18thC Cottage with Spectacular Views, Pools, Tennis & Free Golf

The Cottage details

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Cottage and swimming pool

Large Golf Club swimming pool

South facing veranda

Golf course

Private pool & garden stunning views

Home description

Location, Location!

The ambiance of this delightfully light and airy and immaculately kept stone cottage, has to be seen to be appreciated. Once booked your hooked! We are revisited so much now that its becoming 'home from home' to so many!

Free unlimited golf, swimming and tennis included in the price with no hidden extras! Green fees are included for any 2 players with club facilities for four. Initially it’s the golf package that sparks the interest and the golf club is rather special, and quite a tricky course, but it’s the location and accomodation that guests never forget and return year after year! As soon as you drive up our cherry tree lined, private lane, the spectacular view unfolds before your eyes. A vast landscaped, panoramic garden, that seems orchestrated.. just for you!

The cottage has been beautifully restored to maximise incredibly stunning, south facing vista and whether you are relaxing in the lovely private garden or in the double glazed veranda, or lounging in front of the television, lying in bed, or even in the bath, there it is this feast before you eyes! And from the privacy of the cottage you can watch the ever changing patchworks, the planting and harvests, the early morning mists and shadows, the lakes, the huge moons and crystal clear starry skies, the setting sun on the white stone houses of Ste Alauzie hamlet, turning to burnished gold  Catch the far reaching sight, of Lauzerte, the bastide hilltop village, 25 klms away, but you can see the church windows! The aquatain blond cows, grazing accross the valley. It is a piece of heaven! A painters delight!

Here are what our guests have to say:

“Our 10 th visit here….. and it just gets better!”
Family Hext, Conniston

“When mum and dad announced their fifth visit to loustalnebe and Pen and Andy their 2nd we were really beginning to think we were missing out on something!….. And we were! We have had the most special week..the views ,sounds, smells, the golf …in an unbeatable location. See you next year Dawn, we can’t wait!”
Mel & Ian Quayle Edinburgh

Loustalnebe is of “Gold standard” by which others will be judged! It was the golf that attracted us , but we have discovered the Lot!
Sylvia & William Castle

“The best place in the world to get ingaged in and now to have our Honeymoon! Thanks Dawn for making everything so wonderful”
Susanna & David Selman Sherrington

“Waking up in this beautiful singing valley was heavenly!… the peace and tranquillity, in a picture book setting…we have simply fallen in love with the cottage! Golf and the warm welcome at “Roucous” was superb, an interesting, challenging course“.
Marion & Gorden Campbell, Edinburgh

“What a beautiful place! Every detail in the cottage shows imagination and vision It is also very comfortable .The whole area is a delight, starting with the valley and moving further afield”
3 Peters

“We have been very fortunate to spend a month here. So much do do and see but one is loath to leave the garden and the wonderful views! After reading all the previous comments, Dawn must fell very gratified to have created such a wonderful place, which brings so much pleasure to so many people”
Wyn & Jim Boyle

“All that can be said about the beauty and serenity of the area has been well and truly documented by those who have gone before, but we would like to pay a special tribute to dawn for the flair and imagination, she has applied in creating such a wonderful cottage A wonderful stay, which has ended all too soon!“
Ken & Magaret, Roddington

External features on site

• Garden
• Scenic views
• Swimming pool (exclusive use)
• Barbecue

Accommodation detail

Living room

Bedroom

Double bedroom

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The property is tiled throughout. A total of 127 sq m of living space, cosy for two, yet spacious for four. Light, airy and immaculately kept. Antiques, reproduction and good quality furnishing.

Extremely comfortable and very well equipped, with personal touches everywhere! Many attractive features include exposed stone, oak beam pitched ceilings and an inglenook fireplace with woodstove.

The cottage comprises:

• Kitchen/dining room - open plan, well equipped country style kitchen. With combi/microwave, cooker, dishwasher, gas hob, washing machine, fridge, freezer, electric slow cooker, coffee machine, toaster, food processer.
• Living room - with comfortable sitting area, inglenook fireplace with wood burning stove, English satellite TV, radio/cd/cassette player, telescope, books and games.
• Veranda - large south facing double glazed veranda with eating and lounging area.
• Bedroom one - with four poster queen size bed and single divan, ensuite toilet and basin and fan.
• Bedroom two - with queen size and antique cot. Good quality comfortable beds and bedding, equipped with electric blankets and ceiling  or desk fans.
• ensuite toilet and basin. 
• Bathroom - large luxury reproduction style bathroom. With full size bath, and thermosatic shower over. Bidet, WC, separate good quality thermostatic  walk-in power shower  Washing machine, ironing board, iron, hairdryer, heated rollers, UK shaver socket, fan heater and night storage heater.

Outdoors:

• 2 terraces, with outdoor sensor lighting, garden furniture, including sun-beds with cushions and barbecue and parasols.
• 'Mister' water feature for cooling off
• Plunge pool with decking, Pool shower.
• Pool accessories, and garden games area for Boule.
• Cottage and  very attractive private gardens maintained by English resident owners.

About the location

Situated 20 minutes drive south west of Cahors, (the medieval capital of the Lot), just south of the Lot river and the Cahors wine route. Located between the villages of Castelnau-Montratier and Montcuq. A beautiful region, unspoilt and quiet, made up of lush green hills and valleys, small farms, and medieval hilltop villages.

Lovely white stone farmhouses dotted around with a colourful patchwork of sunflowers, maize, melons, corn, lavender, linseed, rape, poppies and meadows of wild flowers.

Wooded walks with wild orchids, honeysuckle, broom, ground cover of wild rock plants, Mosses and Lichen, small truffle oaks, wild herbs.

Wild Boar, Deer, Hares, Birds of prey, Nightingales and many species of Butterflies & Bees.

“The gateway to the south” The area is generally warmer and dryer (and south) of the Dordogne.

The Lot Valley has become one of the favourite destinations for the British in recent years and if you’ve already been you’ll know why. It’s immensely difficult to single out any particular attraction created by nature in the Lot as taking precedence over another, but most probably the jewels are: St-Cirq-Lapopie and the Gouffre de Padirac. Both are in the Parc Naturel Régional des Causses du Quercy which sprawls through most of the area swallowing up nearly all of the main sites.

St-Cirq-Lapopie dramatically overhangs the Lot perching as though it’s been carelessly flung on to some hugely outsized shelf and been clinging on ever since. The spectacle is the main draw, as although the village’s narrow streets with its artisan shops make for a pleasant enough wander, the castle which once defied Richard the Lionheart is now a ruin.

From high up to low down, the crater of Padirac (near Rocamadour) - formed by the collapse of a cave - has some of the most stunning natural galleries iced by stalagmites and stalactites. Highlight of a visit here is the Salle du Grand Dôme, an immense underground space which could easily swallow up several of the area’s cathedrals.

Rocamadour with its cluster of medieval houses, battlements, towers and churches seems to be not so much perching on a rocky peak above the Alzou valley, as sprouting from it. Early morning visitors driving along the approach road, via the village of L’Hospitalet, will see the sun seeming to cast a luminous shawl over it. If you visit later and leave in the evening you get the more artificial, but none the less attractive, son et lumière effect.

The village became one of the most revered centres by pilgrims following the discovery of an ancient grave with an undecayed body, said to be that of St Amadour, an early Christian hermit, in 1166. A spate of miracles followed the discovery, putting a holy seal on the village.

Other attractions here are Foret des Singes, 130 monkeys living in total freedom. La maison des Abeilles, and Rocher des Aigles over 100 rare species of birds, demonstrations of Birds of prey in flight.

You can only explore properly by foot but the seven chapels, basilicas and museum accessed by the grand stairway (the pilgrims did the 216 stairs on their knees) easily consume a day. The old town is now pedestrianised and despite its main street being lined with souvenir shops they don’t detract from Rocamadour’s enduring appeal.

Outside the park’s boundaries lies the easily walkable city of Cahors and its landmark Pont Valentré. The bridge - six pointed arches, three defensive towers ,spanning the Lot, make up the best surviving fortified river span in Europe. Cahors is better known in the UK for its wine and the many vineyards dotted along the Lot river. Excellent wine tasting.

Cahors and Cajarac has the Quercyrail tourist train. The diesel locomotive trundles through the amiable scenery along an otherwise redundant line. There are various round trips on offer ie. boat with( optional lunch on board) one way, return by train or stopping off at a chateau.

• Visit the Cathedral of Ste Etienne 11th to 17th century
• The Resistance & other museums
• Panoramic mont St. Cyr
• The maison of henry IV
• Indoor market

Figeac on the river Célé has a medieval core away from the square where the streets of Caviale, République and Gambetta delightfully criss-cross one other.  Cele river is a good place to canoe, kayac 170 klm crossing.

Gourdon, collection of yellow-stone houses, set in the landscape of the Causse de Gramat, makes for a change to the traditional layout by being ringed by boulevards.

Some of our favourite excursions:

• Saturday market Cahors.
• Monday market at Caussade, trip to Cordes- sur -Ciel for lunch, after a coffee stop at St Antonin noble- val through the Gorges of the Aveyron
• A must, is the Caves of Pech Merle 1 hr. guided tour, prehistoric drawings, more than 20.000 yrs old museum, pottery ,coffee shop and over the river to Ste Cirq le popie for lunch and an afternoon stroll through the village
• Sunday market in the lively village of Montcuq one of the top 100 village markets in France for ambiance
• Montcuq swimming lake or the Les Etaings fishing lakes and resturant (overlooking the lakes) at nearby Castelnau Montratier
• Visit Toulouse and the City of Space
• Albi for the Toulouse Lautrec museum, and the stunning Cathedral Sainte Cecile which took 2 centuries to build from 1282 to 1480 and is the largest brick building in the world!
• Friday Prayssac town, market and lunch
• Scenic drive through Albas and the kings vineyards to Prayssac market, on to Grezels for a 5 course lunch inc wine for 14euros!
• Back through Floressas to Chateau chambert and Chateau Laur for wine tasting.

See Local guide and map for information on nearby towns and facilities.

Activities near by

Golf, Swimming, Walking, Sightseeing, Horse riding, Wine tasting, Tennis, Cycling, Fishing, Gourmet dining

See Activities and attractions for more information on nearby activities and places of interest.

How to get here

• The Lot region is well served with the option of 5 airports nearest is Toulouse 1 hr 15mins, Bergerac 1 hr 35 mins, Rodez 2 hrs  (both lovely drives) Bordeaux and Carcassonne 2 .5 hrs
• The roads are excellent in France especially enjoyable in the SW and South
• Fast trains stop at Bordeaux and Toulouse or from Paris to Cahors 4 hrs
• Coach from London to Cahors 18 hrs
• Full directional maps and driving directions available from the owners and in depth details of area at the cottage

See Local guide and map for information on nearby towns and airports.