Widehem. Boulonnais. Pas-de-Calais.

by Susan Gabriel
(Widehem. Pas-de-Calais)

Two separate adjacent residences being sold as a package for
387 580 € including notaire’s fees, taxes etc.

One a newly built (2007) two-storey house that the owners have been successfully renting out as a self-catering holiday home (gite) – ready for immediate occupation; the other a lovingly renovated cottage which still needs some finishing touches (floor-tiling or carpeting; partitioning off for bedrooms – at the moment an open-plan, fully insulated loft apartment).

Situated in the centre of the farming village of Widehem (white hamlet) surrounded by hills and downs eight kilometres inland from the channel seaside resort of Ste. Cecille (located between Le Touquet and Hardelot Plage, all of which have expansive sandy beaches and clean sea water).

The new house – built on the site of a barn. Newly installed ‘fosse septique’, village main drainage coming soon.
124 m2 - double glazed throughout.
ground floor:
study or living room, 4.50m x 4.24m, at present used as bedroom with a four-poster bed – day and evening sunshine;
small vestibule leading to:
toilet with wash basin and plumbing for washing machine;
kitchen dining room, 4.50m x 5.01m, fully equipped fitted kitchen, daytime sun; leading through to:
sitting room, 4.50m x 4.i0m, morning and daytime sun.
1st floor:
bedroom 1, 3.64m x 4.22m, with ‘en suite’ (W.C., wash basin, shower), evening sun;
off landing:
toilet (W.C., wash hand basin);
bathroom (bath with shower attachment, washbasin, plumbing for bidet or washing machine);
bedroom 2, 1.97m x 2.26m, vanity washbasin unit;
bedroom 3, 3.65m x 3.62m, view of distant hill with cattle grazing, evening sun. At present the house is heated by electricity, wall radiators in every room on 1st floor and in the dining room.Access to chimney for installation of a fireplace

The cottage, around 150 years old, renovated and kept to the style of the times, but double glazed and insulated.
120 m2
ground floor:
hall-living room, 4.24m x4.05m, with inglenook fireplace leading onto:
dining room, 4.40m x 4m,leading onto:
kitchen 3.05m x 2.55m;
veranda-style corridor leading from dining room giving entrance to toilet (WC wash basin);
sitting room 3.92m x 3.12m, (off from hall-living room), stairs up to loft apartment.
1st floor:
‘L’ shaped, to left of staircase: area 3.00m x 3.93m; to right: area 3.42m x 7.00m
‘en suite’ with WC, washbasin & shower (functions but needs replacing). Connected to new sceptic tank.
Heated by wood/coal-burning stove and electricity.
Garage, also parking for two cars, cultivated garden with old and new fruit trees, forecourt. Approximately 700 m2 . Next door cottage being retained by Anglo-French owners for their adult daughters and their family’s holiday home.

Contact: susan.gabriel-clarke@orange.fr