castles for sale Valençay, France

Ref.4254 : French chateau for sale with lodges and estate of 71 acres. This beautiful château is hidden within its 71 acres (29ha) estate. A private location with good access to local amenities, Tours around 1h drive away and autoroute links to Paris and beyond. Late 19th C. chateau, constructed on the foundations of a manor that dates back to the 14th century. It is composed of a centrally positioned 3 storey chateau, flanked by two large common buildings. Ground floor: With ceiling heights over 3m the ground floor provides formal entrance hall, oak staircase, office/library, three spacious reception rooms and a professional kitchen with internal access to an independent 2 story apartment. The first floor is home to 8 bedrooms ranging from 11sqm to 48sqm with 6 bathrooms/shower rooms, 2 wc and a small kitchen. The second floor: Homes a studio apartment at one end and 6 bedrooms along the corridor with 6 bathrooms/shower rooms and a further 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on the upper floor of the tower. The two 2 storey outbuildings opposite the chateau have been refurbished and modernised and today provide in building 1: a computer/work room, storeroom, ground floor classroom, cloakrooms and wc, consecrated chapel, 1st floor seminar room. Building 2: 3 showers and 3 wc, 100 place classroom and 1st floor seminar room. In addition, there are further outbuildings that include: laundry and archives, boiler room and wood chip store, tractor hanger and workshop, covered parking, a circular “pigeonnier” to the south of the chateau, to the north the “Lake House” with licensed bar and lounges and accommodation above and a separate meeting room in another building. Permission was granted for the creation of a larger (150sqm) chapel style building on site and remains a possibility for creating this building The estate covers a total surface area of 73.5 acres (29.75 hectares) bordered by country lanes and roads on all sides. Approximately half of the land is a beautiful forest, with walks and paths within and providing the supply of wood required for heating the property for many years to come. The lake measuring in the order of 3 acres (1.2hectares) is located to the rear of the “lake house” (north of the chateau) with an island and home to 3 swans the day I visited. The 8x4m swimming pool is located to the rear of the chateau a short stroll across the chateau’s terrace. The formal entrance drive is gated and the driveway leading to the chateau passes through the park with lawn on either side and ornamental trees ending in front of the main chateau building. There is a separate “deliveries” entrance to the rear of the outbuildings that leads to a gravelled parking area in front of the garages and ample parking on site. Cabinet LE NAIL – Touraine - Loire Valley – M. Tony WELLS : +33 (0)2.43.98.20.20 Tony WELLS, Individual company, registered in the Special Register of Commercial Agents, under the number 444 692 156. We invite you to visit our website Cabinet Le Nail to browse our latest listings or learn more about this property.

A 19th-century chateau with outhouses, a chapel and a lake, nestled in 30 hectares of grounds in the south of France’s Touraine province. The seigneurial home that was built here on the ruins of a medieval mansion, of which no vestiges remain, was endlessly redesigned until it collapsed in 1860. In 1890, the decision was made to rebuild the edifice on the site. A renowned architect, Louis-Alfred Trolliet, a specialist in the reconstruction of chateaux, was entrusted with this task. He was responsible for the edifice you can see here today. Trolliet was nicknamed ‘the Viollet-le-Duc of the Berry province’ in a nod to the famous 19th-century French architect Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc who restored many medieval monuments. Trolliet won his spurs as a leading figure of the Troubadour style in French architecture with his restoration of the Château de Romefort in the town of Ciron. To rebuild the present property, he did not adopt the Troubadour style but rather the style of the Loire Valley chateaux that was also in vogue at the time. Trolliet opted for a long rectangular dwelling crowned with tall hipped roofs of slate tiles recalling the Château de Chenonceau and the Château d’Azay-le-Rideau. The grand edifice comes into view once you have gone through the entrance gate and made your way up the long central drive punctuated symmetrically with topiary box shrubs neatly clipped into cones. The château faces east and west. Its main section has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. The adjoining square tower has a third floor in its roof space. The symmetrical elevations are rendered and punctuated with large small-paned windows fitted with wooden louvred shutters that are painted sky blue. Gabled dormers punctuate the roof of the main section and that of the square tower. Beyond the château, the drive crosses dense woodland on this estate, which covers around 30 hectares and includes a 1.2-hectare lake. Trolliet also decided to build two large lodges as foreparts of the château exactly opposite it. These two buildings are rectangular. They have a ground floor and a first floor. A third lodge stands at a right angle to one of them. This third structure has an eclectic style and recalls a train station. On the south side, a circular dovecote with a cone roof of terracotta tiles adorns the grounds. On the east side, there is a heated swimming pool. Behind the outhouses, a secondary entrance leads to a gravelled car park. Lastly, on the north-west side, there is a private lake. In the middle of this lake there is a small tree-dotted island.

Located 2.5 hours from Paris, in the land of Talleyrand, a completely restored manor, its heated pool, and its garden. A poplar avenue leads to the manor, surrounded by meadows and woods. Dating from the 15th century, it features the characteristic silhouette of typical Berry dwellings. The building is two stories high, under a steep roof of flat tiles. On one side, a square tower with a four-pitched roof has been recently added, in keeping with the rest of the building. On the opposite corner, a round tower topped with a pepperpot roof is original. A veranda connects the main body to a lower return wing. The courtyard facade, coated, is pierced with small-paned cross windows. A bay window with angled glass precedes the central door. The entire property, currently operated as guest rooms, has been carefully restored. The pool is next to a pavilion with a living room and kitchen, as well as a summer dining room. The park of approximately 1.3 hectares is open to the surrounding countryside.This description has been automatically translated from French.

19th century castle with outbuildings, swimming pool and pond on 29ha 75a 17ca In the heart of Boischaut Nord, 20 minutes from Valençay, 19th century castle of approx. 930 m² on 3 levels includes 45 rooms of which 20 bedrooms, 11 shower rooms and 5 bathrooms. Numerous outbuildings covering approx. 1500 m²: an apartment, conference rooms, relaxation rooms, reception rooms, video recording room, bar with license 4, chapel, dovecote, greenhouse, agricultural buildings Central heating: chipped wood boiler The entire property extends over a park of 29ha 75a 17ca with terrace and swimming pool, orchard, pond, woods and meadows. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisks website: www.georisks.gouv.fr.