The largest house on the estate. Five bedrooms, a table for ten, an open fire, and a covered terrace that still works when the weather doesn't.
Maison des Tournesols is the biggest house at Le Suquet, and the one most groups end up organising themselves around. Five bedrooms, two of them on the ground floor opening straight onto the grass, and a dining table that seats ten without anybody eating off their lap.
The ground floor runs in one line: a lounge with an open fire at one end, the stairs in the middle, and the kitchen and dining room at the other. Along the front, a covered terrace — roofed, not just shaded, which is the difference between a nice idea and somewhere you can actually eat when it rains.
Upstairs, three more bedrooms under the roof timbers, one of them a family room with a sofa bed. Four separate washing places between five bedrooms, so nobody queues.
Named for the fields. In July they start at the fence and don't stop until the horizon.
Everything below belongs to this house alone — its own front door, its own kitchen, its own covered terrace. The pool, tennis court and grounds are shared with the rest of the estate.
Dark beams the length of the ceiling, a brick chimney breast with a wood burner set into stone, and an old armoire against the far wall. Light comes in from two sides. There is a sofa bed here, which is how a house for ten occasionally becomes a house for twelve.
A long refectory table with a bench down one side, seating ten. The kitchen sits behind a brick-fronted bar, so whoever is cooking is still in the conversation. Terracotta underfoot, exposed stone, and the staircase turning up out of the corner.
Induction hob set into the patterned tile of the bar, oven, dishwasher, full-height fridge and a coffee machine. French doors beside it open onto the grass. Equipped for cooking properly rather than reheating — which, with Issigeac market six minutes away, is the point.
Beamed ceiling, pale walls, and French doors that open straight onto the grass — no stairs, no threshold to speak of. A basin in the room; the WC is next door on the same floor.
The mirror of the first, on the other side of the house: tall French doors, voile curtains, a basin in the room. Two ground-floor bedrooms is unusual for a house this size, and it is the reason multi-generation families keep booking this one.
The largest room in the house, running up into the roof timbers with a chandelier hanging between them. A double bed at one end, a corner sofa bed at the other, and enough floor between them that children can be sent to it without anyone feeling hard done by.
The one people photograph. A carved and gilded green headboard that came with the house and has outlasted several decorating opinions, under sloping timbers with a dormer window onto the trees. A wash basin room adjoins it, checkerboard floor and all.
Quiet, at the far end of the corridor, with a beamed sloping ceiling and a window into the trees. A shower room adjoins it directly, which makes this the most self-contained of the three upstairs.
Off the landing, serving the family room: a walk-in shower, basin, and a window that looks into the trees rather than a light well. A separate WC sits on the same landing.
Two bedrooms on the ground floor, three above. The living rooms run in a line behind the covered terrace, with the stairs between them. Every bedroom has a basin or a washing room of its own, and there is a WC on each floor.
Indicative layout · not to scale · all beds 160 × 200
Issigeac holds its market on Sunday morning and Eymet its night market on Tuesday. Monpazier and Beaumont-du-Périgord are two of the better bastides in the south-west, and neither takes long to reach.
For wine, Château Tour des Gendres, Château de la Jaubertie and L'Ancienne Cure are all about a quarter of an hour away. For the river, canoes from La Roque-Gageac down to Beynac, the Maxange caves, and the beach at Pont de Vicq. And for the days when nobody wants to move, there is the pool and there are the cedars.
Tournesols and Seigneur book together more often than not — close enough to share dinner, separate enough to avoid sharing a kitchen.
Dates and rates are online. If you want this house together with one or two of the others, write to us instead — it's quicker than trying to make the calendar do it.