Sleeps: 16 + 2 children / infants

Up to 18 in the main house

Up to 4 in two garden bedrooms

NB: while the house can in theory accommodate up to 22 – this is too many for the facilities so there is a maximum occupancy of 16 adults and 2 children.

Bedrooms and Bathrooms

Main House:

2 super king doubles with ensuite bathroom

2 twin rooms

2 super king double rooms

2 children’s rooms

3 shared bathrooms

Garden Rooms: 

1 double bedroom with ensuite bathroom

1 super king or twin room with ensuite bathroom

More information on the bedrooms and bathrooms.

Rent per week

€19,300 to €28,000 per week depending on the season. Saturday to Saturday. Short breaks and flexible changeover day outside of July and August.

Detailed break down of  price per week

Key features

House of comfort, style and character

Spacious rooms and bedrooms

Outstanding gardens designed by Dominique Lafourcade

Utterly private and peaceful

Chef/s available

Tennis Court / 5 aside / basketball court

Superb swimming pool and surrounding facilities in African themed garden

Air Conditioning

Table tennis

Children’s garden with sandpit, sunken trampoline, swing set and Wendy House

Sitting Room: a large family sitting room filled with natural light through three sets of French doors onto the dining terrace and garden at the western end of the house and terrace and garden to the south. Three large sofas surround a coffee table and an open woodburning fire place. There is an upright piano with transparent casing that allows a view to the inside workings of the piano.

Kitchen: Located in the centre of the house with a wooden kitchen table (capable of seating 8 if required) units to two sides incorporating a Le Cornu Gas cooker with 5 rings and two ovens, two dishwashers a large sink, Nespresso coffee maker, toaster and kettle. There is a separate freestanding cutting board / table. There is a built in fridge freezer. A glass door opens onto the southern terrace and gardens. The kitchen is well and fully equipped with a full compliment of cutlery, cookware and crockery for the house. Large double doors lead through into the dining room. There is also a “chambre froide” which has an American fridge freezer, and an ice machine.  The room itself is chilled to 15 degrees so it makes it perfect for food and drinks storage.

There is a downstairs WC.

Dining Room: with a round dining table seating 8 (dining in the summer normally takes place outside) and large glass doors giving generous light and leading out to the southern terrace. There is a wood-burning fireplace and glass fronted cupboard with crockery and glassware.

This is a large room set apart from the main house. It has seating for 10, which can if needed seat up to 18 for dining. This is a great facility to have if the weather is not good. There are 2 large ceiling fans.

The gardens at Domaine de St Fiacre are a tour de force on the grand scale. Difficult to describe easily in a few words. It has at its centre a formal garden of perfect symmetry adjoining which are many separate worlds of their own.

The centre piece of the garden is a layout of magnificent formal plantings. Impressive by any standards with a rectangular pond adjoining the southern terrace at its head and a waterway that forms the centre line along its whole length. This is lined each side by a row of olives each planted in a massive terracotta pot. Either side of this are formal lawns with topiary hedging and a series of mini framed gardens each one with its own tree as the centrepiece.

On each side of these is a shaded avenue of vines and wisteria with flowering borders on each side. Two predominantly lavender gardens mirror each other at the southern most end of the garden.

At the south eastern corner of the garden, outside the formal garden is another world again for children. Here there is a large area with post and rale fences separating it from the meadows. Within that is a children’s Wendy house complete with its own mini bedroom, mini bed, bedroom cooker and mini garden furniture under its own mini pergola! On its other side is a timber built structure with a terrace on two levels and lookout platform at the very top. There is also a sand pit, with slide, another climbing frame / area, with ladders, slides, swings and a ground level trampoline.

Four cattle (not real ones!) graze the meadow. A children’s paradise.

A short walk to the west of the house on the outside edge of the formal garden is the swimming pool set in its own garden area with an African theme. A mother and baby elephant (not real ones!) approach the pool from a willow plantation and a giraffe pokes its head above a tall hedge. The swimming pool measures 5m x 14m and is 1.15m deep at the shallow end and 1.70m deep and the deep end.

There are 8 sun beds on a timber decking surrounding the pool. There is a separate seating area with rattan furniture under a loggia which also has a long wooden table with benches for eating poolside.

There is a pool house with a small kitchen with plastic glasses, cutlery, crockery etc. A sink, fridge and dishwasher. In a separate corner of the pool area is a magnificent bamboo framed sofa bed with its own thatched apex roof.

In another corner, reached by a raised decking pathway is a small garden house with oriental decoration. In it is a simple single bed / sofa and the walls are decorated with eastern rugs and throws.

There are poolside side shower and WC facilities.

NB: The pool is heated to 24 degrees during the summer months at no additional cost. The pool heating cannot operate between November and March.

The tennis court is at the front of the house and can be reached from the African Garden swimming pool through a lavender pathway. The tennis court has an inbuilt basketball net and two inbuilt football nets so it can be turned into a great football pitch. There are also floodlights for those who want to avoid the heat of the day and play in the evening. Four tennis rackets, tennis balls, a football and basketball are provided.

Marseille (45 minutes)

Nîmes (1 hour)

Avignon (20 mins) – During May to September there is a direct train from London St Pancras to Avignon with a journey time of 6 hours. Please check the Eurostar website for the schedule.