A manor house for sale in Tarn-et-Garonne sits within a landscape of pink brick and orchard-covered hillsides, between the valleys of the Garonne, the Tarn and the Aveyron. Around Montauban, Moissac and the bastide towns of Lauzerte and Caussade, the department has kept a number of noble farmhouses often flanked by a freestanding dovecote, a distinctive feature of the region. Properties on offer range from restored gentleman's residences with converted outbuildings to old houses still awaiting renovation. Many were remodelled after the phylloxera crisis reshaped the local vineyards at the turn of the twentieth century. Browse the manor houses for sale listed by Tarn-et-Garonne's private owners, agencies and notaries.
This page brings together real price benchmarks for grand residences in Tarn-et-Garonne, the areas where they cluster, what sets the local building apart and the points to check before buying a gentleman's residence in brick country. It also helps distinguish a well-preserved original structure from a more recent rebuild, common after twentieth-century farm consolidation. To approach the purchase of a Tarn-et-Garonne residence with confidence, rely on our guide to buying prestige property in France.
DVF land registry data does not identify manor houses as such: the benchmarks below cover sales of houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha, above €1,000/m², tracked by our observatory. They frame the market for large residences without describing it entirely: an estate with 30 ha of parkland or a listed monument sold with its farmland falls outside this scope.
In Tarn-et-Garonne, 50 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €531,200*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €414,500 to €696,500 and a median of €1,496/m² of living space, for an average of 365 m² of living space and 19,855 m² of land. Across the Occitanie region, the 2025 median stands at €662,500 (126 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarn-et-Garonne (2021-2025) | 50 | €531,200* | €414,500 – €696,500 | 1,496 |
| Occitanie (2025) | 126 | €662,500 | €430,000 – €1,477,000 | 1,804 |
| France (2025) | 981 | €822,000 | €428,000 – €3,100,000 | 2,308 |
The breakdown by stratum (coastal, rural tourist, ordinary rural) and the five-year trend are in our observatory of prestige property prices in France (in French). Before making an offer, work out purchase costs and borrowing capacity with our financial tools and calculators.
Source: DVF (DGFiP), transactions from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025, processed by ma-propriete.fr; prices rounded to the nearest €100. * Fewer than 100 sales: read as an indication only.
The noble buildings of Tarn-et-Garonne stand out for their almost systematic use of locally fired brick, paired with shallow-pitched Roman-tile roofs. Facades often show multi-tier corbelled cornices below the eaves and limestone window surrounds around Moissac. The plan stays modest: a two-storey main block, sometimes completed by a corner turret, set within a walled courtyard or garden closed off by a brick wall pierced by an arched gateway. Roof pitches were kept shallow deliberately, in keeping with regional convention rather than necessity.
The freestanding dovecote, often circular or square and covered by a four-sided roof, is the department's most distinctive outbuilding, a legacy of the prosperous farming of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Timber-framed barns, tobacco-drying sheds in the Garonne valley and old silkworm houses linked to sericulture are also found. Current restorations keep the brick exposed, rebuild the corbelled cornices to match the original and readily convert dovecotes into additional living space. Shallow-pitched roofs ease maintenance but demand careful attention to ridge waterproofing, often neglected on long-vacant buildings.
Around Montauban, a brick town on the Tarn, and across the Garonne plain towards Castelsarrasin and Valence-d'Agen, noble residences sit alongside large fruit-growing estates. The Moissac district, known for its abbey church, and the Quercy Blanc hillsides around Lauzerte and Montaigu-de-Quercy offer residences overlooking chasselas-grape orchards. To the east, the Aveyron gorges, around Bruniquel, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val and Caussade, hold a tighter, limestone-built stock of properties in rugged, secluded terrain.
Montauban station is served by TGV towards Paris and Toulouse, which eases travel from the Garonne plain; the A20 motorway crosses the department from north to south. The most sought-after areas lie around Montauban and along the Garonne valley; the Aveyron gorges and the Quercy Blanc, more remote, remain markedly more affordable for a residence of comparable size. Local notaries regularly handle rural estate sales of this kind, sometimes a quieter route to market than public listings.
Several dovecotes and old residences in the department are listed on the heritage inventory or stand within the surroundings of a historic monument, notably around Moissac abbey church: any change to a facade there requires the approval of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. In flood-prone areas along the Garonne, the Tarn and the Aveyron, the risk-prevention plan strictly limits extensions and basement works. In the Quercy Blanc, clay-limestone ground exposes some buildings to soil shrink-swell movement, worth monitoring before any works.
Have the structure of the dovecotes checked, sometimes weakened by years of neglect, along with the timber frames of tobacco sheds, often converted without a prior survey. Check the private drainage system, look for dry rot in the dampest rooms and inspect the old oak joinery. Access via rural tracks or farm rights of way, common for these secluded properties, should be confirmed before signing. A structural survey beforehand is advisable, particularly for corner turrets, whose old foundations rarely tolerate years of neglect.
Manor house and gentleman's residence listings in Tarn-et-Garonne come from private owners, agencies specialising in character properties and notaries; filter them by price, living space, outbuildings and land, and set an e-mail alert to follow new listings. Properties along the Garonne draw strong demand, particularly from buyers relocating from Toulouse. To widen the search to Lot, Tarn or Haute-Garonne, browse the manor houses for sale in Occitanie.
