A farmhouse & barn for sale in Vienne (86), a Poitou smallholding or a cut-stone barn to convert: between the cereal plain of the Haut-Poitou and the Civray bocage, this department has kept a substantial and affordable stock of farm buildings. This page brings together the farmhouses, barns and mas for sale in Vienne published on ma-propriete.fr: a Poitou farmhouse with an enclosed courtyard and outbuildings, a stone barn to convert, a farmhouse with cereal land, buildings with pasture for horses.
Below you will find the actual prices of the Vienne rural market, an overview of where to look, from the Haut-Poitou to the Civray area, and the points to check before buying a former farm building. The limestone soil and the department's arable-farming vocation explain the often generous size of its barns. 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 Vienne (86)? According to DVF data (notarised sales) analysed by the ma-propriete.fr observatory, the median price of a country house in Vienne (86) stood at €144,000 in 2025, with an average price of €149,834 and a median price of €1,414/m² of living space (2,311 house sales in rural municipalities over the year). The price range is wide: 10% of houses sold for less than €72,900 (floor price, 1st decile) and 10% for more than €237,777 (ceiling price, 9th decile). The typical country house here offers 107 m² of living space on an average plot of 3,411 m², i.e. around 0.3 ha.
This market is well below the regional median (Nouvelle-Aquitaine: €170,000) and well below the national median (€189,200). Since the second half of 2020, the median price has risen from €132,000 to €144,000, i.e. +9.1%; over one year (2024-2025) the change is +4.3%.
| 2025 indicator | Vienne | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | France |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price | €144,000 | €170,000 | €189,200 |
| Average price | €149,834 | €188,636 | €207,100 |
| Floor price (1st decile) | €72,900 | €83,000 | €90,000 |
| Ceiling price (9th decile) | €237,777 | €315,785 | €340,000 |
| Median price per m² of living space | €1,414/m² | €1,657/m² | €1,830/m² |
| Average living space | 107 m² | 110 m² | 108 m² |
| Average plot size | 3,411 m² | 4,005 m² | 3,181 m² |
| Number of sales in 2025 | 2,311 | 26,126 | 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 Vienne (86) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inland tourist areas (hinterland, mountains) | €110,330 | €1,115/m² | +8.5% | 392 |
| Peri-urban countryside (city catchment area) | €155,000 | €1,535/m² | +8.7% | 9,370 |
| Deep countryside (outside urban influence) | €107,500 | €1,056/m² | +9.5% | 4,512 |
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 typical Vienne farmhouse is built around an enclosed courtyard: the dwelling, the cowshed, a fodder barn and sometimes a bread oven are arranged around a square yard, in local limestone under a tile or slate roof depending on the area. This differs from the open longère found further west. There is no local equivalent of the Provençal mas; here the terms used are Poitou farmhouse or tenant farm.
The barns, often generously proportioned thanks to the former cereal-growing tradition, convert into a home or into gîtes, subject to local planning zoning. The attached hectares of farmland, suited to arable farming, also work as pasture for horses or for permaculture projects on the smaller plots. A well, a dovecote or a bread oven still accompanies some well-preserved enclosed courtyards.
The Haut-Poitou, around Neuville-de-Poitou, Mirebeau and Loudun, has a wide choice of cereal farms with outbuildings at accessible prices. Towards Chauvigny and the Vienne valley, stone farmhouses sit in a more undulating landscape. The Civray area, around Civray and Charroux, still has plentiful and inexpensive farm buildings, close to the Charente border. Towards Lussac-les-Châteaux and the Gartempe valley, to the east, rural properties also remain affordable.
Near Poitiers and along access to its TGV station, renovated farmhouses trade at higher prices, helped by the local job market. Around Montmorillon, to the east, between bocage and the nearby Brenne, prices stay more affordable despite a sought-after setting.
Check the permitted use of the buildings: a barn in an agricultural zone of the local plan can only be converted into a home if it is listed as eligible for a change of use. Check the roof, including the asbestos-cement sheeting common on more recent farm sheds, the timber frame and the drainage, often not connected to mains in rural areas. Also check any tanks or manure pits left over from former livestock activity on the site.
If farmland is included, ask about any current farm lease and the pre-emption right of the Safer, very active in this arable-farming region. Finally, cost the renovation precisely, as restoring a large barn can represent a substantial budget, particularly if the timber frame needs to be entirely rebuilt and the floor slab redone.
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