106 French Property News August 2019 http://www.completefrance.com
MY DR EAM HOME
A handsome manor in southern Dordogne tops Adrian Lithgow’s wishlist
Adrian Lithgow, of A
Eleonor, can imagin
inviting the boys
round to this
‘gentilhommière’ o n
a mansized scale in
Dordogne, on the
market for
€630,000
It is a great time to b
buyer in the French market
right now and I only wish I were
one myself.
Given the choice I would opt for
hi f astic five-bedroom
h e near Issigeac in
uthern Dordogne,
parts of which date
from the Hundred
Years War.
Don’t tell me it is
too masculine
because this is a
h use that I am
sing for me. I want to
carouse with my mates in the
billiard room after a slap-up
dinner in my dining room with its
18th-century fireplace completewith Franco Prussian sword. Then
I’d retire for brandies in my sitting
room in the ancient core of the
house. The fireplace is made from
a 13th-century beam that has to
be seen to be believed. And I
would certainly insist the owner
leaves the wolf skin on the wall.
The grounds don’t have room
for a golf course, but I don’t want
to spend all my time on a mower.
Five acres of gardens and
woodlands is enough for me to be
getting along with. And if not golf,
there is a tennis court and amosaic heated swimming pool
with lovely views over a forest.
If I need to get back to Britain,
I’m just 15 minutes from Bergerac
airport so leaving on the
lunchtime plane I can have dinner
in London. But my heart would
always be in my medieval
paradise, looking forward to the
moment I arrived back home. Tel: 0033 (0)5 24 10 36 93
agence-eleonor.com