Happy Wednesday everyone! This gorgeous péniche built in 1949 and renovated into a boutique B&B would be the most PERFECT Christmas gift. Anyone want to give up their 9-5 to become the owner of a bed & breakfast on a historical barge?
This péniche is huge inside, with a boatman’s apartment plus three additional bedrooms, each with their own small bathroom, stunning living area, and a whole entire garage serviced by a crane to stash a car in!
Per Wikipedia, Péniche are barges that “were built to fit the post-1880s French waterways and the locks of Freycinet gauge.”
Per the listing on PAP:
Housing completely refitted in 2013, ideal for renting guest cabins.
-1: Boatman’s apartment at the back with lounge and wood stove
bedroom, shower room, washbasin, wc
-2: Living room, open kitchen, dining room of 45m2, completely glazed, very bright
three bedrooms each with shower room, washbasin, private toilet
laundry room with washing machine and dryer area
-3: Wedge of 46m2 serving workshop or to arrange
car garage with car crane. possibility of buying the car adapted to the garage (opel Agila)
-4: Generator set room with watertight bulkheads
-5: Peak front with double bed, private shower and toilet
-6: large terrace of 20m2
-7: 360 ° glazed salon wheelhouse, equipped with 2 VHF, AIS, Atis, intercom. 6m aluminum footbridge
oil central heating
electricity at shore, or in autonomy thanks to a converter
water tank 2000 l at the back and 800 l at the front
-Titre navigation and community certi fi cate renewed in 2017-expertise background 2017
-motor GM 238cv revised-generator-solar panels 1000w
-standard for the production of autonomous drinking water
-2 alternators, start battery game, home battery
Place at the port of Nevers, the boat can be delivered in France and Benelux by the owner.
There is an additional listing on CapiFrance here.
Learn more about péniches HERE.
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