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Castle Castelnaud-la-Chapelle (24)
A chateau from the late 17th century, with breath-taking views, outbuildings and 38 hectares of wooded hills and pastures in the Périgord Noir region. The site, absolutely magnificent, is one of these numerous Périgord plateaus sandwiched within a complicated network of large and small valleys with abrupt edges and spectacular views, surrounded on all sides by a landscape practically devoid of all human occupation. Comparable to that of a horseshoe, with its curves corresponding to the property’s north and northwest slopes and the central part to the estate’s cultivated plateaus, the site’s topography culminates at an average of about 200 metres in altitude with an elevation gain of approximately 20 metres, guaranteeing awe-inspiring views of the surrounding woods, hills and meadows. Divided up in the 1970s, the property has, nevertheless, preserved 38 of its original 104 hectares. Remarkably conserved thanks to careful replanting, these spaces underscore this site’s singular value, which still succeeds in offering a meaningful testimony to the splendour of these great estates of yesteryear. Founded in 1571, as indicated in the archives, and passed down from the Lord of Roufflilhac to various bourgeois and local notables, the “noble dwelling”, more commonly known as “the chateau”, and its outbuildings were built during the late 17th century over the vestiges of a medieval dwelling destroyed during the French Wars of Religion. Although possessing the essential Périgord architectural characteristics from the late 17th century, it was reorganised in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it was acquired by the Pontou family, who would go on to keep the property in their possession for more than 100 years. Today, the property includes the chateau, the 'Old House', a former tenant farm now used as a guesthouse, a caretaker’s cottage and former stables partially converted into accommodations, the whole forming a kind of hamlet. In addition, a completely restored dovecote with a stone slate roof, a tennis court and an immense infinity swimming pool are scattered throughout the grounds, the water for which is supplied by the property’s own natural spring located below the main dwelling along with a washhouse and basin. The result? One of the most beautiful properties in Dordogne – the authenticity of which has been carefully conserved – providing breath-taking views of the surrounding Unesco Word Heritage-protected landscape.
…$2,708,400954m²10bedrooms2bathroomsland 38.8haBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Pontevedra (Spain)
In Pontevedra, a 17th-century stately palace with Galician roots and a garden of around 1.4 hectares.. A 17th-century patrician residence that epitomises noble Galician architecture, with its ashlar tower crowned with battlements and its courtyard planted with ivy and wisteria. Inside, the patinated wooden coffered ceilings interact with the fireplace adorned with carved coats of arms, the blue azulejos and the antique bookcases. The property, which once housed Alfonso XIII's Council of Ministers, still bears the imprint of the important political decisions that were taken here. Its location in the heart of Pontevedra means that it can be used in a variety of ways: as a prestigious residence, a cultural centre or a hotel. A rare opportunity to invest in a place where family history is intertwined with that of the country.
…$3,745,70016bedrooms7bathroomsland 1.5haBy Patrice Besse
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Contemporary house with pool and garden Winksele (Belgium)
30 minutes from the centre of Brussels, a country house, its grounds of approx. 6.5 ha and its swimming pool.. A residence with pure lines set in a vast natural setting of around 6.5 hectares, where silence is disturbed only by the rustle of the foliage. Brightness is the main asset of the main villa, whose large windows blur the boundary between the interior and the tree-lined exterior. The living room features period furniture and an antique clock that marks time in its own rhythm. Every detail contributes to the balance between contemporary sobriety and heritage touches. The presence of an annex house, tennis court and swimming pool allows for an active social life while preserving privacy. Ideally located between culture and nature, the property offers the rare privilege of tranquillity without sacrificing urban proximity.
…$1,723,000480m²6bedrooms4bathroomsland 5.8haBy Patrice Besse
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House Niort (79)
The sober chapel of the former Niort Carmelite convent, a haven of calm and serenity very close to the centre, overlooking the town . The chapel owes its proud appearance to its height - it seems to spring from the ground - and its pure dressed stonework. Projecting buttresses line the facade and punctuate the bays on the outside. The openings are round-headed, and a rose window crowns the portal facing the street. By using the Romanesque architectural style, the 19th century builders opted for sobriety, in keeping with the religious congregation for which they worked. The interior is striking for its sheer size, which seems to exceed a floor area of 352 m² and a height of 14 m at the crossing. The interior also exudes an immediate sense of peace of mind. The limestone slab-paved floor rises slightly towards the raised choir. Barrel vaults separate the three bays of the nave, once you have passed through a sort of narrow narthex under the gallery alongside the facade. The transept is short, with a semi-dome apse. The stained glass windows are still in place, most of them in good condition. The slate roof was redone after the storm of 1999, and the interior was thoroughly cleaned in 2005, resulting in a much brighter appearance.
…$253,600352m²land 661m²By Patrice Besse
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Private mansion with garden Saint-Gein (40)
A belle époque villa with nine hectares of grounds, a 13th-century chapel and many outhouses in south-west France, 20 minutes from the city of Mont-de-Marsan. The property is situated on the edge of the village, in parklands enclosed by low walls and dotted with a few trees. It comprises a number of buildings, including two main edifices: In the centre of the parklands, a Belle Époque residence, surrounded by a formerly gravelled esplanade, faces a high wrought iron entrance gate. 50 m to the south of the main residence, there is a 13th century chapel. There are also two distinct clusters of buildings, made up of numerous outhouses that formerly served agricultural purposes. The first, to the north, is long and comprises a flat, an orangery, a winery, a dovecote and garages, accessed via a second entrance to the street and its service gate. Around thirty metres further on, the second building, the so-called 'small farm', forms a double U shape. Finally, two other modest constructions are set between the main building and its annexes. The grounds of 9 hectares, in a single lot, are bounded to the south by a local road that forms an angle with a street running northwards along the property and through the village. Meadows and old, untamed woodlands complete the green expanse.
…$587,800630m²10bedrooms3bathroomsland 9haBy Patrice Besse
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House Bouvignes-sur-Meuse (Belgium)
A 12-hectare farm in Belgium’s Condroz region near the Franco-Belgian border. This 12-hectare farm of unbroken land free of leases is tucked away in absolute calm in the River Meuse valley in Belgium’s Condroz region. The main building is currently used to manage an orchard and is used for business purposes. It is an imposing, well-maintained building. It has an apartment, rooms for technical installations, a business space and three large storerooms. Its total floor area is around 800m². The property offers clear views of the countryside and the surrounding land dotted with apple trees, pear trees and plum trees. Fruit is given pride of place here. There are all the ingredients for you to continue this business, just a stone’s throw from the Franco-Belgian border and a renowned historical town.
…$1,383,000237m²land 12.3haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden Baud (56)
A traditional country house and a secondary dwelling on a calm 2,000m² plot of land in the countryside of France’s Morbihan department. A country lane used only by local residents leads up to the property, which stands at the edge of farmland. Beyond a solid gate, two 19th-century buildings come into view. They stand at a right angle to one another around a small court. Behind them, a garage and a workshop adjoin one of the houses. Gardens and clusters of trees make up the surrounding environment.
…$414,900135m²5bedroomsland 2,000m²By Patrice Besse
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Listed castle Angers (49)
A remarkable listed castle with its chapel, outbuildings and 70 hectares of grounds bordering a river in Anjou . All the buildings are grouped together in the centre of the undivided estate, at the end of a driveway that extends for almost 400 m under a canopy of bicentennial plane trees. It leads to a stone bridge across the moat and on to a gatehouse with four-pitched roof, marking the entrance to the fortress. You then have to pass through a carriage gate, once protected by a portcullis and a drawbridge, or through a small pedestrian gate on one side, to discover the castle's main courtyard, where the central lawn is adorned with sixteen box topiaries. At the back, the main section of the dwelling is flanked by a wing set at right angles. On the other side stands a chapel. To the south, there is a garden of almost 1 ha, criss-crossed by paths and planted with numerous fruit trees. It also includes a fishpond, which is thought to have once been a 'longue paume' (long tennis) ground. To the north, a former farmyard is bordered by outbuildings that originally served as a defensive enclosure. It has been converted into a garden with a central fountain. The complex is surrounded by a moat filled with water. The property is traversed by numerous tracks providing access to the woods, river and meadows. In a single lot, it is bordered on one of its four sides by a navigable river. The grounds comprise parkland, orchards and moats (4 ha), alleys (2.8 ha), a pond (0.9 ha), open meadows (48 ha) undergoing reforestation - 4,500 trees were planted in 2007, woodland (11.6 ha) including oak, pine and poplar trees, and tenanted farmland (3.7 ha). The castle and its surrounding buildings, the moat, the gardens and most of the surrounding avenues are all listed. The slate roofs either have two or four pitches or are pepperpot-shaped; the walls are of rendered or pointed rubble masonry; the facade and roof openings are mostly rectilinear, some with mullions, some are arched.
…$4,033,8001,680m²15bedroomsland 71.3haBy Patrice Besse
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Private mansion Autun (71)
An 18th century townhouse in the heart of Autun, Burgundy . Situated in one of Autun's streets lined with beautiful mansions, this townhouse stands out for its recently lime-rendered facade. Featuring a classical architectural style, with a facade overlooking the street, the dwelling comprises a ground floor, a first floor and an attic floor illuminated by stone dormer windows, with a wing set at right-angles closing off a courtyard surrounded by stone walls. The structure is built over two vaulted cellars and the roof is clad with recent small, flat tiles. The facade is enhanced by dressed stone stringcourses and surrounds, along with decorative lintels. A wide porch with two automated oak doors provides access to the courtyard and car parking spaces.
…$417,200390m²6bedroomsland 540m²By Patrice Besse
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Listed private mansion with garden Valognes (50)
An 18th century mansion house and its garden, both listed as French Historic monuments, in the so-called “Little Norman Versailles” on the Cotentin Peninsula. Administrative capital of the Cotentin Peninsula from the Middle-Ages through to the 18th century, Valognes is a royal town and an important legal centre. As of the reign of Louis XIV, the flourishing town saw the construction of a large number of mansion houses, of which about forty or so still exist today. The “Hôtel Dorléans” stands slightly set back off a square, on the corner of a street. On the side, a large gateway, decorated with protruding quoins, opens into a paved courtyard that borders the rear facade and a stairway tower. Two stairways provide access to a garden laid out on a higher level than the house. A double garage can be reached via an adjacent street.
…$1,031,500350m²4bedrooms1bathroomland 960m²By Patrice Besse
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Private mansion Tarascon (13)
A small eighteenth-century town house with a patio, nestled on a calm, elegant street in the heart of the old Provençal town of Tarascon. From the fifteenth century, the prosperity of Tarascon drew many families: aristocrats as much as merchants and upper middle classes. Clergymen also came. These newcomers built grand private houses: they were keen to leave their mark on the town. The town houses of Tarascon often display rich architectural embellishments in the style of Provençal Mannerism, which dominated in the seventeenth century. But some of these town houses were also plain and small. Since the Middle Ages, town houses have been defined as simply urban dwellings occupied by single owners, so their size does not really determine their category. It was mainly from the eighteenth century onwards that small town houses – those with a floor area of less than 300m² – were built along commercial streets within Tarascon itself, where they were sheltered from the cold mistral wind of winter and from the hot sun of summer. They were made for wealthy merchants rather than for nobility and their style differs to that of grand, sumptuous palaces. The bombings of the Second World War damaged Tarascon but left almost all these old town houses intact: these historical dwellings were not close to the town’s strategic rail line, nor to the bridge across the River Rhône. These homes were often built upon ruins from the Middle Ages or antiquity and they all adopted a similar layout. Moreover, they are all made of the same fine materials: old monk-and-nun tiling, large tiles of grey Barbentane stone, wrought-iron window railings and walls made of limestone from the quarries of Les Baux-de-Provence and Fontvieille. Furthermore, they often reused fragments of column shafts from antiquity. Indeed, reuse of materials from the old remains upon which they were built is a constant feature among them.
…$507,100280m²5bedrooms2bathroomsland 115m²By Patrice Besse
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Private mansion with garden Poitiers (86)
A small 18th-century chateau with an adjoining house and a 3,000m² garden, nestled in a town in France’s Vienne department that draws many visitors. Tall, protective walls separate the property from the road. Beyond the gate, you first enjoy a view of the garden and outbuildings. The chateau then comes into view with its classical facade with two wings and a central section set back. The walls are made of local stone and partly rendered. The adjoining house and courtyard lie at the back. You reach them via a small flight of steps.
…$1,031,500500m²6bedroomsland 3,420m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Ohey (Belgium)
An elegant farmhouse with its 42-ha estate in the area around Namur, in the Condroz region. The natural region of Condroz is a beautiful, rural and pastoral region, composed of lovely undulating landscapes. Known for its deep-rooted traditions and its gastronomy, it also features numerous monuments just waiting to be explored such as the Mosan-Baroque style Château-de-Modave. Not far from there, in a delightful village to the south of Namur, this large property extends over no less than 42 hectares of fields, meadows and woods. The estate is dominated by a large building, its elegant, brick facade spanning three stories. With its numerous openings, it is worthy of a country manor house. Laid out around the main courtyard and the wooded garden, this property further includes a large number of outbuildings, the most recent of which are still used as part of the estate’s farming activity. A captivating and promising site for a bed & breakfast activity or for a family home in a peaceful, timeless setting.
…$5,416,900490m²4bedrooms1bathroomland 58.1haBy Patrice Besse
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