Two of them were in the village of Excideuil and two were in small villages nearby.
Both of the places in Excideuil were within 200-feet of the house I looked at this morning. In fact it was possible to see all of the houses at one time, if you stood in the right spot on the back street.
The house across the street from my original house was completely renovated. The owners surely spent a lot of money bringing the house to its present state, but what they did was to remove all the stone walls, beamed ceilings and architectural details that make these houses so special. It was without charm and just not for me.
The next house had a magnificent great room--all in stone--with soaring ceilings. I'm sure it was 400-500 years old.
There was even a secret passageway behind a cupboard door (on the left) that led to a nearby tower. The garden was very large--a blank slate that needs a gardener to make it beautiful.
Really interesting place, but very tiny, ugly kitchen and totally weird bathrooms--all would need complete re-dos.
In the small Village of Negrondes, which was quaint and peaceful, the house was immaculate, the garden and small barn were charming, but it was very dated with different floral wallpaper in every room, an unattractive kitchen and very old bathrooms. It did have a lot of potential for someone willing to invest a lot of time and effort. The town was darling, but way too quiet for me.
The next place, in the village of Tourtoriac, had a similar situation: old folks selling the place after living there for 50 years. It probably had not been modernized since the 1950s, but again the town was picture perfect and the garden just gorgeous. I just don't want to devote a year or more of my life to knocking down walls and either peeling off old wallpaper or paying (yikes!!) somebody else to do it.
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