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Lots of potential and priced to sell this mountain village house for sale in La Forclaz is in a fantastic sunny position above the village and the views are just amazing. It is half way between Lake Leman and the ski resort of Morzine Avoriaz and 20 minutes from St Jean D’Aulps. The main house with a south facing large kitchen, sitting room and 3 bedrooms needs updating but is habitable, has oil fired central heating and has a large barn to renovate. The larger of the outbuildings has got a workshop, storage rooms and a smoke house and the other has 2 rooms one with a flue for a wood burner. With some TLC and renovation this could be a home with other self-contained accommodation to rent out.
Basement
2 cellars one with a vaulted ceiling
Ground Floor
Entrance hall with doors leading to:
Sitting room with panoramic views over the valley
Large kitchen with French doors opening onto the south-facing balcony again with the panoramic views over the valley Bathroom
wc
Boiler room housing the new de Dietrich oil fired boiler
First Floor
3 double bedrooms with views over the valley
walk in storage cupboard
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On the landing there is a door into a barn with a mezzanine that could be converted into living space.
Large Outbuilding This is a Savoyard style building on 2 floors with storage rooms on the top floor and several separate rooms on the ground floor. One of the rooms on the ground floor is a smoke house that is still in use and there is also a bread oven. Renovated this could provide rental income. Smaller Outbuilding Attached to the building next door this annexe has got one room downstairs and one room upstairs.
Outside there is parking for 2 vehicles and a garden.
The house is in the centre of the village and you can walk to the local bar restaurant. La Forclaz is a mountain village that is only 20 minutes from Lac Leman and the towns of Thonon-les-Bains and Evian where you can get the boat over to Lausanne and Geneva.
The airport in Geneva is just over an hour away and Calais is about a 9 hour drive.
For skiing in the winter the ski stations of the Portes du Soleil are about a 30 minutes drive as are other stations such as Bellevaux and Hirmantaz.

The ski resort of St Jean D'Aulps is a lovely, typically savoyard village with a small cable car which takes you to the local ski station, it has an array of bars and restaurants and all other local amenities you might want. It is just 10 minutes drive to Morzine and 1 hour 20 minutes to the international airport at Geneva. This is a year round destination with the skiing and snowboarding throughout the Portes du Soleil area, walking, climbing, sailing (just 20 minutes away on Lac Leman) A family resort in the Portes du Soleil ski area, Saint Jean d'Aulps offers skiers the grandiose backdrop of "le Roc d'Enfer" down to la Chèvrerie offering great view of Lake Geneva, the Dents du Midi and Mont Blanc. It rises to 1800 metres above sea level and the resort itself and offers 20 slopes : 4 greens, 5 blues, 10 reds, 1 black with a total of 14 ski-lifts. There are free buses all season between Saint Jean d'Aulps village and the ski resort plus a shuttle between Saint Jean d'Aulps Village and the others ski resorts of the Portes du Soleil Ski Area.