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Apartment Passy - Paris 16ᵗʰ (75)
A 225m² Haussmannian-style family apartment with two garrets, set back from bustle in the chic 16th arrondissement of Paris. The main door into the elegant edifice of dressed stone is fitted with an entry code system and intercom for security. You step into communal areas. They are well maintained and include an on-site caretaker. The apartment lies on the first floor. A double door leads into a spacious hallway. This hallway and the reception rooms into which it leads cover around 111m² of floor area. These reception spaces are made up of a street-facing lounge opposite the entrance and a court-facing dining room on the left. They include ceiling mouldings that are particularly well sculpted and that run above doors with entablatures embellished with decorative acanthus leaves. Chevron parquet extends across the rooms and the ceiling is 3.2 metres up from the floor. All the rooms have marble fireplaces, which are particularly refined in the reception rooms. Three sets of Haussmannian French windows lead out onto a balcony. They bring much natural light into the double reception space, which has wooden panelling forming bookcases at one end. A white marble fireplace, sculpted in a Rococo style, can warm you up in winter. On the left, there is a dining room, with high dado panelling and mouldings. The room is bathed in natural light from two tall windows that look out at the tree-dotted court. Opposite, a double door leads into the master bedroom with its wardrobes and fireplace. Its bathroom lies between the dining room and the entrance hall. Next, there is a bedroom that has been turned into a walk-in wardrobe. Then there is another bedroom. A shower room near the two lavatories lies opposite these rooms. It is situated beside the door that leads into the pantry corridor with its tall dressers. Lastly, a kitchen, into which a backdoor leads, ends up side by side with the dining room through the circular layout. The final section is made up of a corridor that connects to a shower room beside the kitchen. It ends with a last bedroom with a tall window and fireplace and that was probably for domestic staff before. Two top-floor garrets, which you can reach via a lift, complete this property.
…$2,579,100251m²4bedrooms1bathroomBy Patrice Besse
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Apartment with terrace Lille (59)
A third-floor apartment, with a garage, in Lille in an Art Deco style building from 1925. The apartment is located on the third storey of a stone building built in 1925, situated on Boulevard de la Liberté, a thoroughfare created in 1860 as part of Haussmann’s urbanisation programme in the Second Empire period. Today, it is lined with plane trees and runs past the fine arts museum as well as Lille’s prefecture, providing easy access to the city-centre. The seven-storey building was designed by architect Charles Sarazin and possesses an Art Deco inspired facade, which boasts strict geometry characterised by sober lines and embellished with stylised patterns as well as decorative ironwork, and combines concrete, stone and brick. The main entrance to the residence is via a large, glazed door, equipped with an intercom. At the rear of the entrance hall, the inner courtyard and cellars can be reached via a large, Art Deco inspired, wrought-iron gate. To the right at the back of the vestibule, there is an elevator to all the storeys, except for the seventh floor, encased in a metal hoist-way. A distinctive feature of the building is the excellent condition of its communal areas. A 14-m² former maid’s room on the seventh floor and two cellars in the basement are also included in the property.
…$953,100162m²4bedroomsland 161m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Tours (37)
Between Tours and Vendôme, a fully renovated former mill, with outbuildings and 1.3-hectare tree-filled grounds. From the centre of the village, a narrow street leads to the property. There are two entrance gates, one to the front and one to the rear of the buildings. The first opens onto a parking area and a car port where two vehicles can be parked. A drive runs through part of the grounds, through which the River Brenne flows, and leads around the former mill to a patio enclosed by a wooden fence with a gate in front of the building, which is made up of two edifices and was built with rubble stone covered with rendering. The different sized windows have brick frames, which is typical of the region, and the large patio doors on the ground floor let light stream generously into all the rooms. A former lean-to standing against the gable end has been transformed into a summer kitchen and is glazed on three sides. Five bedrooms and a vast office space are spread over the first two floors. The attic level forms a single room and the whole building has recently been fully renovated. Next to the mill, an outbuilding with a bread oven could be converted, as could the brick outbuilding alongside the narrow street. Opposite the mill, a barn is used for storing gardening material and also serves as a workshop. The banks of the mill race have been planted with flower beds and the grounds are very well kept, with a variety of trees, a range of landscaped spaces, lawns and a vegetable garden.
…$936,300385m²6bedroomsland 1.4haBy Patrice Besse
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Manor Tours (37)
An18th-century manor house, on a former wine-growing estate of 12 hectares, with wine warehouses, outbuildings, grounds, a pond and woods, 60 kilometres from Tours. A small country road skirts the property’s tall stone walls, followed by its initial outbuildings before reaching its gate, which faces a wide tree-lined lane that extends between fields and farm tracks. At the property’s gate, a stone wall opens onto a wide courtyard, planted in the middle with two impressive Chinese mulberry trees, while, the manor, visible in the background, is flanked by its outbuildings on either side. Dating from the 18th century, the property was originally a wine-growing estate, while the two-storey manor, built in the Directoire style out of local stone, embodies traditional architecture, specific to the region. With an inhabitable floor area of approximately 435 m², the dwelling consists of a long central structure – the main façade of which is cadenced by doors and small-paned windows – flanked on either side by two adjacent lower extensions and topped with a slate roof, which is, in turn, crowned with zinc ornamental décor and finials. As for the back of the house, although different from the front, it still combines the elegance of the dwelling's symmetrical rectilinear windows and shed dormers with, in the middle, a unique triangular pediment, which adds a touch or originality to the whole. In addition, vaulted cellars extend under the entire building, while, to one side, a completely independent five-room caretaker’s cottage abuts a large courtyard, former stables and agricultural storage buildings, which are also accessible from the small country road via a second gate, providing an independent and more inconspicuous entrance. Moreover, the property also includes, on the other side of the front courtyard, another outbuilding, which is currently used as a holiday cottage with a capacity of 6 to 8 people. With a grass-covered, shady interior courtyard, this building has its own private entrance via a separate gate and faces a former wine warehouse, today reconverted into a reception hall with hardwood floors.
…$1,546,300815m²12bedroomsland 12.3haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole (79)
A large, elegant and comfortable house and its neighbouring building in need of restoration, in a beautiful dry-stone village in the upper Sèvre valley. The main house, built out of rubble limestone, overlooks, on its garden side, the Sèvre River from all four of its storeys, while its other façades look out on one of the most beautiful villages in the department with its medieval chateau. All the living spaces are located on the ground floor, which includes: a large living room, a small sitting room, a library or office and dining room, all decorated with nailed wide-plank hardwood floors, a variety of different fireplaces and ceilings with exposed beams or delicate stucco patterns, while the kitchen, left in its original state, has an antique square terracotta-tile floor. In the other building, a vast room, called 'the chapel', accessible via the small sitting room, could be used for galas, concerts or theatre performances. The first floor contains four bedrooms, each in a unique style – one of which has a powder room with lavatory – as well as a vast separate shower room with lavatory. On the second floor, under the insulated roof, a lounge space opens onto the staircase, while a last bedroom, bathed in sunlight, is located near the bathroom with lavatory. The rest of the floor is reserved for the attic space. As for the garden level, it includes a summer kitchen and furnace room (wood-pellet central heating), a workshop, a summer shower room with lavatory and a cellar. The house’s tile roof is in great condition as is the roofing for the outbuildings, while most of the windows are double-glazed. The garden is organised into six spaces, including the courtyard enclosed on three of its four sides by two barns and the deep, asymmetrical quadrilateral swimming pool. The four storeys of the house in need of restoration – which a small courtyard separates from the first – are accessed by a spiral staircase, which is undoubtedly older than the date displayed above the building’s arched front door: 1724. Although some of its window frames have been changed recently and the shutters are new, there are eight rooms in total that need to be refurbished, in addition to three cellars and two attic spaces. An interior garden, in which a palm tree provides a Mediterranean touch, opens onto a patio under which, thanks to the slope of the street that descends towards the bridge over the river, a garage was created.
…$391,300560m²4bedroomsland 1,878m²By Patrice Besse
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Contemporary house with garden and terrace Lille (59)
10 kilometres southeast of Lille, the Sterckeman house by the architect Paul Chemetov, nestled within a tree-filled garden and surrounded by pastures. Built out of a 5-tonne Corten steel structure and tarmacked breezeblocks in the middle of its garden, the raised black block punctuated with large picture windows, which comprises this singular habitation, is listed on the supplementary inventory for historical monuments. Towards 1970, Christian Sterckeman asked Paul Chemetov, a young architect, to build a house on the Pévèle plain. They met several months earlier for an industrial and commercial building project for the sale and distribution of caravans under the framework of his professional activity. 'Living can be camping. A way of settling down without anchoring, of taking hold without taking root'. The construction was therefore designed as a prototype for an economical, reproducible, working-class model typical of its time. Perched on stilts, with its white diagonal triangulation bars, its large skydome windows and plumbing pipe guardrails, the Sterckeman house stands in the middle of a tree-filled garden surrounded by pastures. Everything is within sight. This is, of course, an architectural decision firmly inscribed in the landscape, as Paul Chemetov notes. Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Architecture in 1980, who at one point declared, 'architecture is a moral construct', he designed several emblematic Parisian buildings like the Ministry of Finances in 1989. For him, the traces of the construction and the experience of the materials mattered: 'Here and now the courage is to build. Let’s leave fashion to the milliners and graphics to the graphic designers'. The Sterckeman house, with its concrete, rough breezeblock walls, exposed bricks and red metal framework, is basically a manifesto in action: that of Paul Chemetov’s societal engagement as a protagonist for the recognition of metallic structures.
…$728,900179m²3bedrooms1bathroomland 8,895m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Labastide-d'Armagnac (40)
A house steeped in history, from the 14th, 17th and 18th centuries, with a separate garden and barn, in the heart of a bastide in France’s Landes department. The old square Place Royale is picturesque on all four sides: a 12th-century fort-like church stands on one side and arcades forming galleries line rows of houses, which are mostly half-timbered. The village is full of buildings that date back to periods between the 14th and 18th centuries. Almost all of them have been masterfully restored. They are hidden among the countless alleys that form a grid leading to the square. Today, this historical square is a hub for encounters and conviviality, fostered by the presence of several restaurants and a parking ban here. Nearby, artists’ studios and a range of curiosities line medieval streets. For example, there is a Protestant church built in 1607 that has been turned into an exhibition centre. On the square, the house lies opposite the church. The dwelling is known as the most beautiful house in Labastide-d'Armagnac. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a loft that could be converted. It is nestled on the square’s north-east corner, so it has two entrances beneath its galleries: one leads in from the square Place Royale and the other leads in from a side street. The house faces south-east. It stands on the edge of the square, blending harmoniously into its architectural environment. The dwelling is crowned with a roof of monk-and-nun tiling on which a gabled dormer stands. The facade’s upper section, made of brick and lattice-patterned timber framing, rests upon a thick stone wall and solid beams and joists, which are supported by two stone pillars – part of a former gallery of shops. On the first floor, three segmental-arch windows with crosspieces stand behind wrought-iron guardrails. They are fitted with wooden shutters. At the back, on the north side, there is a small terrace on the first floor. Lastly, in line with the house, there are two small rooms in a section with an entrance from outside: a fitness room with a wine cellar and lavatory and a space with a recent oil boiler and its tank.
…$779,300270m²2bedrooms1bathroomland 961m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden L'Arbresle (69)
A former abbey deanery converted into dwellings in a medieval village, 30 minutes from Lyon. Saint-Martin abbey was built in the year 819 by Benedictine monks. It brought together different edifices on walled plots. They stood around a central church. Some buildings were designed for monastic activities, others for the monks’ everyday life. The buildings dedicated to religious activities were partly destroyed after 1797. Yet some vestiges of the complex remain today, including the so-called Teylan Deanery, where the dean lived. This house concerned the abbey’s organisation. The property has two entrances: one for vehicles via the main gate beside the old heart of the village and one for pedestrians from a footpath that leads to the market square. On the walled grounds covering 3,881m², there are two edifices linked via a barn. The three buildings, which are today renovated, stand between two grassy expanses dotted with trees. The main house has a rectangular shape. On its south side, you can see the remains of the former enclosing wall. The house leads out to its private garden and to the court that leads to the different buildings. The secondary house, which is also rectangular, is a self-contained dwelling. Like the main house, it also has a private garden. Stonework forms the elevations, most of which are golden, showcasing the window frames, some of which have insulating glazing. The roofs are covered with interlocking tiles.
…$1,054,000424m²9bedroomsland 3,881m²By Patrice Besse
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Manor Mortagne-au-Perche (61)
A restored manor house and Historical Monument, surrounded by a walled garden, nestled in the rolling landscape of the Orne department’s Perche region. Within walking distance from the village, halfway up a hillside and at the end of a small lane, the property, enclosed by tall walls, which are, in turn, cadenced by round towers, is accessible via an immense gate, topped with crenulations. As for its tall walls, they surround a large U-shaped interior garden, the latter of which, facing westward towards the surrounding countryside below its enclosure wall, has been meticulously landscaped and deftly blends together the differences in its sloping topography. Standing out thanks to its soaring tile gable roof, which is highlighted with a cornice, the manor is extended by a second, adjacent dwelling, while the other buildings, used as holiday accommodations, a caretaker’s cottage and various outbuildings, respectively, round out the edifices in the enclosure. Lastly, behind the dwelling and accessible via the walled garden, a two-hectare orchard overlooks the countryside.
…$1,874,900610m²9bedrooms5bathroomsland 2.3haBy Patrice Besse
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Contemporary house with pool and garden Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche (78)
In a private road on the edge of the Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche golf course, a 270 m² house facing southwest with an outdoor pool. At the end of a private co-ownership road, sheltered from view, lies the property with a walled garden, pool, and double garage. It includes four bedrooms — five possible. The house, approximately 305 m² on the ground — 270 m² according to the Carrez law — is organized into two wings at right angles, opening onto the garden. One, at a single level, is distinguished by three fully glazed facades. The other is raised over two levels. Once the gate is crossed, a pathway with wooden slats, in the spirit of the villas of Cap Ferret, leads to the entrance and establishes an elegant and natural atmosphere. The materials contribute to the character of the residence: wooden cladding reminiscent of coastal houses, bricks that add relief and color, and zinc roofs that highlight the contemporary design. An outbuilding houses a double garage, in front of which is a parking area for several vehicles.This description has been automatically translated from French.
…$1,670,800305m²4bedrooms4bathroomsland 1,966m²By Patrice Besse
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Mill Sable-sur-sarthe (72)
In the Sarthe valley, near Sablé, an old mill with water rights on nearly 1 hectare. From the village, a street and then a path descend toward the mill, bordered by its canal and the river, beyond which extend meadows surrounded by trees. While the establishment of the mill is very old, the current buildings date from the first half of the 19th century. An exclusive fishing right is attached to the property. The entrance is marked by a wooden gate painted white that opens onto a paved courtyard, with the living quarters on one side and, on the other, a garden and a swimming pool. A footbridge over the canal leads to the sluice gates. Renovated, the mill consists of two buildings.The main wing, square in shape, has two stories. The facades are coated in exposed stone and pierced with openings, some of which are semi-circular with brick frames. An open loggia to the west overlooks the courtyard and the river. The gabled roof of tiles is topped with two gable windows. Another wing, rectangular in shape, is built on a single level and is distinguished by its slate roof.This description has been automatically translated from French.
…$650,400300m²3bedrooms2bathroomsland 8,090m²By Patrice Besse
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Seaside house with garden Penvénan (22)
A dwelling with sea views and direct access to the beach, facing the Isle of Women, in Brittany. The property is accessible via a wide and open road, which leads to a small car park used by shore fishermen, hikers and Penvénan residents before continuing its trajectory towards the Dunes white sand beach, three minutes away by car. Nearby, the GR34 hiking trail winds its way along the coast, while the quiet neighbourhood in which the property is located alternates between main residences and second homes. Entirely surrounded by walls, the property is accessible via two entrances: a small white wooden gate as well as another larger gate, similar in style, which makes it possible to park several vehicles on the property. On the dwelling’s sea-facing side, a low wall, separating the property from a pebble beach, makes it possible to enjoy breath-taking maritime panoramas, while, on the dwelling’s street side, this low wall is extended by a hedge, which creates a natural setting that effectively shields the property from view. As for the dwelling, featuring two right-angle structures, it is topped with two perpendicular slate gable roofs and abuts a guesthouse. With its entrance hidden behind a cypress tree, the latter is arranged around a small entrance hall that provides access to two summer bedrooms with sea views, one on the ground floor and the other upstairs. Featuring two pairs of white wooden shutters, the dwelling is partially elevated and includes a basement garage in its lower section, while besides one plaster-coated wall, the exteriors, cadenced by several hanging dormers on either side, which add undeniable charm, are built out of pointed granite rubble stone with ashlar stone window/door surrounds.
…$1,341,100146m²3bedrooms1bathroomland 1,023m²By Patrice Besse
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Manor Poitiers (86)
A fully renovated, 18th-century manor house, 10 minutes from Poitiers, in 2-hectare grounds with a swimming pool. A small country road runs alongside the property and leads to its two entrances. The first is made up of an entrance porch with a wooden gate, while the second possesses a wrought-iron railing gate. After the first entrance, there are garages followed by a wing in front of which a patio has been installed. The main residence can be found at the end of this L-shaped building, enhanced by an ornamental garden. The façades of the main residence are rendered, with stone quoins as well as window and door frames, while the wing boasts exposed stonework. All the roofs are made up of half-round tiles, plus the entirety of the windows are double glazed. Between the house and the garages, a pond, into which a stream flows, was created in the 18th century. The garden extends to the rear and below the house, with a swimming pool at the same height as the main residence and second entrance.
…$1,568,700410m²7bedroomsland 2.2haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Tréjouls (82)
A group of buildings, including a dwelling, two small holiday cottages, barns and offices, constructed out of Quercy stone and surrounded by rolling countryside, between the Lot and Tarn-et-Garonne departments. Located on the side of a hill, the property features a little more than one hectare of land, creating a natural shoulder halfway up the slope and extending down the hillside. As for the dwelling, facing fully south and overlooking the valley, it provides unobstructed views of the Quercy hills, while, the whole complex, made up of several local limestone buildings, is gracefully arranged around a courtyard, a number of patios and meadows bordered by oaks and maples. With its simple and balanced silhouette, the dwelling is topped with a hipped roof, whereas two small holiday cottages and a group of stone outbuildings – a former stable that has now been turned into office space, as well as two open-air barns, including one with a wide covered patio, ideal for summer meals – round out this group of bucolic edifices. In addition, set back from the other buildings, a swimming pool inconspicuously hidden within the verdant vegetation not only blends in seamlessly with the rest of the garden, but is also immersed in peace and quiet. Meticulously cared for, while respecting its history, and designed as if to assimilate perfectly with Quercy’s topography and dazzling light, all of its original volumes, ancient materials and views have been preserved, while the natural colour of its stones, barrel tiles and pastel shutters dialogue with the surrounding vegetation in a delicate balancing act between architecture and nature.
…$538,200323m²5bedrooms1bathroomland 1.1haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Penne-d'Agenais (47)
A renovated limestone dwelling from the 19th century, its guesthouse and barn on 4.5-hectare grounds, perched up on a hill near Tournon-d’Agenais. In the peaceful valleys and hillsides of the Lot-et-Garonne department, the property includes an architectural ensemble that blends in harmoniously with the countryside, where each building was purposefully designed to complement the surrounding landscape. According to tradition, the farms in this region are located far apart from one another, at one time separated by fields, but this property only has one neighbour, practically invisible due to its placement to the north of the grounds behind a stone wall, while, from the house or the garden, located halfway up a hill, one’s gaze is immediately hypnotised by the unobstructed views of the preserved natural landscape: pastures, a few cows, and, further on, the hills of the Pays de Serre. Around the buildings, a cluster of tall trees provides a verdant counterpoint to the stone buildings’ architecture as well as a shady respite, while the dovecote, set back from the two-storey rectangular main dwelling and built out of local stone, represents an impressive element thanks to its balanced aesthetics. As for the barn, also built out of stone, it completes this bucolic tableau in keeping with the former farm’s overall functional and aesthetic feel. Accessible via two separate entrances, each one indicated by a finely crafted gate, which lead to a gravel drive bordered by expertly landscaped Mediterranean vegetation, the property’s grounds are arranged into gentle terraces, with both sunnier and more wooded areas, as well as views of the surrounding countryside, while, in places, low stone walls crop up here and there, subtle vestiges of its former agricultural past.
…$447,400215m²5bedrooms1bathroomland 4.6haBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Perigueux (24)
A noble Renaissance-era dwelling, its holiday cottage and outbuildings in a 2-hectare enclosed park overlooking the valley, within the Périgord Blanc region. Dating from the 15th, 16th and 18th centuries, the property stands on a hillside, protected by woodlands to the south and overlooking the valley to the north and west. The high north end walls of the main edifice, with sparse openings, the buttresses and the round tower of the current guest house testify to the fact that this was once a fortified castle. A tree-lined driveway leads from the entrance gate to the noble residence, while a track running alongside the tennis court meets the outbuildings and a swimming pool at the bottom of a slope. A barely visible lap pool is perfectly embedded in the park surrounding the complex. The residence is framed by two enclosed spaces, each offering a breathtaking view: the courtyard where the main entrance is located, a well topped by a pyramid-shaped roof, an outbuilding used as a garden shed, a hangar for vehicles, as well as a pool facing a low pilaster and dressed stone wall. All of these are accessed via a carriage gate, a pedestrian gate and a recently installed gate. On the other side of the residence, the lawned garden with bountiful flowers features a summer dining area under a covered patio.
…$1,098,900683m²10bedrooms4bathroomsland 2.1haBy Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Castillon-la-Bataille (33)
A medieval dwelling, listed as a Historical Monument, with a swimming pool and tennis court, near an 18-hole golf course and surrounded by 112 hectares, including 7 hectares of Protected Designation of Origin vineyards, near Saint-Emilion. Extending on from the Saint-Emilion plateau, the property is located in the heights of the Castillon-Côtes-de-Bordeaux appellation region, overlooking the Dordogne valley. Set back from the village, it takes advantage of its privileged position, which ensures great privacy as well as views of the valley’s remarkable environment and the surrounding vineyards and meadows. At the end of a village, the property is accessible via a private road bordered by vineyards, which then branches off into two lanes, providing access to the large wine storehouse off to one side, built during the Second French Empire, as well as, on the right, a small tenant farmer’s house, followed by several outbuildings, mostly grouped around an open courtyard, near a swimming pool and a tennis court. As for the property, it extends over more than 112 hectares of land, vineyards and forests, while vast landscaped grounds surround the medieval chateau. The latter’s partial inclusion on the list of historical monuments mentions the protection of the 14th-century dwelling, its four towers, entrance pavilion with its staircase turret, exteriors and rooftops of the other buildings that compose the edifice as well as those for the Second Empire wine storehouses, with the exclusion of the outbuildings to the west. Lastly, the contiguous vineyards guarantee great regularity for the estate’s wine production. Exclusively planted on clay-limestone hills, they benefit from natural drainage and excellent sunlight thanks to their mostly southwest exposure.
…$5,214,200800m²7bedroomsland 112haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Ligueil (37)
A renovated village house with authentic charm, a guesthouse and a tree-dotted garden full of flowers, nestled in the south of France’s Touraine province. The property’s two houses share a courtyard and garden on a walled plot that covers around 1,100m². From a village road that runs alongside the main house, a low wooden gate leads onto a drive that takes you to a courtyard between the two dwellings. From a village square, a second gate, which is tall, made of wrought iron and framed between tuffeau stone pillars, leads onto a gravelled driveway that takes you into the garden. The different buildings are separate from one another. They face east and west. There is a main dwelling, a guesthouse and a small outbuilding. Exposed stonework forms the elevations, dressed tuffeau stone forms the window and door surrounds and flat tiles cover the roofs. Each building has a terrace. In front of the guesthouse, there is a lush lawn embellished with many clusters of flowering plants and dotted with trees.
…$459,700287m²5bedrooms1bathroomland 1,108m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Neufchâtel-Hardelot (62)
An 18th-century manor house and its outbuildings set in 4,000 m² of wooded grounds, just a few minutes from the beaches of the Opal Coast. A notable mention of this noble house can be found in the French Mérimée database. The manor is depicted on the 1813 land registry. A succession of different families have lived here right up to the present day. They have all endeavoured to preserve the authenticity of the manor house, which stands out for its extremely harmonious classical style. The entrance is through a white wooden gate revealing the main body of the dwelling, which stands proudly in the middle of the central lawn. The property is surrounded by greenery and the garden is laid out on either side of the residence and the outbuildings to the right of the main facade. Rectangular in plan and classical in style, the main two-storey building has a floor area of approx. 250 m² excluding the basement. The slate roof, with its broached eaves, features three hip dormers on each side and three brick chimney stacks. The main facade, rendered in white and punctuated by nine symmetrically arranged, small-paned windows with white shutters, creates a particularly harmonious appearance.
…$726,600295m²7bedrooms1bathroomland 4,065m²By Patrice Besse
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Property with pool and garden Tarascon (13)
An 18th-century country house of 600 m², with natural swimming pool, park and 19-hectare olive-growing estate, 15 minutes from Avignon TGV station. This is a bastide with a history that is not easily unveiled. Its Provence name, which means 'to preserve and respect', may well refer to a Masonic practice that existed in 18th-century lodges but has since disappeared. And it was precisely at this time that the bastide was built, probably on top of pre-existing medieval foundations. A symbol in the centre of the park's majestic wrought-iron entrance gate adds to the mystery: a hexagram, or 'Star of David', suggests that the estate may have belonged to a Jewish banker in the service of the Avignon papacy. However, there are no official records to support this hypothesis, which has become a local legend. It should be remembered that the hexagram is a decorative figure found in Christian, Hindu, Japanese and pre-Islamic Arab architectural symbolism; the six branches of the star representing the six days of work, with the seventh day, the day of rest, in the hollowed-out centre of the geometry. The residence, surrounded by around 4 hectares of wooded parklands, is situated at the south-east end of a 15-hectare olive grove, criss-crossed by chequered tracks. Some of the earth paths run alongside one of the high dykes protecting the property from the Rhone River, which provides the entire estate with a much-envied wealth of silt and a constant supply of water. The bastide, at once an aristocratic residence and a farmhouse, displays all the distinctive features of its particular architectural style. As the construction of such a complex always takes time, the square, affluent 18th-century buildings were extended at the beginning of the 19th century by two lower adjoining buildings. Not far away, a single-storey outbuilding dating from the late 19th century, used as a caretaker's lodge, ensures from a distance that the peace and quiet of the bastide, a true 'manor house' surrounded by its estate, is preserved.
…$4,317,100600m²10bedrooms9bathroomsland 19.5haBy Patrice Besse
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