listed castles for sale Low-Normandy, France

Wonderful chateau located on the outskirts of the town of Saint Lô, with a long paved driveway lined with chestnut trees and a wrought iron gate supported by two solid schist pillars. Nearby is a chapel and a 50 sqm outbuilding that serves as a garage and leads to a 100 sqm square tower. The 500 sqm chateau overlooks the Vire River. 1.5 ha park. The various buildings were constructed from schist rubble stone and covered with slate roofs. The ground floor Double wooden entrance door, stone-paved entrance hall, numerous small-paned windows protected by interior wooden shutters. A large reception room with a stone fireplace, with an office housed in the round tower. Large windows offer unobstructed views of the valley and the Vire River. A stone spiral staircase leads to the upper floors. Opposite the reception room is a bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a kitchen with a monumental fireplace featuring a curved lintel made of carved granite. Another living room with triple exposure is equipped with a stove. The floors are stone slabs, wide-plank parquet, old square terracotta tiles in the kitchen, or contemporary tiles in the living room. First floor The staircase leads to a spacious 59 sqm bedroom with a bathroom featuring high ceilings and small-paned wooden windows with interior shutters. A hallway leads to the four other bedrooms (ranging from 27 to 38 sqm) on this level and their bathrooms. All rooms have straight-plank parquet flooring, and some areas also feature square terracotta tiles. The second floor The attic level comprises three bedrooms with parquet flooring, ranging from 25 to 11 sqm, each with its own bathroom and cathedral ceiling. The cellars Accessible from the kitchen, a wide, straight stone staircase leads down to the cellars. Some rooms have been converted into a laundry room, boiler room, wine cellar, and toilets. The tower and outbuildings Comprising three levels, including an attic, it forms a tall square pavilion with a four-sided slate roof. An internal spiral staircase leads to three bedrooms ranging from 18 to 30 sqm. A fourth bedroom has been created on the first floor for people with reduced mobility. Another building, also made of schist rubble stone and covered with a slate roof, is used as a garage. On one side, a small extension is used for storage. The chapel Completely restored in 2000, it is now used as a concert and exhibition venue. The roof is made of slate with a bell tower. Inside, a fresco covers the plaster on the walls. The altar has been renovated, as has the white altarpiece. The grounds The park surrounding the chateau covers 1.5 hectares and includes a former tennis court, an orchard, and woods on the side of the valley. With its vast wooded park and outbuildings, the property is ideally located for visiting the center of Saint-Lô and the major tourist attractions of Normandy. Cadastral area: 1.52 hectares Main building area: 500 sqm Number of bedrooms: 10 Outbuilding area: 150 sqm, of which 100 sqm is converted A great opportunity for a tourist activity such as a hotel or bed and breakfast in a unique location steeped in history. A few kilometers from the D-Day beaches and historic sites of World War II. Sites listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments (ISMH). Caen is 30 minutes away, Granville 1 hour, and Paris 2.5 hours. Sale price of the property: €1,500,000 Seller's fees Energy rating: E Climate rating: C Estimated annual energy costs for standard use: between €1,650 and €2,240 per year. Average energy prices indexed for 2021, 2022, and 2023. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

Perched in the hills of the Vire Valley, with 22 hectares of land, a listed chateau from the 13th and 15th centuries. On the outskirts of the city, a long tarmac driveway lined with horse chestnut trees descends towards the property’s entrance. Gradually, the landscape becomes less and less urban and the lawns on either side of the road become more expansive. The road leads to a wrought-iron gate supported by two solid schist rubble columns, extended on either side by low walls topped with fencing. Nearby, a chapel stands on a hill. On one side, the driveway runs along the length of an outbuilding, which is used as a garage, before reaching a square tower. The chateau stands on a promontory, with, as its background, the woods, which blanket the flank of the small valley and fields that border the Vire River. The fortress was built along the edge of a cliff overhanging the river by about twenty metres. Impregnable to the north, it was protected to the south by walls, towers and a drawbridge, which were destroyed in the 19th century. Today, the edifice is composed of the vestiges of an imposing construction and a wing built at a right angle to the body of the main building. Constructed out of schist rubble stone, it was built over three levels, including the attic space. Hipped dormer windows punctuate the slate roof on the side facing the Vire River. To the south, the front entrance is framed by columns, which support a straight lintel and triangular pediment. A three-sided, slightly projecting, tower houses the interior spiral staircase. It is topped with a triangular dormer with an oval oculus. A second round tower with a pepperpot turret roof is attached to a corner of the building. The mullion and cross-window surrounds are in granite ashlar stone. On the exterior corner of the two main buildings, a square extension with a slate hipped roof was built over two stories.