HouseRennes (35)

Price :

$2,716,500

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Surface449 m²bedrooms6 bathrooms2 land1,326 m²

A 390-m² private mansion with 1,300 m² of grounds, in the middle of the Breton city of Rennes, near the Thabor gardens. From the street, a wrought-iron gate, flanked on either side by a caretaker’s cottage, opens onto a cobblestone courtyard where up to three vehicles can be parked.
A tall stone wall borders the property, while on the south side, the residence overlooks grounds of nearly 1,000 m².
The private mansion, built around 1830, was initially part of a larger housing estate, with more than 20 residences planned. However, it was never completed in full and resulted in the construction of only six private mansions.
Built out of rubble stone schist masonry masked by light-coloured plaster and topped with a hipped slate roof, the house has nearly 400 m² of inhabitable space distributed over a raised ground floor above a garden level as well as an upper floor and converted attic space. Its street-side façade displays five vertical rows of windows and its roof contains six skylights, while on the garden side, three slate shed dormer windows provide natural light for the top floor. Tall red brick chimneys topped with chimney pots are located on each gable end, while a third red brick chimney is located on a section of the roof ridge.
On the ground floor on the courtyard side and the first floor on the garden side, tall windows are topped with arched fanlights, as is the front door on the courtyard side, this time decorated with ironwork. Stringcourses, cornices and moulded window and door surrounds cadence the façade, while upstairs, the large-paned windows are safeguarded by wrought-iron guardrails.