Listed Renaissance Apartment on Place Notre-Dame

Summary
A two-bedroom, 140 m² apartment across the second floor of two listed Renaissance houses on the Place Notre-Dame, the market square of Villefranche-de-Rouergue. You reach it by a stone spiral staircase classified as a historic monument in 1916. The 55 m² salon has monumental fireplaces and exposed timber framing, and both 33 m² bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, look across the square to the Collégiale Notre-Dame. Running costs are about €2,000 a year. Sold by the owner, with no agency fees. At £199k it is priced to sell!

Interior
The salon measures 55 m² and has monumental stone fireplaces, exposed timber framing, a beamed ceiling, wood paneling and carved stone doorways, one of them carved with vines and grapes. The fitted kitchen measures 17 m², with a gas hob, an oven and room for a dining table. The two bedrooms measure 33 m² each and both look onto the square and the Collégiale. The first has a canopy bed and a new open bathroom, with a clawfoot bathtub on an oak platform against oak paneling. The second has a beamed ceiling, a fireplace and three stone-arched windows, with its bathroom behind a glazed timber screen. Both bathrooms have a shower, and the flat has fast broadband. The solid wood dining table and the canopy bed can stay with the flat for £4,500, and the rest of the furniture is available as a set for £2,900.