La Miraille - Maison de Maître - for sale €599,000 - beautifully renovated 3 storey house in the Village of Olonzac, in the Minervois, Southern France

The property comprises 4 elements: a fully refurbished house (370m² on 3 floors), a 2-storey space inside the house (80m²), a separate barn (200m² on 2 floors), and a garden (330m²). The house and garden have been fully refurbished in 2006 and are ready for immediate occupation with all modern comforts.

The plot looks like this (not to scale):

The internal space in the house and the separate barn remain to be developed if desired.

The internal space, which occupies 2 storeys, lends itself for conversion into a one or two bed apartment, perhaps with a mezzanine. For this, there would be 3 possibilities in ascending order of cost: the first would be to leave the internal entrance as it is, thereby requiring access from inside the house; the second would be to create access to the first floor from the drive below, thereby securing independent access; the third option would be to create access from the games rooms below (which has access to the outside), thereby creating a 3-storey dwelling, without losing functional accom-modation in the house.

The separate barn, which is structurally sound and which also has access to the garden, could be anything from additional car-parking and storage to a large independent dwelling with its own access from the drive. An-other option could be to create 2 separate gîtes on the first floor, while retaining the ground floor possibly for parking on the front side and per-haps a summer kitchen at the back, leading to the garden. Another op-tion could be to develop and sell-off the separate barn in its entirety.

Full services are available to both the internal space and the barn. If both were to be converted to a flat and, for example, gîtes, a conservative estimate of rental income that could accrue to the finished accommodation would be in excess of €50,000 per annum.