Castles for sale Charny, France

This very peaceful late 18th century chateau was progressively remodelled until the 20th century to comprise today a rectangular main building flanked by two Mansart-style pavilions. Featuring freestone facades, slate-tiled roofs and dormer windows, the main building offers about 500 sqm of living space including spacious panelled ground-floor living and reception rooms, 1st floor suites, and a top floor comprising a compact studio apartment, further bedrooms and a laundry room. The pavilions, one of which is fitted and self-contained, each offer about 150 sqm of living space. An extensive annex in the 6 hectares of wooded landscaped grounds includes former stables, a tack-room, a clock-tower, former staff apartments and magnificent vaulted cellars. Partially restored to create self-contained accommodation as well as showers and cloakrooms for the swimming pool set to the rear, this offers great further potential for conversion. With a tennis court.

A chateau with an old farm complex nestled in a refined country estate covering six hectares, an hour and a half from Paris. The fief was established in 1589 by the Harlay de Champvallon family, who won renown in the court of King Louis XIV of France. The chateau was renovated to a considerable extent later, in the eighteenth century, when it belonged to the Saint-Simon family. The estate covers around six hectares. It is tucked away in woods. A small river edges it. A little country road and a lane lined with lime trees leads up to the property’s gates. Once you have gone through the wrought-iron gates and crossed the balustrade bridge that straddles the moat, you reach a grassy courtyard. From this open space, you can admire the rectangular chateau flanked with two pavilions that are capped with mansard roofs. On the right, a complex of service outhouses, crowned with a roof lantern and clock, completes this collection of fine buildings. This built heritage is surrounded by a dry moat, gardens and woods of age-old trees. From the courtyard, a path lined with brick columns and hedges trimmed in perfectly straight lines leads to the outbuildings and, further on, to a secondary entrance gate.

This period property is located in the Yonne department 140 km from Paris, between 1.5 and 2 hours by car, 1h20 by train, and 1h30 from Orly Airport. Accessed by means of a long drive, it is set in about 2.4 hectares of walled grounds bordering a peaceful road to one side and the forest to the other. Set around two courtyards, the buildings dating from the 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century include a main house, a caretaker’s lodge, outbuildings, an immense barn, stables and a dovecote. The park is planted with remarkable trees and features a walled vegetable garden and a swimming pool. Renovation is required to exploit the full potential.