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A home in Langlade, designed to live and work at the rhythm of the South.
155.75 m² Carrez · 4 bedrooms · swimming pool · yurt · plot of nearly 1,700 m² · full south exposure · Mediterranean orchard · 14 min from Nîmes.
A house shaped by the people who live in it, to be fully enjoyed.
We reimagined this house as a permanent summer place — somewhere you welcome guests, cook for hours, work in the light, and slip away to the yurt whenever you need to concentrate.
The large living space of nearly 57 m² opens due south onto the partly covered terrace. The central kitchen island, more than 2 m², naturally becomes the heart of the home: the heart of families who truly love to cook. A wood-burning stove keeps you company in winter and makes the room even warmer.
The volumes were designed so they can be sealed off entirely depending on the time of day: a master bedroom with its own shower room upstairs, three bedrooms and their bathroom on the ground floor that can be closed off from the rest, two offices, plus a fully equipped garden yurt (electricity, air conditioning, Wi-Fi) just 10 metres from the house, a workshop, a chicken coop and a glass greenhouse.
A frugal, pleasant house all year round
We chose a generous, resilient energy mix: natural-gas central heating, a wood-burning stove in the living space, reversible air conditioning in the key rooms (master bedroom, offices, yurt), and mobile solar panels for top-up consumption. A private borehole at 9 metres feeds the irrigation, and the crawl space beneath the house provides natural cooling in summer. The result: a house that is easy to live in whatever the season, with an energy rating that proves it.
In other words: a house that knows how to welcome a whole tribe, absorb the remote working of several people, put up parents or friends who stay a few days, and keep — for everyone, children, teenagers, adults, guests — their own territory, with no encroachment and no background noise.
Aurélie & Eric Viard · owners · partners at Biovie
The house, room by room.
Six main rooms, two offices, a master suite upstairs, a fully appointed 17 m² yurt ten metres from the house.
Living space
56.82 m² · Ground floorDining room and kitchen combined. Central island of nearly 3 m², wood-burning stove, dual aspect. Everything was designed for families who spend their lives around the table.
Kitchen
Built into the living roomWorktop, gas range cooker, large basin, raw-wood furniture. A carpet of artisanal tiles and a sunny yellow wall. A living space more than a kitchen.
Master suite
18.30 m² · 1st floorBedroom with adjoining shower room and WC. Private south-facing balcony of 4.65 m². Sealable from the rest of the house, it offers a truly preserved adult space.
Three ground-floor bedrooms
9.43 + 12.06 + 11.33 m²Served by a corridor that can be closed off: bedrooms for children, guests or ageing parents keep their privacy. Shared bathroom of 8.61 m².
Two offices
19.79 + 10.32 m² · Ground floorTwo separate workspaces, designed for two people working from home or for receiving clients and patients without disturbing family life.
The yurt
10 m from the houseFitted with electricity, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. An extra guest room, a consulting room, a creative studio: the 3rd place everyone dreams of having.
A Mediterranean orchard at the end of the cul-de-sac.
Nearly 1,700 m², with the southern part on a gentle slope — a configuration that makes any future construction impossible in front of the house, and places the land outside the flood zone.
In front of the large terrace, a leisure area with the swimming pool. Behind it, an orchard:
- Numerous vine stocks
- 4 fig trees
- Clementine tree
- Feijoas
- Apricot trees
- Several olive trees
- Pomegranate trees
- Mirabelle plum tree
- 2 persimmon trees (kakis)
- 2 plane-leaved mulberry trees
- Cherry tree
- Walnut tree
The pleasure here is being able to pick ripe fruit straight from the tree for nearly eight months of the year: the first mirabelle plums in June, the apricots, then the figs that follow in two harvests, the table grapes in late summer, the pomegranates, the persimmons that close the season in autumn, and the clementines that hold on through part of the winter. An orchard like this mainly asks for an annual winter pruning and a little watering from the borehole — far simpler to maintain than a vegetable garden. And for vegetables, the Vaunage is so productive in local, affordable market gardening that it would almost be a shame to plant your own.
A borehole just 9 metres deep feeds the irrigation: easy to maintain, independent of the mains network. Usable as domestic water. Self-sufficiency, in the literal sense.
Langlade, a living village at the heart of the Vaunage.
The Vaunage, this small plain between Nîmes and the Cévennes, is one of the most sought-after areas of the Gard. Langlade is one of its most coveted villages: quiet, lively, well connected, surrounded by garrigue and pine woods.
Daily life, on foot or by bike
The house sits in a very quiet, full-south-facing cul-de-sac. The primary school is 800 metres away. The greenway — a former railway line — runs through the village: you can reach Sommières without crossing a single car, and on the other side an extension all the way to Nîmes is planned soon. A forest track already lets you reach Nîmes by bike through the woods.
As for shops and services, Langlade has kept a real village life. Everything is within walking or cycling distance:
For the weekly shopping, we're spoilt: a very dynamic, active and committed Biocoop 5 minutes away in the neighbouring village of Saint-Dionisy, an organic market gardener and a producers' cooperative less than 3 kilometres away. Hiking trails set off literally from our cul-de-sac, regularly used by walkers from the Gard and beyond.
Everyday distances
In ten years, we have criss-crossed France and explored more than 25 countries abroad — without ever seeing our daily life upended by the travel. Langlade is an ideal starting point: motorways, high-speed train stations, airports, everything is within easy reach, without the fatigue of a big city.
High-speed train stations & airports — leave easily, from wherever you are coming
Schooling
Langlade has become a genuine little school hub for families who care about the quality of education. The public school complex is 800 metres away, and the medium-sized catchment secondary school is in the neighbouring village of Clarensac.
Two quality alternative schools round out the local offering:
L'École du Chemin — a trilingual nursery school (French, English, Spanish) set up in the village of Langlade itself. Small class sizes, daily outings into the garrigue, teaching inspired by alternative approaches. A privileged setting for the early years.
Terre & Crayons secondary and high school — a caring, alternative school in Codognan, less than 15 minutes away by car. Cooperative teaching inspired by Freinet, Steiner and Montessori, centred on eco-citizenship and sustainable development. Served by the public transport that stops in Bernis, at the foot of Langlade, and by the Vergèze-Codognan station.
An unusual valley, with an exceptional climate.
For anyone who doesn't know the region: the Vaunage is a small green basin set between Nîmes and Sommières, ringed by wooded hills that shelter it from the prevailing winds.
The Vaunage and its villages, between Nîmes and Sommières
This sheltered-valley configuration changes everything. While Avignon, a little further to the north-east, takes the full force of the Mistral sweeping down the Rhône valley, the Vaunage stays noticeably more protected — you can dine outdoors without the napkins flying away.
It is also one of the warmest areas in France by annual average, with a level of sunshine that the northern half of the country can only dream of.
A paradise for walkers and cyclists.
Over the years, the Vaunage has become one of the favourite destinations of walkers in the Gard. The gentle relief, the waymarked and catalogued trails, the Gallo-Roman remains on every hill, the fragrant garrigue, the dry-stone shepherds' huts: it's an inexhaustible playground, less than a kilometre from the house.
The Nîmes — Sommières greenway runs through the village. This former railway line, now converted, is much loved by cyclists and families: you ride on the flat, with no cars at all, for dozens of kilometres. And to reach Nîmes by bike, a forest track lets you cross the woods in complete safety, all the way to the city's edge — without a single car on the route.
Right from Langlade itself, one of the most emblematic hikes leads to the Gallo-Roman oppidum of Nages, perched at 160 m. A panoramic view over the whole Vaunage, the remains of ramparts, century-old dry-stone huts. You can glimpse the Mediterranean, 14 km away as the crow flies.
Woodland and clifftop trails, a panorama over the Vaunage, the remains of a Gaulish oppidum.
The official figures, with no gloss.
- Carrez Law surface area155.75 m²
- PlotAbout 1,700 m², gentle slope facing south
- Rooms6 rooms — including 4 bedrooms and 2 offices
- Year1977 — rethought by the owners
- ExposureFull south, architectural overhang against the heat
- Mixed heatingHeat pump in certain rooms · wood-burning stove in the kitchen · natural-gas central heating
- CoolingReversible air conditioning in the master bedroom, the office and the yurt · cooling crawl space beneath the entire footprint of the house
- Back-up energyMobile solar panels
- VentilationDucted mechanical ventilation (VMC)
- WaterMains supply + generous private borehole even during drought, 9 m deep
- SanitationIndividual — septic tank officially non-compliant for around ten years, like roughly 70% of the houses in the village.
- Swimming poolUnusual, in the south leisure area
- OutbuildingsYurt 10 m from the house — electricity, A/C, Wi-Fi · workshop · storage · glass greenhouse · chicken coop
- TerracesSeveral terraces totalling more than 120 m²
- Parking4 parking spaces in the courtyard + 1 private parking space allocated at the kerbside
- RisksERP risk statement available — outside the flood zone thanks to the sloping configuration of the land
Estimated annual energy costs for the home: between €1,640 and €2,218 (average prices indexed 2021-2023, subscriptions included)
Through-flowing home, insulated roof, exterior shutters and sun breakers: the three assets officially noted by the assessor for summer comfort.
Read the house at a single glance.
The ground floor, the upper floor, the terraces, the yurt and the swimming pool seen from above. You'll see why the spaces can be separated so well.
Site plan — orientation and layout on the land
Ground floor — living space, bedrooms, offices and bathroom
Non-contractual, overall view — ground floor, upper floor, terraces and outbuildings
The house in the light.
Under the clear skies of the Gard.
Do you recognise your next home?
We are selling directly at the price of €469,000, which is the market price in this sought-after village of the Gard. Write to us with a word about who you are — we reply quickly, and we'll gladly arrange a viewing.
60 chemin des Comminques · 30980 Langlade · Vaunage · Gard