ 500	0-	0-	1 Week
Mid	5 May 12	16 Jun 12	550£ 550	0-	0-	1 Week
	16 Jun 12	14 Jul 12	625£ 625	0-	0-	1 Week
	14 Jul 12	1 Sep 12	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Sep 12	29 Sep 12	625£ 625	0-	0-	1 Week
	29 Sep 12	20 Oct 12	550£ 550	0-	0-	1 Week

Prices for group size 6
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Early	31 Mar 12	6 May 12	550£ 550	0-	0-	1 Week
	6 May 12	16 Jun 12	600£ 600	0-	0-	1 Week
	16 Jun 12	14 Jul 12	650£ 650	0-	0-	1 Week
	14 Jul 12	1 Sep 12	750£ 750	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Sep 12	29 Sep 12	650£ 650	0-	0-	1 Week
	29 Sep 12	20 Oct 12	600£ 600	0-	0-	1 Week

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

Weekly tariff is in pounds. Payable by Bank Transfer in GBP or Euros.(conversion rate at time of booking) or by cheque.

Rental Rates given for 2,4 and 6 persons (babies in cot do not count as an occupant)

Reductions for 2 / 4 person rates only valid if using 1 / 2 double rooms. If 3/4 bedrooms are occupied full tariff will apply.

Included in Tariff: WiFi, bedlinen, towels, electricity and water.

Logs available for wood stove if required.

70 euro surcharge per week if supplement heating required payable to caretaker.

Equipment for children and babies available free on request.

End of cleaning charge is included if property is left in the same clean and tidy condition that it was accepted in at start of rental. If not a minimum 50 euro charge will be payable to the caretaker.

Deposit of 200 euros or £200 is payable to caretaker on arrival

Availability

See below for next 9 months' availability - to see the next 24 months click here

Availability notes:

The property is not available to rent during winter months -November to March.

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4 years listed You are contacting Sheelagh Dunk Landline +44 01273 732838 Mobile +44 07729 110038 Languages spoken The owner is based in the United Kingdom and has advertised with Holiday Lettings since 2008. This townhouse has received 1 review from previous guests.