Spacious Ardèche farmhouse for groups – natural swimming pool, 26 guests.
GATHER. SHARE. ENJOY. A place to slow down and spend time together. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE HOUSE La Grange de la Chouette is a large, carefully renovated Ardèche farmhouse designed for group stays in a natural, peaceful, and inspiring setting. Here, everything is designed to encourage shared moments, without ever sacrificing comfort.
Exceptional natural setting with 5,000 m² private garden Natural swimming pool to relax all summer Spacious indoor areas for gathering, working, or celebrating A real group house that stays warm and never impersonal A versatile venue: groups of couples, family vacations, workshops, reunions, retreats, seminars
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A SPACE THAT ADAPTS TO YOU The heart of the house is a large 100 m² flexible space, ideal for shared meals, workshops, yoga sessions, or meetings. It can comfortably accommodate large groups and easily transforms according to your needs. Outside, the terraces, pergola, and open spaces invite you to live outdoors from morning to evening, while the children enjoy the playground.
COOK. EAT. SHARE. The fully equipped kitchen makes group life easy:
Professional 5-burner range + double oven 2 refrigerators + 1 freezer Industrial dishwasher Complete cookware for cooking for 26 people
Whether you prepare meals together or use our local catering partners, everything is designed for large-scale cooking.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SLEEPING SPACES FOR EVERYONE The house offers a perfect balance between privacy and conviviality. FOR COUPLES:
2 double en-suite bedrooms with private bathroom 4 double bedrooms with shared bathrooms nearby Flexible configuration according to preferences
FOR FAMILIES:
1 mixed room with double bed + 2 single beds 3 shared rooms for children (2 to 4 beds) Connecting rooms possible Separate spaces so everyone can find their rhythm
FOR MIXED GROUPS:
Perfect for 3-4 couples + children Or multigenerational families Adaptable configuration according to your needs
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE REGION: ARDÈCHE HERMITAGE Located in Northern Ardèche wine country between Valence and Tournon-sur-Rhône. A greener and quieter Ardèche than the touristy south, perfect for combining nature and vineyard discovery.
DISTANCES FROM THE HOUSE:
Saint-Félicien (supermarkets): 15 min Tain-l'Hermitage (vineyards, Chocolate Museum): 20 min Tournon-sur-Rhône (shops, market, ViaRhôna): 25 min Gorges du Doux (railbike, hiking, swimming): 25 min Saint-Donat medieval village (Monday market): 25 min Mastrou steam train: 30 min Safari de Peaugres: 35 min Valence TGV station: 50 min
SIGNATURE ACTIVITIES: Historic steam train through the Gorges du Doux - Suspended railbike (book well in advance) - Hermitage wine cellars (Chapoutier, Jaboulet) - Valrhona Chocolate Museum - ViaRhôna (cycling path along the Rhône) - River hiking and swimming - Safari de Peaugres (1,000 animals) - Weekly local markets Important: We are in Northern Ardèche wine country. The famous Ardèche Gorges (Vallon-Pont-d'Arc) are 1h30 to the south.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT TYPES OF STAYS? FAMILIES, GROUPS OF COUPLES & FRIENDS Perfect for 3-4 couples + children, multigenerational families, or groups of friends. Generous common spaces for cooking and gathering, while maintaining personal space. Examples: wine weekends with friends, shared discovery weeks, birthdays, reunions.
RETREATS & WORKSHOPS Peaceful setting with flexible spaces. Yoga retreats, personal development workshops, meditation, professional training. Equipment: yoga mats, sound system, projector. Caterers and shuttles on request.
FAMILY REUNIONS & CELEBRATIONS Ideal for bringing multiple generations together. Natural pool and garden allow everyone to find their pace.
SEMINARS & OFFSITES Modular 100 m² room with tables, chairs, projector. Fiber optic Wi-Fi. Outdoor break spaces. Team-building activities: ViaRhôna cycling, canyoning, wine tasting. Capacity up to 36 people during the day.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT GUESTS APPRECIATE "The professional kitchen – we cooked for 22 without any problem" "Perfect for 5 couples – private space + shared moments" "The natural pool, our meeting point every late afternoon"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AMENITIES INDOOR: Fiber Wi-Fi, TV, professional kitchen, heating, projector, sound system OUTDOOR: Natural pool, deck chairs, barbecues, playground, terraces, 5,000 m² garden RECREATION: Billiards, table tennis, foosball, pétanque, volleyball
━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACCOMMODATION:
26 people max for sleeping 9 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms 2 en-suite bedrooms + 4 double bedrooms + 3 shared bedrooms
COMMON SPACES:
Up to 36 people during the day (without accommodation)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHECK-IN / CHECK-OUT Weekdays: Monday 12pm → Friday 2pm Weekend: Friday 6pm → Sunday 6pm Full week: Saturday 4pm → Saturday 10am Flexible schedules according to availability.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACCESS ADDRESS: Bargay, 715 route de Choisine, 07410 Colombier-le-Vieux BY CAR:
Valence: 50 min Lyon: 1h15 Parking for 8-10 vehicles
BY TRAIN: Valence TGV: 50 min (shuttles possible) Tain/Tournon station: 25 min