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Property with pool and garden Grosseto (Italy)
Between Manciano and Argentario, a 420m² Tuscan residence facing the coast. Manciano, with open views facing the sea. On clear days, Montecristo stands out on the horizon. The house covers 420 square metres, spread over three levels, restored with restraint. The ground floor opens widely onto the infinity pool, which captures the landscape; the upper floor features five bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, while the basement houses the technical areas. What truly matters here is the far-reaching view toward the coast and the shifting light that moves across the hills from morning to evening. The garden follows the natural slope without unnecessary alteration, and the vegetable garden has been laid out separately. The renovation preserved the original beams and terracotta tiles wherever they were still sound. Argentario lies twenty minutes away, with Capalbio and Orbetello within the same distance. No immediate neighbours. Silence prevails; the sea closes the horizon.
…$1,794,100420m²6bedrooms5bathroomsBy Patrice Besse
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Seaside house with garden and terrace La Baule-Escoublac (44)
A 19th-century seaside villa, facing the ocean, on the wild and untamed coast of Le Croisic's peninsula. Along the coastal road, a picket gate, framed by two granite pillars, opens on to a breath-taking view of the villa with the ocean in the background. Behind the gravel courtyard, large enough to park several vehicles, the dwelling stands in the middle of the property, surrounded by the garden and the sea. Near the gate is an inhabitable two-storey outbuilding, while the villa itself was built over two separate periods: its western section dates back to the middle of the 19th century and includes two floors, one of which is under the eaves, while later on, around 1900, the building was flanked to the east by a slightly larger, but considerably taller, extension with three storeys, including one under the eaves. Built out of rubble stone and covered in light-colour plaster, the villa’s corners are highlighted by toothed ashlar stone quoins, while its symmetrical windows are also framed by ashlar stone and topped with chiselled granite lintels. Topped with a gently sloping hipped roof over the initial construction, which is cadenced on either side by two gable dormer windows, whose wooden structures, decorated with understated mouldings, are painted white, its newer and larger section, crowned with a steeper hipped roof, features roof finials and dormer windows with granite triangular pediments on three of its four sides. These stone dormers, larger in size, not only highlight the extension’s verticality, but give it the look of a tower as well, which emphasises its role as an architectural centrepiece within the villa’s overall composition.
…$3,307,900279m²7bedrooms1bathroomland 3,628m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden Guibray - Falaise (14)
A large townhouse to be renovated, from the 16th and 17th centuries, with outhouses divided into apartments, nestled in the town of Falaise in Normandy’s Calvados department. The property stands on a calm street. The old edifice was doubtless an important home at the time of the Catholic League of France – a major participant in the French Wars of Religion. As early as in the 14th century, this part of the town was home to the burghers of Guibray – a district of Falaise. Their land initially belonged to the abbots of the local Abbey of Saint John. Fairs were held here and there were many inns in this district too. The house was probably one of those inns. It is set back from a small square that still bears the name of one of the members of the Catholic League of France in Falaise, from the time of the French Wars of Religion. Nicknamed the Hôtel du Grand Coq, the edifice was later the home of a wealthy parliamentarian. It lies near Notre-Dame de Guibray church and is tucked away on a well-preserved historical street, a short stroll from specialist food shops and amenities. On the street side, the noble edifice has an appearance that is typical of the 16th and 17th centuries. The structure is more wide than tall and is made of Caen stone. On the court side, the building is made up of three dwellings that form a square courtyard, half of which was later linked to the initial dwelling. The edifice’s rear elevation bears witness to the redesigns that have taken place over the course of the centuries: there are corbels, roof slopes and the remains of a tower that was reduced in height and which dates back to at least the 16th century. On the left, a stone elevation is coated with rendering in the modern part. Beyond it, there is a small outhouse with a slate roof and two small-paned windows. Lastly, with its back to the street and leading out through the rear elevation of the main dwelling, there is a former forge that has been converted into a dwelling. It has seven windows. From the court, steps lead to the back of the plot. The property’s walls enclose the whole plot. In the central court, low walls demarcate different small gardens. To the right of main section, on the court side, there is a timber gallery that connects to the different apartments on the first floor.
…$426,100501m²7bedroomsland 948m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Nointel (95)
A grand house with a 345m² floor area, annexes, a vegetable patch and over one hectare of tree-dotted grounds, nestled in a village in the River Oise valley just north of Paris. The grand edifice is a token of a rich past. It is a large building with a long story, which began over a century ago. In a small residential area of the charming village, you make your way alongside the property’s enclosing wall before discovering its buildings. An electric gate takes you onto a gravel drive that leads up to the main house, then to outbuildings on one side and to the grounds and vegetable patch on the other. The central edifice’s architecture and the layout of its main rooms bear witness to a style that is typical of the late 19th century: French classicism. The room sizes, windows and stone surrounds give the house balance and majesty, as do the splendid grounds that cover over a hectare and include age-old trees, clusters of plants, hedges, vast lawns, paths, a vegetable patch, and an old ornamental pond.
…$1,581,100345m²7bedrooms1bathroomland 1haBy Patrice Besse
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House Viviers (07)
A 12th-century medieval residence, listed as a historical monument, in the former capital of the old Vivarais province, on the banks of the River Rhône. Until the French Revolution, the property was the residence of rich owners, before accommodating the town hall for two centuries until 1947, when it was sold to private owners. The house underwent various alterations and restorations as the years passed by, particularly in 1563, 1855 and 1856. Today it has a rectangular layout made up of two parts linked by a central, stone, spiral staircase leading to the three upper floors that make up the edifice. The western façade, which overlooks the square, was transformed in the 17th century. This narrow section with two vertical rows of openings is the ‘public’ part of the house, facing the square. There are windows on each of its four levels. The façade is crowned by a moulded cornice and a stone balustrade behind which the roof is hidden. The southern façade is the house’s longest. It looks onto the street called Rue du Château leading to the episcopal district. A third of the wall has no windows and in the centre, the entrance door with a basket-handle arch is framed by moulded splaying. Directly above it, there are four windows with moulded frames dating from the Middle Ages, through which the spiral staircase is bathed in light. On the right-hand side of the façade, the windows with mostly moulded frames, above two bayonet-shaped drip stones following the slope of Rue du Château, allow the living rooms to be flooded with light. The eastern half of the façade still has traces of older openings. On the second floor, there is still a gemelled window whose central column is adorned with chevron fluting and whose chapters are carved with stylised acanthus leaves. Other Romanesque origin openings are still visible. Lastly, since the northern and eastern façades are secondary elevations, they have much less openings. A complete architectural study has been carried out (seen attachment in annex).
…$280,300780m²5bedroomsland 195m²By Patrice Besse
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House with pool and garden Saint-Georges-en-Auge (14)
A sumptuous house from the late 19th century with lush grounds, nestled 30 minutes from the English Channel in Normandy’s Calvados department. The property is just a stone’s throw from a 13th-century Gothic church. The road is lined with picturesque timer-framed dwellings and little farmhouses. A thuja hedge grows along a low brick wall with iron railings. At the right-hand end of it, a gate leads onto a shady driveway. From there, the drive lined with tall trees runs west, towards the house. The sumptuous dwelling was built at very end of the 19th century. It is an elegant home set in splendid grounds. Before, the building was known as a chateau, as were many houses built by the upper-middle classes in the period just before the First World War. Its elevations are rendered with a cream-coloured coating of local sand. The architectural embellishments are classical with stone capitals, garlands, exposed quoins and window surrounds that stand out in a pure white tone. The facade is more ornate than the garden-facing elevation. The house has a raised ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. A flight of front steps, edged with wrought-iron balustrades, leads up to the main entrance door. The facade has four windows on the ground floor – two on either side of the entrance door – and six windows on the first floor. And along the second floor, in the roof space, there are five elegant dormers. The rear elevation has two sets of ground-floor French windows that lead out to a large terrace, which you reach via a double set of steps. There are three other tall windows in the rear elevation on the ground floor and, above them, five windows on each upper floor. The house’s hipped mansard roof has slate tiles and is crowned with finials. Two imposing chimney stacks – one at each end – rise up from it. At the front, a gravelled drive marks the paths for walking and driving. Around this driveway, lush lawns draw your gaze to beautiful views of the grounds. The grounds form an English-style garden with majestic age-old trees dotted around the grand edifice. By the house’s entrance, neat yew hedges underline the ground-floor windows. At the back, there is a swimming pool. It lies parallel to the rear elevation. From a patio above the terrace, steps lead down to a paved poolside area that surrounds the swimming pool. Three palm trees tower around it. A gravelled path separates two extensive lawns that stretch to the edges of the property. Tall trees tower around the sides of the vast plot. There is an old greenhouse on the grounds too, as well as an outbuilding with a 150m² floor area. This outbuilding needs to be renovated. Beyond, there is a bucolic backdrop and the River Dives, which flows gently.
…$852,200400m²7bedrooms4bathroomsland 1.4haBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Bar-sur-Aube (10)
A chateau, a chapel and vast outbuildings on 17 ha of predominantly wooded land in the Champagne region. Not all the impressive buildings composing this property can be glimpsed through the monumental, wrought iron gates. First comes an admirable chapel, standing like a candle whose glow would bless the serenity of the premises. Next comes the chateau, a vast white building standing amidst the grasslands that conceal seven constructions, including a Cistercian barn.
…$885,800917m²12bedroomsland 17.1haBy Patrice Besse
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Mill Evreux (27)
A former mill, transformed into a family home, with outbuildings, a mill run and an enclosed, landscaped garden, 70 minutes from Paris, in Normandy. Surrounded by a garden of approximately 7,000 m², overlooking the river, the property is largely enclosed by stone walls or solid fencing atop low walls, cadenced by pillars, as well as dense vegetation and its mill run, off to one side. Accessible via a small local road, which traverses a river, a wide wrought-iron gate gives on to a gravel lane, which communicates with the property’s different buildings, such as a cottage, of approximately 60 m², with half-timbered walls and a flat tile gable roof, located near the property’s entrance. In addition, a perpendicular wing contains three garages, one of which is a lock-up, whereas the main dwelling stands a little further on. With approximately 500 m², eight bedrooms and three bathrooms, the central structure, topped with a slate gable roof, boasts six storeys, including a basement level, while festooned in impressive Virginia creeper, its brick exterior, to the southeast, is cadenced by three low-arched windows on each floor, which are, in turn, safeguarded by white shutters and openwork wrought-iron guardrails. With two wings, which extend the building on either side, the first, with two storeys, was built out of burrstone and topped with a Mansard roof, whereas, the second, with three storeys, including one under the eaves, curves slightly forward. As for the mill’s northwest exterior, it reveals its monumental foundations, which are rooted in the clear, flowing water, while two more outbuildings and a greenhouse, located at the end of the drive and behind the main dwelling, are accessible via one of the property’s many wooden bridges. Lastly, attached to the central structure, above the water, an original extension, containing the mill’s machinery, is crowned with immense terraces accessible from the dwelling’s interior, whereas the property’s lush garden extends to the other side of the road, where a sluice gate system and a gazebo can be found on two small islands.
…$1,289,500500m²10bedroomsland 7,195m²By Patrice Besse
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Apartment with terrace Parc Monceau - Paris 8ᵗʰ (75)
A 134-m² apartment that is not overlooked, with a balcony and two bedrooms, opposite Parc Monceau on Avenue Vélasquez in Paris' 8th arrondissement. The apartment is situated in a six-storey ashlar-built edifice with a live-in building superintendent. It can be reached by the main elevator and the landing on which it is located possesses two apartments. The property occupies approximately 134 m² and is made up of an entrance boasting cupboard space and a lavatory with a hand-washbasin. The double living room is generously bathed in light through three double-leaf French windows that open onto a balcony overlooking the park’s vegetation. A separate fitted kitchen is followed by a storeroom. A cupboard-lined corridor leads to two bedrooms boasting storage units, one of which has an en suite bathroom, while the other has an en suite shower room, with lavatories in both. There is also a utility room. All the rooms boast light-coloured oakwood stripped flooring and the windows are fitted with electric roller shutters. The apartment also possesses a service entrance with a specific elevator and there is a collective central heating system throughout the building. The property also includes a 25 to 30-m² cellar and a parking space in the basement.
…$2,792,100134m²2bedrooms1bathroomBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Blois (41)
A château and outbuildings with potential for 50 bedrooms, in the heart of the châteaux of the Loire Valley, 2 hours from Paris. Close to the surrounding walls, the property begins with its imposing 17th and 18th century château, which is extended by a 16th century wing with a chapel attached to it. The outbuildings, grouped around a vast shaded courtyard, consist of a large number of buildings which were either renovated or rebuilt in 1968. From the château, the view stretches first down into the grounds and then, beyond the surrounding wall, to the River Loire. To the side of the château, a vast grassy area extends into the woods, towards the ancient castle mound. There is a vast vegetable garden below. The grounds cover a total of 17 hectares.
…$2,915,5001,000m²6bedroomsland 16.3haBy Patrice Besse
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Mill Lesneven (29)
A 19th-century watermill to be restored, nestled 15 minutes from beaches in Brittany. A lane snakes through the grounds. Next, a drive leads down to the house and outbuildings. The land is widely wooded and enclosed with dense vegetation with clusters of hydrangeas that display a range of colours. The main building is a former watermill, built in an L shape. It has a garden-level floor, a ground floor and a first floor. The dwelling is a made of rubble granite and crowned with a slate roof with dormers at the front and roof windows at the back. A stone terrace edges the ground floor and leads into the reception rooms. The garden-level floor leads out through the back to the outbuildings, which you reach via granite steps. On the other side, a stream flows through the property.
…$437,300250m²5bedrooms2bathroomsland 1.2haBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Montauban (82)
An elegant manor renovated in 1912, in grounds with several-hundred-year-old trees and a swimming pool, 50 minutes from Toulouse and close to Montauban. A quiet country lane leads to the main entrance to the estate, marked by a venerable, several hundred-year-old umbrella pine tree. Two ashlar pillars crowned by pyramid-shaped capitals topped with spheres stand either side of wide, grey, double-leaf, metal gates topped by railings. Once though the gate, visitors’ gazes are drawn by two fenced meadows, dotted with cedars and oaks, while a hedge hides the spaces set aside for parking. Opposite the drive, a brick fountain babbles away in front of the main building in the property. The three-storey manor boasts living space of approximately 520 m² and its façades are made of pink brinks punctuated by white dressed stone or rendered stone. The roof made of interlocking tiles and formed by unique series of interlinking sections is in very good condition. The 18th-century former dowager’s manor was completely demolished and rebuilt in the Titanic era of the early 20th century under the supervision of a Dutch diplomat who became a benefactor of the village following the floods of 1930. He drew his inspiration from the modern Arts & Crafts movement that was fashionable in northern Europe at the time. He combined the architecture of noble aesthetics with the wealth of traditional craftsmanship know-how, as demonstrated by the sculpted panelling, oak flooring and staircases, moulded or coffered plasterwork on the ceilings, Italian marble fireplaces, white Quercy stone or stained-glass windows in each room. Away from the main stoop, a clearing houses a swimming pool with light-coloured stone decking, surrounded by shrubs, flower beds and small bushes of aromatic plants. The pool’s technical facilities are housed in a nearby building. A shaded terrace stands next to the swimming pool. An orchard made up of old fruit tree varieties stretches out below to the left. Lastly, a wood occupies the edges of the entirely fenced property.
…$1,342,200520m²8bedrooms1bathroomland 1.8haBy Patrice Besse
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Castle Vichy (03)
A 19th-century manor and its outbuildings on a 22-hectare estate, thirty minutes from the town of Vichy in the north of the Puy-de-Dôme department. Perched up on a hill, this rectangular three-storey building is topped with a flat tile roof and flanked by a round tower on one side and a rectangular-shaped wing on the other. With grounds extending over approximately 22 hectares, its upper floors provide panoramic views of the nearby hills and the Limagne plain in the distance, while, the chateau, abutting a wooded hillside, is surrounded by large meadows below. As for the property’s reception rooms, they are located on the other side of a courtyard, behind the chateau, as are a caretaker’s cottage and various other outbuildings.
…$953,1001,240m²8bedrooms3bathroomsland 22.4haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Sable-sur-sarthe (72)
A chateau from the late 17th century, listed as a Historical Monument, its outbuildings and equestrian facilities on 18 hectares of grounds, near Sablé, between the Sarthe, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire departments. Two drives lead to a carriage entrance topped with a pediment that opens onto a grand courtyard. On one side, is the chateau and, on the other, an immense outbuilding, both façades of which are punctuated by pruned yew trees, while a covered well is located in the centre. The current chateau corresponds to the former abbatial dwelling: this is where the Abbot resided, in the western wing of the abbey that once stood here. During the 18th century, the court was at Versailles and the buildings were spruced up and converted so they could be rented out, therefore providing the abbey with some revenue. With three storeys, including an attic level, the chateau is made out of plaster-coated stone and rubble stone. On the side facing the grounds, its slate hipped roof is cadenced by four bull’s-eye windows, while, on the side facing the courtyard, there are three attic dormer windows grouped together under a single pediment in addition to four other dormer windows. Both the chateau’s east and west exteriors are crowned with a pediment on their roofs, which is then repeated above the central entrance on each side. With window and door surrounds decorated with smooth rusticated stonework, the three doors on the chateau’s façade are topped with either curvilinear or triangular pediments, while its quoins, cornice and dormer windows are made out of ashlar stone. Inside, the chateau has conserved its original décor: cartouches, medallions, chimneybreasts, decorative window and door surrounds, wood panelling, marble and stone, while the size of the magnificent rooms as well as their floor-to-ceiling height add to the chateau’s overall grandeur. In addition to the topiary garden on the chateau’s eastern side, there is also a dovecote, orchard, vegetable garden, ornamental trees and a stream, which is straddled by an old bridge flanked by the columns of an ancient carriage entrance. All around, the grounds are made up of pastures, tall trees and a small wood, while equestrian facilities have been created to the west of the outbuilding, on the side facing the grounds. These include wooden paddocks, a riding ring and an area for the horses to rest and relax. The carriage entrance, the chateau’s exteriors as well as its entrance hall, vast living room, dining room and seven bedrooms are listed as national historical monuments as are the well and bridge, while the outbuilding’s exteriors and the dovecote are registered as regional historical monuments.
…$2,007,200800m²9bedroomsland 18.1haBy Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Centre - Tours (37)
A 19th-century townhouse with converted annexes in the centre of Tours, between courtyards and gardens. The three-storey edifice, one of which is in the attic space, has a basement level, dates back to 1850 and can be found in a one-way street. To the west, on the street side, there are 6 rectangular windows on the light-coloured brick facade adorned with decorative tuffeau stone features. On the first level, they frame an arched, double-leaf, wooden carriage door and a window with a triangular pediment supported by sculpted corbels. On the second storey, above the carriage gate, a corbelled balcony with wrought-iron balustrades and adorned with a denticulated and corbelled cornice grace the facade, below a slate roof. On the third level, the roof is punctuated by two dormers with inflected arches. On the garden side, the annexes boast facades with wooden facing and roofs made of zinc and slate. The interiors are bathed in light and boast light-coloured wood stripped flooring and white walls. To the rear, the house opens onto a courtyard adorned with foliage, the converted annexes and a small garden. A boiler room and two cellars can be found in the basement level.
…$1,771,700410m²7bedrooms1bathroomland 383m²By Patrice Besse
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House with garden and terrace Bordeaux (33)
An 18th-century manor house with 2.7-hectare grounds, between Bordeaux and the River Dordogne. This residence is located on the roadside of the thoroughfare running alongside the River Dordogne and is made up of a rectangular edifice flanked by two outbuildings. The main section, as well as most of the outbuildings, are constructed in ashlar topped by roofs made of traditional half-round tiles. The façade is punctuated with segmental arched windows framed by sober mouldings and is a perfect illustration of the 18th-century country house architecture in the area around Bordeaux, an era in which the owner Mr. Soubran most likely undertook partial reconstruction, leading to the residence being given its current name. It has preserved its impressive appearance in spite of some of the outbuildings being in ruins. Today, the house made of local stone has a ground floor made up of three reception rooms, a kitchen, an office and a variety of storage space. On the upper floor, there are four bedrooms as well as a reading area. The edifice stands in a vast, 2.7-hectare garden with a small wood in the middle.
…$643,600250m²4bedrooms1bathroomland 2.5haBy Patrice Besse
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Mill Thiviers (24)
A 17th-century mill, with water rights, on two hectares of grounds including one kilometre of riverbanks, nestled within the Green Périgord region of Dordogne. At the end of a tarmacked lane that winds its way up a gentle slope and through a forest of chestnut trees, the hamlet includes the miller’s house, a barn and a stately mill typical of the 17th century, built on a granite rock from the Jurassic period, and once under the purview of the fiefdom of Jaubert de Nanthiat. The site’s unspoilt and beautiful natural environment, perched on the banks of the Isle River, provides opportunities to observe otters, herons and kingfishers from it many patios, while, once past the property’s entrance and at the end of a parking area, the mill's large water wheel, four metres in diameter, and its locks leave a lasting impression. As for the grounds, of approximately 2 hectares and planted with many trees, it runs alongside private riverbanks for more than a kilometre, while the mill, with its beaches of golden sand, acts like a balcony over the river. Lastly, a garage and a wooden shed, appearing on the land registry and used for storage and as a painter’s studio, respectively, could easily be converted for other purposes.
…$370,000130m²1bedroom1bathroomland 1haBy Patrice Besse
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House with terrace Le Castellet (83)
A 19th-century house to be restored with a 300m² floor area and a sweeping view of the sea and vineyards, in the Provençal village of Le Castellet. The upper part of the house – the first floor and the ground floor with its terrace – offers a floor area of around 200m² and could be sold separately for €580,000. When you arrive from outside the village – and have seen its open-sided 17th-century washhouse and crossed its square Place des Remparts – you reach the lower part of the house and can enter its second lower level directly from the street. Another way to the house is to come from the Portalet archway – a former gateway in the village’s fortified enclosing wall – and to then follow the narrow streets over 80 metres to the dwelling’s entrance door in the heart of the village. There, you can step into the ground floor. The terraced house has a four-level south elevation, which is bright, imposing and adorned with two small cone-roofed towers on its large terrace. The whole edifice, which was built in the 18th or 19th century upon the village’s old ramparts, offers a floor area of 300m² and displays a certain aesthetic balance. Its north elevation has a ground floor and a first floor. It heralds a plainly styled yet generously sized townhouse. The building's roof of barrel tiles is typical of Provence. It is underlined with a double-row génoise cornice. On foot from the home, you can make the most of the village’s pedestrianised streets and nearby shops. Yet if need be, you have the possibility to park a vehicle at the foot of the south elevation. There is a car park for residents and the general public around 150 metres away.
…$825,300300m²11bedroomsland 155m²By Patrice Besse
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Mas Avignon (84)
An eighteenth-century Provençal house 15 minutes from Orange TGV station, in the historical county of Venaissin with 2.4 hectares of wooded grounds and a view of Mount Ventoux. This property was once part of a vast, plain, farming estate, of which it still has 2.4 ha of land. The constructions stand on the north-east side of its land on a knoll, circumvented by a meander of the Carpentras canal, marking the northern limit. The main entrance, leading to a courtyard, is provided by gates on the south-west side, facing the estate’s land. On the north-east side, a high wall, lined with unsquared surface limestone, encloses the courtyard; a little door in this perimeter wall makes it possible to reach an outstanding stand of oak trees, on the north slope, bordered by the canal. The main building is a traditional Provençal country house, constructed at the end of the 18th century, even the beginning of the 19th century, probably on the foundations of an earlier construction, notably visible in the enclosed courtyard courtesy of the vestiges of old blocked up windows. It spans two levels and faces southwards over the courtyard. It is symmetrically and harmoniously composed and topped with a triple overhanging cornice, forming the eaves. Its lime-rendered walls feature aligned openings, framed with painted surrounds, enhanced with red edging. The north-east corner of the country house features a wide, drop arch, carriage door, topped with a virtually square opening, indicating a probable reconstruction of the country house’s east gable or a vestige of an earlier construction. A square, single-storey pavilion, topped with a roof terrace, bears witness to an earlier building, possibly a 2-storey dovecote. Reached via steps on the west facade, it marks the southern limit of the country house. It is extended by a terraced area, supported by a dry-stone wall, containing a swimming pool that closes the courtyard. And lastly, the parklands extend over the top of the open area to the south of the courtyard. Planted with Mediterranean species, notably convoluted pine trees, they still include some decoratively trimmed boxwood and a masonry well, topped with a local limestone dome.
…$1,794,100440m²6bedrooms3bathroomsland 2.5haBy Patrice Besse
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House with terrace Arles (13)
An 18th-century patrician dwelling, conducive to a variety of interpretations, in the ancient Roman city of Arles, within the greater Provencal region. The small street, within immediate proximity to the ancient Roman arena and theatre, is located in the heart of Gallo-Roman Arles. Here, each street and each stone is marked by history, while successive generations and buildings have helped highlight its existing antique edifices. As for the Hauture hillside, situated in the city’s historical sector, it combines the monumental outlines of imperial Antiquity with the architectural beauty that later Provencal powers brought to this city, whereas this neighbourhood has been able to successfully preserve its residential charm despite, like in all Western cities, the town’s westward expansion. Thanks to a 19th-century local scholar, we now know that the property, enclosed by walls, was made up of two dwellings in 1735 before being sold by a squire from Avignon. Facing east-west, this three-storey ashlar stone dwelling features an inhabitable floor area of approximately 290 m² and was built above a basement of cellars, which was once used to ensure the dwelling’s overall sanitation. With rectangular, small-paned windows on its two lower floors, topped with arched entablatures and safeguarded by solid metal and wooden shutters, its burnished plaster-coated exteriors blend in seamlessly with the other buildings on the street, while its heavy wooden entrance, decorated with scrollwork, a low arched stone entablature and a typically Rococo-style cartouche, confirms the building’s Regency-Louis XV architectural origins. Lastly, the dwelling boasts a verdant concrete patio, of approximately 40 m² and accessible from the first floor, a garage, located below, similar in size and topped with a mezzanine, as well as a rear stone courtyard.
…$1,682,000290m²5bedrooms2bathroomsBy Patrice Besse
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