Our new house?

Here are a few photos of the house in Bréal-sous-Montfort we're thinking of buying.

The layout of the house is ultra-simple: four rooms downstairs (two on the left, two on the right) with a corridor through the middle from front to back. The stairs are at the back of the corridor - gorgeous 19th-century wooden staircase.

The layout upstairs is exactly the same. The stairs continue from the first floor up to a large attic under the eaves of the house. There's a large cellar, accessible from a door under the stairs.

The roof is old (nailed slates - approx. 50 years old) but in apparently good condition.

Nearly every room has lino on the floor, but with the original floorboards underneath.

The bathroom and laundryroom are currently in the most AWFUL (I can't emphasise how awful it is) 1970's extension, accessed from a door next to the staircase, which cuts all the light to the left-hand downstairs window...needs to be pulled down, so no bathroom...

All the doors are original wooden doors with latches.

The windows are fairly new, but cheapo plastic frames. Same for the shutters. Double glazed.

Cellar access under the steps.

Downstairs kitchen, front right as you look at the house. Back right bedroom accessed through the back of the kitchen.

Back right bedroom. I hope that's not damp in the corner...

This is the view out of the back right bedroom.

The wall is the 1970's bathroom

monstrosity that needs to be pulled down....

And this, believe it or not, is H climbing out of the window of the left back bedroom (agent couldn't get the key of the back door to work...) It's a bedroom like a tomb, totally dark all the time as no light can enter because of the bathroom carbuncle on the left of the photo. The wall on the right is the Strange Room (see below) - you can see the door to it.

The steps go down to the garden.

And this is the Strange Room. The lintel in the wall used to be a door to the back left bedroom. It's fairly high, about as high as the first floor, with the eaves visible.

That's it for the downstairs - I didn't manage to get any photos of the left-hand side of the house, or the staircase, unfortunately.

The two rooms on the left communicate, and both have/had fireplaces. The one in the front room has been taken out, but the one at the back is still there. That back room (the one H is climbing out of!) is unbelievably dark...Really wonder how anyone could have lived in it...

Now for the upstairs!

The upstairs 'kitchen' (front right as you look at the house). Access to the back right bedroom is through the back of the kitchen.

This is the back right bedroom, accessed through the kitchen. The pink door on the left leads to a mini 2-foot wide bathroom, as long as the room (also needs to go...)

The back of the 'pink' bedroom.

Nice view....

The garden's fairly small, with a couple of fruit trees (apples and pears). L says the pears are very sweet! The town council has bought the back of all the gardens in the row of houses, to make a rear access pedestrian road, which we'd be able to use to bring the car round to the back of the house. Shame to lose some of the garden though...

That's all the photos I managed to get! Let me know what you think...we've estimated around €50,000 of work on it to get it decent again - including full rewiring and demolition of the back, redistribution of all the rooms, and a new bathroom...