House in Azille , Aude , Languedoc Roussillon

The double front doors are beautifully carved, and lead into a large entrance hall (9,5m²), which has two more sets of traditional double doors and one even older single one, to the understair cupboard. To the right is the garage, of 27,6m². To the left is the kitchen/dining room of 23,4m², with terrazzo floor and two large new double-glazed timber windows looking east over the square; there is a fireplace piped for a wood stove, with a new chimney built in 2010, and part of a plasterwork overmantel.

The original curved terracotta and timber stair with wrought-iron balusters leads up to the top of the house.

On the first floor there are two bedrooms of 11,5 and 9,5m², also with east windows, one with a marble fireplace and plasterwork overmantel. With view up the road are the bathroom (5m²) and the living room, 27,6m², with marble fireplace, woodburning insert stove and ornamental plasterwork above; there is an alcove and cupboards on each side, which could be kept, or taken out to give more space.

On the top floor there are new double-glazed timber windows in the two bedrooms which look over the square, which are of 11m² and 10.55m². There are 3-4 other rooms up here (5m² - good for a bathroom - 10m², 10.75m² and 4.23m²), completely untouched, two are full-height to the roof. (This floor is 66m² in total; walls can be knocked down if need be.) The roof is in good condition, having been repaired in 2010. The taxe foncière was 831€ last year.

Azille has a village shop, a café/bar, a butcher's shop/épicerie, a bakery, a pharmacy, a post office, a Friday market, a curry house and a doctor. It is 7 km from Olonzac which has all amenities, 30 km from Carcassonne, 35 km from Narbonne, 50 km from Béziers, 50km from the sea and 128 km from Spain (an hour and a half).
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