HouseChateaudun (28)

A splendid nineteenth-century house in the town centre of Châteaudun with a secondary dwelling and a large workshop. You enter the house from the street. The property is entirely enclosed with walls. A small garden in the middle of the property links the main house to an old workshop. At the end of this inner garden lies a small house that can be rented out.
This fine property is one of the town’s most beautiful edifices.
The main entrance door stands in the house’s two-floor facade, which is capped with a fine mansard roof in which a top floor lies. Three bays are separated by brickwork and exposed stone quoins. Two cornices separate the different levels and underline their purposes: the reception rooms, then the bedrooms and finally the former service floor. The mansard roof features two large dormers with pediments – one on each of the two street-facing sides. The front one is flanked with two arched windows that give height to the whole structure. The facade is centred on the entrance: a large oak double door with mouldings. An arched fanlight crowns it. Two steps lead up to it. This entrance door is flanked with two tall casement windows with wooden louvred shutters. Above them, the other windows are similarly shaped and stand in line with them.
A protruding stone balcony runs along the first floor of the other street-facing side and underlines the presence of a master bedroom – an innovation in a century when bedrooms became places of comfort and privacy.