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For an authentic slice of French country life, La Fermette is a traditional Charantais farmhouse that has been lovingly renovated into a spacious family gite, in the Cognac countryside of South West France, just 30 minutes from the coast. Whilst putting the finishing touches to La Fermette, the owners also converted a stable and a stone barn into two smaller gites, L’Etable and L’Ecurie, and added a games barn to make this farmhouse cluster a relaxing retreat for extended families and friends.

Children have plenty of space to play outdoors in the orchard field, with boules, bats and balls, hula hoops, along with table tennis, table football, a pool table and various sizes of bikes. What could be better for a picnic than peaches, cherries, figs and walnuts plucked straight from the trees in season and parents can chill out on sun loungers and gaze on the sunsets while sampling the local ‘Pineau’, wines and Cognac. Besides the orchard, each of the gites has its own garden area with an outdoor dining table and barbecue for sizzling up suppers.

The owners have renovated the gites in keeping with their traditional, rustic charm and making a feature of the pale stone walls, oak beams, wood floors, Charentais stone fireplaces and shuttered windows. There’ve also made sure the gites are comfy, cosy and well equipped for families, from children’s games and DVD’s, English TV channels and Wi Fi to practical kitchen essentials, spacious bedrooms and helpful baby gear. They’ve even thought to provide 4-socket UK plug boards to keep all those godsend family gadgets all charged up!

Accommodation overview
L 'Ecurie was originally a stable which the owners have beautifully converted into a charming studio gite for a couple with a baby and it also makes a perfect self-contained suite for grandparents if booked with the adjoining gite, L’Etable. The accommodation is all on the ground floor and open plan, with the wrought iron double bed behind a screen for privacy and a separate wet room with a walk-in rain shower, washbasin, WC and underfloor heating. One cosy corner of the gite has two armchairs for watching the TV with English channels, or DVD’s, and at the opposite side of the room, the country style kitchenette includes a 2 ring electric hob, microwave, fridge with a freezer compartment, toaster, electric kettle and slow cooker. Couples can pull out a small drop leaf table and chairs to eat indoors or there are French doors to the gravel garden area with table and chairs, sun loungers and a charcoal barbecue.