Property type

• Mountain village house

Property Description

The property sits on the sunny side of the valley with magnificent views across the valley looking directly upon the slopes of the Paradiski!  You can also see La Rosiere and the Col du Petit Saint Bernard leading over to Italy, the views of the valley are truly immense!  The skiing in this area speaks for itself and the property is located just a 10 minutes drive to the Arc en Ciel funicular in Bourg Saint Maurice which gives access to the Paradiski ski domain - over 400kms of piste.  You can also try the modern but less developed Espace San Bernardo which is an international ski domain of over 150kms, linking France with Italy.  The Ecudets lift is just a 20 minutes drive from here so you can be sitting on the Italian side of the mountain, in the foothills of Monte Bianco eating a Pizza by lunchtime!  Around the house there are plenty of opportunities to try ski touring or discover some winter wildlife on snow shoes down one of the many marked walking trails.  Many ski touring enthusiasts travel a good distance to visit the gentle, wide, unmarked sunny hills of Les Chapelles, where you can skin up on your touring skis and cruise back down on fresh powder.  The village of Montgirod is less than 10 minutes drive to the popular winter resort of Bourg Saint Maurice.  Peaceful and private with all day sun the chalet sits on the versant du soleil – the sunny side.




But more about the property which would make an excellent family home or family base for a true mountain hideaway holiday chalet.  The house reminded me of a traditional farmhouse when I first visited.  With its high pitched roof, wooden cladding and the many useful outbuildings to the rear of the property.  It is a great, large and lofty chalet, set in glorious woody and spacious gardens. The accommodation is laid out as follows:




Grand entrance hall which lies at the centre of the property.  To the right is the equipped kitchen and dining room.  You might decide to change this to make one large open plan family style kitchen?  To the left is the focal point of this large house.  The open plan living area is spacious, airy and bright due to its full height ceilings reaching in to the exposed beams of the pitched roof – lovely!  There is an area set aside as a dining room, an office or library area and finally a bar.  At the centre of these zones is a lovely open fireplace, just what you need roaring in the background after an afternoon snow shoeing in the fields above this private, quiet chalet.




Returning to the other end of the chalet, past the hallway to 4 double bedrooms.  Two of the rooms are currently used as a craft room and an office.  They all share a family bathroom with bath, WC, hand basin and over head shower.  The main suite or parents room is a large area including a dressing room, large double bedroom and a large en-suite  bathroom with bath, WC, bidet and basin.  The bedroom has a door that opens out on to the terrace and garden which is a quaint feature.  This house offers a further 120m2 of loft space which is used as storage at the moment.  It could easily be converted to increase the living space if you desired.




Surrounded by well developed trees and gardens the house is set at the end of a private driveway.  There are lots of storage sheds, potting shed and a summer garden house, vegetable plot and even a “putting green” at the back of the garden – its not St Andrews, but quite fun!