house for sale Collias, Gard

SUBSTANTIAL VILLA, POOL, GUEST STUDIO, LARGE GROUNDS. Situated in a popular local village, with main shops, restaurants, and centre for various sporting activities associated with the River Gardon Gorge, this house offers 120m2 living space on grounds of 2000m2. The house was extended in 1996 to provide an additional sitting room (26m2) with wood-burning stove. The dining room (20m2) seats a big family and is next to the practical and equipped kitchen (8m2). The main living rooms open out onto the south-facing terrace. There are two bedrooms in the main house (av size 10m2), with fitted cupboards, plus bathroom and wc. The attached garage houses the main services as well as an underground wine cellar. In the gardens, there's a separate outbuilding (10m2) housing the pool equipment - it is insulated, and could be adapted as an additional bedroom. In the garden there's a useful and fully insulated guest studio of some 20m2, consisting of bedroom, sitting room corner, shower and wc. Attached to this is the garden tools and equipment workshop. The private gardens are nicely presented and planted and there's a large pool (10x5m) which has been fitted with a new liner (2011). This is a most pleasant property and warmly recommended. The house is in a quiet residential street, is not overlooked, and the shops are an easy walk away. UZES is about 12km distant, and Remoulins and the famous Roman acqueduct (the Pont du Gard) are just 6km away.