Exceptional properties: a lost and found hamlet, for sale with Sextant

It is relatively common to have atypical properties in one’s portfolio, but this time one of our agents has been mandated to sell a property of a rather unique style, which does not really fit into any pre-established category. Explanations.

In June 2018, a group of young Breton trek enthusiasts set out to traverse Brittany, through a multi-day walk that was to take them from Brest to Rennes.

It was on leaving the Monts d’Arrée, when crossing a woodland a few kilometres after Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec, that the group of friends came upon what seemed to them to be a small abandoned village, with houses overtaken by the surrounding nature. They even identified a path blocked by brambles and wild grass, leading to the village. The group members stopped there and explored the surrounding dwellings, even making short videos of the place with their mobile phones before resuming their journey and completing their trek. The young people spoke about their discovery in the following days and showed the content on their phones, which did not fail to surprise their interlocutors, as well as the authorities.

The gendarmerie carried out an investigation and eventually traced this forgotten hamlet quite easily, identified as being in fact the village of Tregomelin, appearing in local and national registers, and one wonders how it could have been forgotten for over 200 years.

An explanation began to emerge when the bailiffs and notaries were able to identify its last inhabitant… who was none other than the owner of the hamlet. Tregomelin never had more than eleven houses nor more than a handful of inhabitants, who left the village in the first decades of the 19th century, at a dark time when the whole country was shaken by the Napoleonic wars. The inhabitants would have transferred their house to Loïc Madec, a farmer who remained on site, before settling further away, in search of better conditions. Mr Madec disappeared in turn a few years later, in the middle of the century, leaving no heir.

As the hamlet had no archaeological value, the state decided to go through a tender process to sell all the houses that make up Tregomelin, through a single lot. The estate agencies in the area were therefore approached, and it was ultimately Mrs Gouëllec, a local Sextant representative, who was mandated for the sale!

While most of the houses in the hamlet have heavily suffered from the weather, a few are still standing and can be restored by future owners who will know to call upon the tradespeople in the region to restore this curious hamlet’s undeniable charm and character. The most courageous will not be afraid to put their shoulder to the wheel to undertake major renovation works themselves.

This most original property does not go unnoticed, and it is whispered in the villages of the area that some visitors are already showing interest. Among these, there are said to be entrepreneurs already experienced in managing gites for clients looking to get away from it all. But also, a survivalist residing in the Paris region, searching for a place where he could live in perfect autonomy and ensure his survival in the event of a global cataclysm.

The village, somewhat cut off from the world, could well meet these expectations. “No cases of Covid have been recorded in the village of Tregomelin,” remarks with a smile Martine Gouëllec, our local agent, mandated for this particular sale.

The listing for this village is to be discovered on the site of our agent