This is to give you some idea of scale
There is no septic tank (first job for me) but there is an outside loo up the garden it has a proper toilet but we need to take a bucket of water with us.
We had the beams shot blasted because of smoke damage
Traditional lime plaster, Good for old walls Bad for hands
we spent 3 weeks living in the Limousin and travelled about 1700 miles looking at houses and ended up in the Charente. France is a very big place so do not assume that just because the picture is nice that it is the area you will like