listed castles for sale France (page 4)

Remarkable 17th century, listed château, set in 53 hectares of land, on borders of Maine and Anjou with easy access via motorway and high-speed train. Elegant building featuring classical architecture, spanning nearly 750 sqm. Numerous decorative elements and period features: wooden floors, fireplaces, stone flooring, staircase with balustrades etc. Outbuildings including caretaker's house, restored in-line cottage, barn, workshop, garden pavilion and tennis court. Formal gardens plus 48 hectares of woodlands and lakes. Well-maintained, much-loved property - a very special place. Energy class: NA/NA.

Near Saint Emilion, three elegant property of the fifteenth century built on a land full of history. This three elegant house (ISMH), located in the middle of a vineyard, agricultural and forestry area of 112hectares offers an area of almost 800 m2 developed on 3 levels with thirty rooms overlooking a terrace offering an unlimited view of the surroundings. With three corner towers, one of which houses a chapel; it also has superb outbuildings attached, including a caretaker’s house, for an additional surface of more than 1000 m2. Around the castle, there is a park of just over 5 hectares that hosts a swimming pool and its pool house, a tennis court, an orchard and a vegetable garden. A little further, in a beautiful monument of the second empire of about 800m2, registered with the ISMH, is a perfectly designed and equipped cuvier with a capacity of 2900 hectolitres. Above, a large reception room can accommodate more than 150 people for weddings with its catering and sanitary facilities. This unusual area, will offer after rehabilitation, an exceptional potential for family in love with old stones, or provide the development of a tourist and/ or wine. It covers a total area of about 112 hectares, practically one-piece, including meadows and about 45 hectares of wood. A pretty vineyard of 25 hectares in AOC CÔTES DE CASTILLON with an average age of 30 years produces an excellent wine of this sought-after appellation; it is currently managed by a neighbouring farmer. Located in the heart of a protected rural environment, this property enjoys an exceptional location near Saint-Émilion.

This magnificent castle has been through historical periods from a powerful royal priory to a sumptuous princely residence. The 6000 sq m castle has large volumes that offer many project opportunities for which you can get State subsidiaries! It is marked by its historical past, the castle shelters a vast Romanesque church from the 12th Century and an abbatial palace from the 18th Century which earned it the name of "Petit Versailles du Languedoc". In 1998, a large part of the ensemble was listed as Historic Monuments. Its church is the largest Romanesque church in Languedoc with an impressive 43 m long vaulted vault, its apse, remodelled in the 16th Century, was converted into a wine cellar after the French Revolution. The estate currently has about 33 hectares of which: The Château and its park of 3 hectares closed walls, a building land of 4 hectares including an old cooperative cellar of nearly 2000 sqm, a vineyard of 16.5 hectares in operation, The land remaining consists of wood and Garrigue. The main body consists of an R + 3 and two wings, additional terraced gardens and many outbuildings. The castle has to be restored entirely and offers a tax exemption.

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.