A renovated house with a pool and guest apartment, nestled in the town of Le Beausset with a sweeping view of La Ciotat bay.
Le Beausset is a small town with around 10,000 inhabitants. It offers shops and amenities for everyday needs. The town is nestled at the foot of a hill: Le Beausset-Vieux. In Roman times, this hill was used to keep watch over the road between the cities of Marseille and Toulon. The nearby towns of Évenos and Ollioules served the same purpose on the road that leads to Toulon through spectacular gorges. The property is ideally located in a raised position and a calm spot, 1.5 kilometres from the town centre. It looks down over the valley and faces the villages of La Cadière-d'Azur and Le Castellet. It is not far from a motorway, which takes you to the delightful Bandol beach in under 15 minutes, to Marseille international airport in one hour, and to Toulon in 20 minutes. From the high-speed train station in Toulon, you can reach Paris in four hours by rail.
A small road takes you from Le Beausset town centre to the property in five minutes. Beyond an electric gate, a slope takes you down to two spaces where seven cars can be parked. These spaces lie beside a delightful swimming pool that is 16 metres long and 6 metres wide. The house, to the west, is edged with terraces on three sides. The dwelling dates back to the 1970s, but it was entirely renovated from 2012 onwards. Apart from its basement with a guest apartment, this house is a single-storey dwelling. It is a rectangular building painted in grey tones with arched windows and glazed doors fitted with wooden shutters that are painted white. Red barrel tiles cover the gabled roof. An open-sided shelter with pillars of stone cladding extends the roof on the west side upon a terrace. Another roof section extends it on the east side, upon a closed conservatory that forms the entrance hall. Most of the house's rooms and the garden's west side offer a sweeping view of the valley, La Ciotat bay and the surrounding hills. On the property's north side, beautiful trees give the house privacy, so it is not overlooked by the neighbouring homes. Retaining walls of stone and many clusters of flowering plants embellish the well-maintained garden.
The house
The ground floor
From the terrace, you enter the house via a recently made conservatory that forms an entrance hall. This hallway connects to a fitted kitchen that takes you into an extensive lounge with a floor area of around 65m². This whole space was made by removing partition walls that separated the old kitchen and a bedroom. Only a pillar with stone facing and a breakfast bar divide the open space that resulted from this major redesign. The space is bathed in natural light from eight openings: windows and glazed doors on three sides, making the room remarkably bright. The terracotta-tiled floor is patterned, the walls are painted white, and pale exposed beams run across the ceiling. The windows are arched and double-glazed. The ambience is cosy, though the space looks outside with a panoramic western view. From the lounge, a corridor connects to a large, virtually new shower room with a lavatory, then to two bedrooms, an office that could be used as a children's bedroom, and a second shower room that is smaller than the first one. The flooring in the bedrooms is made of the same material as in the lounge. The largest bedroom and the office have windows on two sides. All the bedrooms have clear views of the surroundings.
The basement
The basement includes a guest apartment with a floor area of over 40m² and a large cellar with a floor area of around 20m². You enter the apartment via a broad sliding glazed door on the east side. This door leads into a bright lounge with an open-plan fitted kitchen. The materials are plain and pale. The room is comfortable. The bedroom ...
