Brand new 2-bedroom bungalow on a serviced development plot — Pouzauges, Vendée

A serviced 360 m² development plot at Pouzauges, with a brand new two-bedroom bungalow on it, all in at €175,150. Serviced means the connections are in and the build can start without waiting on anything.

The house is our two-bedroom bungalow: 75 m², everything on one level. A bright open-plan living, dining and kitchen area opens onto the terrace and garden, with two bedrooms, a modern bathroom, a separate WC and a utility room. The layout can be adapted to your wishes and a garage can be added as an option. A plot of this size is easy to keep, which suits a holiday home or a retirement.

This is a builder-linked advertisement, so the construction conditions are established in writing before anything is signed.

About Pouzauges

Pouzauges is one of the most characterful towns in the Vendée, perched at one of the highest points in the department on a rocky spur that has drawn settlers since Gallo-Roman times. Its name means "viewpoint on a hill", and it lives up to it.

The thirteenth-century castle keep still rises above the town — once home to Catherine de Thouars and her notorious husband Gilles de Rais — with panoramas across the bocage and beyond. Pouzauges is a Petite Cité de Caractère and a labelled Station Verte, with flowered pedestrian lanes, a Romanesque church holding rare thirteenth-century frescoes, and the distinction of having been the first electrified town in western France, back in 1887.

For everyday life it is a proper little town: shops, supermarkets, schools, medical facilities, an aquatic centre, a cinema, a theatre and weekly markets. The Pays de Pouzauges has more than sixty signposted walking trails through 1,500 hectares of woods and hilltop viewpoints, including the famous windmills on the Bois de la Folie.

The Puy du Fou — the most visited attraction in France after Disneyland, and repeatedly voted the world's finest theme park — is seventeen kilometres away. Les Sables-d'Olonne and the Atlantic are about an hour and a half, or reachable by train from Pouzauges' own station. La Roche-sur-Yon is fifty kilometres west, with Cholet and Nantes to the north.