luxury farmhouses for sale Maine-et-Loire, France

A former winemaker’s house, with its courtyard, outbuildings and guesthouse, in the south of the Anjou region. From the village, a country road leads to the hamlet and provides access to the property’s gate. Entirely enclosed by low walls topped with fencing, the property is organised around an immense landscaped courtyard, which is surrounded by the following buildings: the main house with, adjacent to its southern end, a covered patio and its ancient winepress, small buildings meant for farm animals, former stables with an adjacent barn, a guesthouse, with its back to the courtyard, and an annexe dwelling. The main house is made up of a central building and a slightly lower extension, topped with a slate gable roof. With pointed rubble stone walls, the edifice has two storeys, including an attic level, while, for the most part, its windows face east onto the courtyard. With direct access from the road and its own outbuildings, the guesthouse’s main façade looks out onto its own hedge-enclosed garden with views of the surrounding countryside. On the property, all of the buildings’ structural works are in excellent condition and, for those that are used as accommodations, their finishings and fittings are as well. Lastly, two working wells are used to water the gardens.

A farmhouse with stables and outbuildings in 1 8 hectares of grounds, 40 minutes west of Angers. Surrounded by the meadows and hedgerows typical of the Anjou region, the property is made up of six separate buildings. The buildings are built from the typical slate rubble used in the region and rendered in ochre-coloured lime. The window frames are made out of local brick. Most of the roofs are slate, but some outbuildings are covered in sheet metal. The farmhouse is 25 m long and rectangular shaped with east/west facing facades. Its gable roof has two chimneys and four hip dormers on the front facade, one of which has a straight stone staircase leading up to it at the south-east corner of the building. A former pigsty is attached to the south gable, next to a small workshop. Long and rectangular too, it has small semi-circular openings in the upper part of the facades for ventilation and has a gable roof. At at right angle, to the north of the house, a former barn is currently under restoration. On the other side of the square courtyard there is a huge stable, flanked by a barn to the west. Meadows and paddocks for horses surround the building.

Between ANJOU and TOURAINE, 15 mins. of SAUMUR, in the heart of an important forest massif conducive to long horseback riding or hiking on rural paths, small character property with many outbuildings, with horse boxes, on 5000 m² (4,6 hectares possible) THE MAIN DWELLING: Living area of ​​65 m² excluding convertible attic of 56 m². South/West exposure Ground floor : Living room of 29 m² with open kitchen. ( chimney) Living room or bedroom 1 of 19 m². Bedroom 2 (terracotta floor). Adjoining shower room (W.C.). 1st floor: 2 convertible attics of 20 m² and 36 m². Miscellaneous: city water. Well. Heating by electric radiators. Autonomous sanitation. DEPENDENCIES : - in the extension of the dwelling house: barn of 35 m² (height of 6.27 m. under farm) Vast cellar of 53 m². - another building housing: 37 m² room with 15th century fireplace, tiled with terracotta. Sink. -5 horse boxes including 1 for brood mare. Attic of 70 m² (height 4.60 m.) accessible by an exterior stone staircase. - barn of about 165 m² (6.40 m. x 26 m.) -Stall and shed. THE LAND: approximately 5000 m² (possibility to buy 4,1 hectares of wood and meadow in addition) Divided into a courtyard closed by the buildings, pleasure garden around with old riding quarry. CONCLUSION: remarkable natural environment. Complete and charming built ensemble with many possibilities.