FINISTÈRE: Scaër. 3 bed family house with convertible attic and 989 m² garden, walking distance to town, 30 minutes from the beach.

Set in a quiet dead-end street a few minutes' walk from the centre of Scaër, this is a luminous house that is ready to move into and asks nothing of you but your furniture. It has been cared for by the same family for many years and it shows: around 100 m² of comfortable, well-kept living space, light on both sides, with an enclosed garden of 989 m² and an open outlook.

The entrance opens into a generous main room where the kitchen gives onto the dining area, flowing into a bright sitting room with a fireplace and doors straight out to the terrace; a WC completes the ground floor. Upstairs are three bedrooms with fitted cupboards and a family bathroom. Above them lies a 48 m² attic, already boarded in timber, offering real scope to add a room or two for anyone who would rather grow into a house than out of it. At garden level a full basement provides a workshop, a cellar and the boiler room, and the grounds hold a store and a garden shed, with easy parking in front.

Built in 1956 and well looked after since, the house is connected to mains gas and to mains drainage, which anyone who has viewed rural Breton property will recognise as a real advantage over the common private septic systems. There is PVC double glazing throughout.

The setting is one of the quiet pleasures of southern Finistère. Scaër is a lively small town with everything you need within a few minutes' walk of the door, from the bakery and the shops to the schools and the weekly market. The great forest of Coatloc'h is right on the doorstep, along with the voie verte running towards the lakes of Rosporden, which makes for beautiful walking and cycling straight from the house. The beaches of the south coast, around Concarneau and Névez, are roughly half an hour away, the artists' town of Pont-Aven around twenty-five minutes, Quimperlé with its TGV station twenty minutes, Quimper about thirty-five, and the ferry at Roscoff a little over an hour. (6.50 % fees incl. VAT at the buyer's expense.)