A farmhouse and barn for sale in Meuse (55), a limestone single-block farmhouse or a barn to convert: this rural département, one of the least densely populated in France, offers an abundant and particularly affordable stock of farm buildings. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Meuse published on ma-propriete.fr: a single-block farmhouse with barn and cowshed, a stone farmhouse to convert, an agricultural shed, a holding with pasture and farmland.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Meuse rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Barrois area to the Argonne, and the points to check before buying a former farm building. If your project is tourism-related, our white paper on setting up a rural gîte will help you cost it.
There are no statistics dedicated to farmhouses and barns: a renovated farmhouse sells like a country house with outbuildings and land, whereas a bare barn or a farm to renovate often sells well below. The most useful benchmark therefore remains the price of country houses.
How much does a country house cost in Meuse (55)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Meuse (55) stood at €125,750 in 2025, with an average price of €128,849 and a median price of €1,121/m² of living space (886 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €57,000 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €204,275 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 115 m² of living space on an average plot of 1,986 m², i.e. around 0.2 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Grand Est: €150,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €114,500 to €125,750, i.e. +9.8%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +4.8%.
| 2025 indicator | Meuse | Grand Est | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €125,750 | €150,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €128,849 | €156,757 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €57,000 | €70,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €204,275 | €255,000 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,121/m² | €1,400/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 115 m² | 112 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 1,986 m² | 2,025 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 886 | 7,886 | 150,313 |
A departmental average hides large gaps. A smallholding to renovate, a restored longère with its outbuildings, a farmhouse on several hectares of land or a manor house with parkland do not sell at the same price, and the location matters as much as the building: coastline, tourist area, peri-urban countryside close to a job market or deep countryside. The table below shows the median price of country houses in Meuse (55) by type of municipality (cumulative sales from mid-2020 to 2025) and its change between 2021 and 2025.
| Type of municipality | Median price 2020-2025 | Median price per m² | Change 2021-2025 | Sales 2020-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential coastline * | €115,500 | €1,039/m² | +21.3% | 40 |
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) * | €105,100 | €969/m² | +14.2% | 68 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €125,000 | €1,141/m² | -1.1% | 1,448 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €119,000 | €1,045/m² | +22.1% | 3,817 |
* Between 30 and 99 sales: indicative value.
Note: in Meuse (55), the municipalities classified as "coastline" have no access to the sea. They are municipalities bordering lakes of more than 1,000 hectares (or, in Eure, the Seine estuary) covered by the 1986 Loi Littoral, which also applies to such inland lakes and estuaries.
These benchmarks help you assess a listing, estimate a property before putting it up for sale, or set your budget for a holiday home or a permanent move to the French countryside. To go further, see our observatory of country house prices in France (national, regional and departmental analysis, downloadable annual report) and work out the full cost of your purchase, including French notary fees, with our notary fees calculator.
The farmhouse in Meuse, as elsewhere in Lorraine, is often built as a single block: the dwelling, the cowshed and the barn combined under one roof of local limestone, with a wide cart gateway. A more recent agricultural shed frequently completes the group in villages that are still active. There is no mas in Meuse: the term has no local use here.
These buildings offer substantial volumes for one of the most affordable budgets in the region: a barn can become a home or a gîte, subject to local planning zoning. The adjoining land, often several hectares of pasture or farmland, suits livestock farming, horses or a permaculture project.
The Barrois area, around Bar-le-Duc and Ligny-en-Barrois, has the widest and most affordable choice of single-block farmhouses to renovate. Towards Commercy and the Meuse valley, farmhouses mix with forests and orchards. In the Meuse Argonne, around Clermont-en-Argonne, rural buildings are more isolated.
Around Verdun and Saint-Mihiel, on the Meuse river valley, renovated farmhouses sell slightly above the départemental average. Towards Stenay and the northern Meuse, in the Woëvre and Chiers area, the market stays very accessible.
Check the change of use status in the agricultural zone of the local plan: a cowshed or farm barn can only be converted into a dwelling if it is identified as eligible for a change of use. Check the roof (tile, or asbestos-cement on sheds), the timber frame and the drainage, often old in the least populated villages.
If farmland is included, ask about any current farm lease and about the pre-emption right of the Safer (the French rural land agency). Finally, cost the renovation precisely: converting a single-block farmhouse into a home frequently costs as much as the purchase itself.
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