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An 18th-century dwelling and its outbuildings, including 8 accommodations for rent, surrounded by 58 hectares of grounds, farmland, woods and a pond, in the Seine-et-Marne department. The property, with more than 58 hectares and only partially enclosed by fencing, includes landscaped grounds, approximately 23 hectares of farmland rented out under two 9-year, renewable leases (annual rent of €2,880), as well as woods, pastures, a pond of nearly 3,000 m² and a natural spring with an overflow catchment area. The property’s two entrances – an electric gate with an entry code and a manual wrought-iron double-leaf gate – open on to two passable drives, which provide separate access to the estate’s many different buildings, including the main dwelling, a manor, a garage, a tower, a greenhouse as well as the accommodations for rent, comprised of flats and small cottages. As for the estate, it is split into two different sections: 1) the private quarters, accessible via the double-leaf gate, which includes the dwelling and its outbuildings: - the dovecote - the garage and the upstairs office-atelier - the manor, in need of a full restoration - the greenhouse - a workshop - a storage shed - a saddle room - a swimming pool - a fisherman’s cabin near the pond - a hunting lodge (metal cabin) - two horse shelters 2) the rental quarters, accessible via the second electric gate, includes 8 accommodations, each with their own patio or garden as well as two parking spots. With five triplexes, three with 63 m² and two with 53 m², an 80-m² flat, a one-bedroom flat of 40 m² (all floor areas approximate) and a small cottage, it is also possible to create two other dwellings, while a single-story house, of approximately 120 m², with an 800-m² garden, is occupied free of charge by the former caretaker, who is allowed to live out her remaining days there. It should be noted that, currently, the property’s two different sections communicate with one another, but could be completely separated if need be.

A 16th-century, three-storey house, exuding understated elegance, in the historical city centre of Orléans. The house was built in the 16th century on a street next to the Orléans Cathedral. Over the years, shops, taverns and neighbourhood boutiques have been transformed into dwellings, while the street on which the house stands was one of the first streets in Orléans to be paved and pedestrianised. Today, you can park a vehicle beneath the cathedral, less than 50 metres away. As for the rectangular dwelling, which stands on the corner and is topped with a slate gable roof, it has kept its original architecture and features four storeys over a vaulted cellar. Facing east and north, its understated and partially asymmetrical exteriors are covered in plaster with ashlar stone window/door surrounds and quoins, whereas an old wooden door and rectilinear windows, in an array of sizes, fitted with colourful stained glass or small panes, cadence the first three floors of the dwelling.

A 19th-century watermill with a reception hall and five hectares of meadows and woods, nestled inland in Brittany but only 30 minutes from the coast. The former watermill is a stone building that stands in the hollow of a small wooded valley. A stream flows beside it, giving structure to the grounds. You reach the property via a tarmacked country lane that slopes down to the valley. You enter the grounds across a little bridge suitable for motor vehicles. This bridge edged with fencing painted white. Just beyond it, there is a circular driveway for turning back around. First, an outbuilding comes into view. It stands out for its broad, arched, panelled double door, painted blue and set in an ashlar surround. A flight of front steps covered with terracotta tiles with a patina of time leads up to this entrance door, beside which there is an outdoor wall lamp. The main building has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. It is crowned with a slate roof with three hipped dormers. The elevations are built of rubble stone and have plain windows. A stream and traces of a former millrace bear witness to the edifice’s original purpose as a watermill. Around the buildings, there are lawns, shrubs and tall trees, including oaks, beeches and a sequoia. This area leads to meadows and woods. Large parking areas have been created outside too. With its remarkable reception hall, professional kitchen and lavatory, the property used to be rented out as an events venue. Its facilities are ready to be used for special events again or they could be converted, for example to increase the liveable floor area or to build an indoor swimming pool.

A manor house awaiting renovation with outbuildings, a swimming pool, a lake and almost seven hectares of tree-dotted grounds, nestled in France’s Vexin regional nature park, just north of Paris. The edifice stands on grounds that cover almost seven hectares. You reach the property via a lane lined with woods and partly edged with the property’s outer wall of exposed stonework. A gate leads onto a long, paved driveway, framed between lawns and box shrubs. A caretaker’s house and a garage stand beside this driveway. Straight ahead, there is the manor house, which was built in the 17th century. It gradually comes into view. The edifice has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. It stone facade is coated with pale rendering. Its roof of small, flat tiles was fully renovated a few years ago. On the other side of the building, beyond a terrace next to it, there is a vast area of parkland with a large swimming pool, another outhouse, a tennis court to be renovated, an orchard and a wood that surrounds a lake.

An 18th-century complex of three buildings, in a more than 760-m² tree-filled garden, in the old village of Marly-le-Roi. Sheltered from view, the old facades covered in Virginia creeper as well as the various volumes they include have a timeless character and possess a plethora of potential purposes. The main house boasts a double lounge that opens onto the garden, a kitchen, two bedrooms, an office, a walk-in wardrobe and a bathroom. On the garden level, a vast, vaulted basement room and a utility room / boiler room complete this edifice. The second house includes a living room with a kitchen, two bedrooms and two shower rooms with lavatories, making it ideal for receiving family or guests. The third building has a separate entrance, an office, a shower room with a lavatory, a large garage, plus two offices and a vast room awaiting conversion on the upper floor. It is a harmonious property that has many potential uses, though, to genuinely reveal its character and suit family, professional or rental projects, the interiors require renovation.

A meeting between modernist architecture and the Lorraine horizon, an old aerodrome club house listed as a historical monument, designed by Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé. As one approaches the aerodrome, at the heart of a 3,000 m² grassy plot, a building conceived by Le Corbusier in the 1950s comes into view. Formerly the club house of the aerodrome where it was built, it stands out from the traditional buildings in the region due to its façades, which blend a light-colored plaster masonry with large glazed joinery, highlighted by a bright red frame. Natural light floods the interior spaces, revealing the architectural lines and opening views onto clear perspectives of 180°. The building was co-signed by Le Corbusier – a major architect and urban planner of the modernist movement, whose work is based on a search for just proportions and clarity of volumes – and the Lorraine designer-blacksmith Jean Prouvé. The latter was noted for his work combining steel and aluminum with particular precision in assembly, which lends an elegant functionality to the construction in question. The roof, made up of prefabricated aluminum elements, consists of two shells back to back, resting on a central gutter; a silhouette that evokes two airplane wings ready to take off, giving the whole structure an architectural identity where technical precision engages with aeronautical imagination. The building underwent rehabilitation in the early 2010s, based on the original plans of Le Corbusier to restore its stylistic coherence. The building is listed as a historical monument for its façades, roofs, supporting structures, and chimneys.This description has been automatically translated from French.

A vast, 17th-century townhouse with a view of the medieval church, 1 hour from Paris, in the town centre of Chaumont-en-Vexin. This townhouse is among the largest historical residences in Chaumont and is located in the town centre, near to the town hall and at the foot of the hill on which the church is built. It was built in the second half of the 17th century and from its beginnings it was the residence of people of note, especially members of the clergy from the nearby church. The classically styled façade overlooking the street boasts eight openings spread over two storeys. There is also an attic level with hipped dormer windows in the building’s slate roof. The entrance to the property is via a carriage gate in the centre of the façade. This double-leaf, solid wooden door is topped by a barrel-arch and framed by two stone pilasters. The entrance porch leads to the house’s interior as well as to the garden and outbuildings. The façade overlooking the garden has the same number of openings as the other, with large, double-leaf windows equipped with hinged shutters on the ground floor and louvred shutters on the first floor. Next to the townhouse, another 19th-century building with a brick façade is also part of the property. It is a second and separate home but is connected with the main building. To the rear, there is an Italian garden laid out in terraces that climb up to the Saint Jean Baptiste church. The view looking up to this flamboyant Gothic monument is unobstructed.

A 1929 neo-Norman villa with a sea view and a garden covering almost 4,000m², nestled in the town of Sainte-Adresse on high ground beside the city of Le Havre, Normandy. The property lies on high ground in the town. The view here stretches several dozen kilometres south-west towards Caen and Normandy’s Côte fleurie coastline. From the street, a ramp leads to a parking area on one side of the villa with a garage and service entrance door. The villa was built in 1929 in line with the resort’s development by Parisian businessman Georges Dufayel. The elegant edifice has all the traits of the neo-Norman style of architecture: half-timbering, steep roofs with overhangs, complexity and dissymmetry in the forms, corbelling, bay windows, balconies and large picture windows that look out at the sea and garden. The interior, on the other hand, is more classical in design with a layout typical of an upper-middle-class dwelling. The spaces are organised and well-structured. The everyday spaces and the more private rooms are distinct. The garden extends mainly in front of the main entrance door, facing the sea, and on the opposite side too. Behind the villa, the hillside has been partially stone-laid and is dotted with specific clusters of plants. Steps lead down from the home to the street.

An imposing 900 m² house in an 8-hectare estate, interspersed with olive trees and vines in Provence, to the west of Toulon and 20 minutes from the shores of the Var department. Behind a wrought iron gate framed by stone pillars, a winding, shady cobbled driveway stretches almost 100 metres. It winds through vineyards and olive groves, then gently climbs the curves of the land to the house, which is hidden from view and blended in perfectly with the landscape. The estate covers more than 8 hectares of farmland. The house, right in the heart of this natural environment, has a total living area of around 900 m². Built in the mid-19th century, the original building faces north-south and spans around 300 m² over two storeys. Its stone façades and gable roof are typical of local rural architecture. An extension, which blends in coherently with the original building, was added around 15 years ago, perpendicularly, to the west. Facing east-west, it forms a T-shape with the old wing, and is two storeys high as well. Although designed as two independent entities, the two buildings could easily be connected to create a fluid interior flow. To the north-east, the paved driveway continues on to the various outbuildings: garages, farm buildings and storage areas. Below, on the south side, a vast 18 x 7 m swimming pool is lined with travertine decking and backed by a pool house. A little further away, to the west of the house, an equestrian structure comprising a few loose stalls and a lunge ring in need of renovation is a reminder of the estate's agricultural vocation.

A Provence country house sheltered from view, with a swimming pool, in grounds of around 1.5 hectares, near Brignoles and other Haut-Var villages. This property looms gradually into view at the end of a discrete lane. Visitors’ gazes initially fall upon the dry-stone walled terraces that provide the grounds with structure, but also by the presence of water. It flows from a plentiful spring, trickling over stones, running along the walls, following the paths and bringing the garden to life with a constant murmur. The two-storey country house, built between 1978 and 1982, is made up of interlocking sections, some of which are set back slightly. The yellow ochre rendered facades are dotted with ivy and punctuated windows fittted with light-coloured swing shutters. The gabled roof is made of barrel tiles. There is further living space in an annex set back from the main section, in which a veranda combines a summer kitchen and lounge, in the shade of the pines. Pine trees as well as Mediterranean species have been planted in the grounds, which alternate between open areas and shaded spaces. They also play host to a swimming pool.

A Belle Epoque villa, with grounds, a swimming pool, outbuildings and a view of the village perched on the hill, at the foot of a royal fortified town in the Lot-et-Garonne area. From the country road and just a few minutes from all essential amenities, a private, 300-metre-long drive forms a lengthy spiral around the property from the north, lined by woods and tall trees, up to the property’s gate, from where the eastern façade of the elegant, late-19th century residence looms into view between the trees and shrubs in the garden. After the entrance gate, the gravelled drive widens before the stoop, allowing visitors to disembark from their vehicles, before continuing to the garages several metres further on. The approximately 350-m² villa stands out thanks to its balanced proportions and immaculate architecture, that of a bourgeois residence, in which the façades are punctuated by regular rows of windows and discrete decorative elements, revealing a carefully thought-out construction. It is made up of a vast kitchen, a lounge, a dining room, six bedrooms and four shower rooms, as well as several service rooms. It pays witness to Belle Epoque period architecture, with its brick and stone, light-coloured rendered walls, inspired by spa town edifices. The large and perfectly aligned windows are fitted with wooden, louvred shutters painted in a warm brown hue that combines well with the decorative details in brick. The gable end is dotted with decorative oculi while the gabled roof is topped by finely crafted ridge cap, giving the building a silhouette that stands out in the Lot-et-Garonne landscape, in the midst of 2.5-hectare grounds boasting tall cedars, oak and ash trees as well as flowering shrubs, in an orderly and harmonious whole. To the south of the house, the stone and wooden outbuildings are made up of a garage, a barn and stables with a riding area. To the west, there is a large patio at the end of which stands a period ornamental balustrade, followed by the swimming pool and view up to the royal fortified village.

A former 15th century canon’s house and its French formal garden at the foot of Autun cathedral. The property is situated at the foot of the cathedral in the heart of the historic district of Autun, the upper town. A former canon's residence, built on thousand-year-old foundations, it seems to date mainly from the 15th century, with numerous subsequent alterations linked to the development of the town. Today, it is accessed via an archway in a discreet cul-de-sac, which opens onto a courtyard leading to the house.

An 18th century listed private mansion, wooded parkland, lodges and outbuildings, in the historic centre of a Burgundy town. The private mansion stands in a tree-lined square. A double carriage entrance opens onto a paved passageway covered with an antique carpet. The passageway leads to an inner courtyard, flanked by the two wings of the main dwelling and enclosed by an elegant listed wrought iron gate leading to the parkland. Planted with trees and flowers, it is criss-crossed by well-designed paths lined with stone benches and ancient statues, hidden in the lush vegetation. A stone well backs onto the property, which also boasts a heated swimming pool and two lodges with restored facades. Slightly set back, a timber-framed house and its greenhouse were once the caretaker's lodge.

An authentic 18th-century townhouse converted into a B&B and restaurant in the heart of the historic district of Semur-en-Auxois. Situated in the historic centre of Semur, opposite the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, the foundations of which date back to the 11th century, the residence dominates a cobbled square surrounded by timber-framed buildings, townhouses and numerous shops within walking distance. The townhouse has a classic, sober architectural style and faces north-east/south-west. Its front facade is harmoniously punctuated by fourteen windows arranged in seven bays. The slate mansard-style gambrel roof has two dormer windows, each crowned with an arched pediment featuring a high-relief male or female head. This is how those who may have been the residence's first inhabitants now watch over it. A double flight of approach stairs leads up to the main door. The sober doorway features a simple rusticated surround topped by an eyebrow lintel. This is the only entrance to the building on the street side.

A 17th-century stone residence, with a garden boasting panoramic views of the vines, in the Champagne vineyards, half an hour to the west of Reims. The residence is in the peace and quiet of the upper part of the village, far from the main road below that runs through the village, at the corner of a small street and the square on which a 12th-century Romanesque church stands. It stood against the walls of the feudal castle which has virtually disappeared today, though a watchtower and some remains of walls give it the impression of somewhat being a fortress. The entrance to the entirely walled, tree-lined and flowery garden is via a gate near to the gable end facing the street. There is an outbuilding at the bottom of the garden behind which there is a lawn where an old well stands. The residence is currently run as a holiday let that can be rented in its entirety for ten people or split into two, to welcome groups of six and four people, thanks to two separate entrances, from the square and from the garden.

A small 16th century private mansion, redesigned in the 18th century, with a walled garden, in the heart of the historic market town of Port-Sainte-Marie, in Lot-et-Garonne. A few areas of the medieval town remain, with their half-timbered houses and mullioned windows. Built along the main road that runs upstream along the Garonne, on the city's ancient ramparts, the town centre is carefully maintained by a variety of urban developments designed to unify the architectural heritage. The house is a small private mansion with three storeys on the street side to the north and four storeys on the courtyard side to the south. Opposite the main entrance, a wide terrace runs the full length of the façade, joined by two original, timber-framed walkways overlooking an enclosed, flower-filled garden. The east gallery has a Moroccan-style lounge set in a small flat, which has three large windows; the west gallery, which is entirely open to the outside, leads to a summer dining room. The garden is closed off by a garage that can be easily accessed from a side street. Finally, two passageways under the house lead to cellars and an underground passageway, which was recently closed up. The front façade, accessible from the main street and in dressed stone, was probably standardised in the 19th century. It is open, with its ten large windows and four small ones full of little panes, or its wooden shutters painted in light green that surround an ancient entrance door, also wooden. On the courtyard side, the rear façade features a large cross window on the first floor and pink brickwork on the east side, while the west side features pointed ashlar throughout. On the ground floor, the façade is rendered white. From the terrace, a stone staircase leads down to the garden, both the terrace and stairs have simple wrought-iron railings. The building is semi-detached on its west side, and opens onto a lane via another door with access to the cellars on the east side. All parts of the house are covered with single or double-sloped interlocking or canal tile roofs.

A more than 140-hectare hunting estate with an 18th-century Provence farmhouse, in the Alpes de Haute-Provence area. The estate can be reached via a discrete tarmacked track that winds through the greenery to the entrance gate. Beyond the gate, the grounds of the vast, entirely fenced, 138-hectare estate, fully preserved from any hustle and bustle, are divided into two separate parts. An old edifice made from local stone and built in the 18th century can only be seen from inside the estate, tucked away in the centre of the first part of the grounds. The typical Provence farmhouse stands in the middle of meadows overlooking the valley. It is set around a central courtyard and includes several independent homes. There is a summer kitchen that is dominated by a swimming pool surrounded by a covered patio and a summer lounge, boasting a panoramic view over the Alpine relief. A second entrance on the Luberon side of the property can be reached by carefully maintained tracks. They also lead to almost 3 hectares of truffle oak trees whose produce is farmed and sold, as well as two lakes. As for the outbuildings, a large edifice contains several garages, a workshop and storage space for agricultural equipment. A well-structured kennel area is made up of twenty boxes, all of which are lit and boast a water supply. The water supply for the estate, which has become a crucial issue in southern France, is guaranteed by a 105-metre-deep borehole fitted with a submersible pump in 2020 that fills a 75-m³ water reserve equipped with a UV treatment system. Several springs and a traditional Provence stone well further enable the property to be self-sufficient in terms of water. The estate is connected to the electricity as well as telephone networks and also boasts potential for production of photovoltaic solar energy.

A genuine manor house, surrounded by grounds of nearly three hectares, 2.5 hours from Paris, in the Nivernais region. A country road, lined with several traditional farms, traverses immense meadows populated with Charolaise beef cattle, before the property slowly starts to come into view: a British-inspired manor surrounded by grounds planted with ancient trees. A gravel area skirts the building and provides parking for several vehicles, while, not far off, an elongated outbuilding faces a well with its wheel. In addition, to the south, the grounds contain a swimming pool and its machine room, whereas several Medici vases mark the entrance to this impressive dwelling. Constructed entirely over a basement level, the three-storey manor’s exteriors feature a polychrome brick and stone composition, cadenced by many large-paned windows topped with stone lintels, while two balconies provide eye-catching architectural elements for its main façade: the first showcases the manor’s front door and is extended by a stone staircase, safeguarded by an ornate bannister with a scroll pattern, the motif of which is then repeated on the upper balcony’s guardrails. With brick and stone quoins and window/door surrounds, the dwelling also boasts a tower, highlighting the edifice’s verticality, which has preserved its brick quoins as well as its horizontal stringcourses indicating its different floors. As for the tower’s upper level, it is clad in regional bricks and punctuated by windows topped with small glazed fanlights, while the manor’s slate roof, hipped over the tower, but gabled everywhere else, has been completely redone and is punctuated by gable dormers with triangular pediments.

A fully renovated house with far-reaching views, nestled in a medieval village between eastern France’s Bresse and Jura regions. The village with its quaint alleys is perched upon a rocky hill. It is made up of medieval houses built for rich merchants or for ordinary use. The house, which dates back to the 14th century, lies at the top of the village. It faces a square where an age-old linden tree towers, between the village’s church and former chateau. A west-facing vista stretches far across the plain.

A 15th-century manor with reception rooms, 10 minutes from beaches on the Côte de Goëlo coast in northern Brittany. The property is nestled a few hundred metres from the local village in a bucolic backdrop. A solid grey gate of wrought iron leads into the grounds. It is framed between two granite pillars, one of which has an outdoor lamp fixed to it. On either side, a low wall and tall hedges give the property absolute privacy. The manor and its outhouses form a U shape. On the grounds, which cover almost one hectare, several spaces can be distinguished: there is an ornamental, tree-dotted garden embellished with flowers on the west side, a south-facing courtyard, and a car park on the east side. An annexe houses a covered swimming pool that looks out at the ornamental garden. And an events venue with a wooden floor adjoins an outhouse to form a large reception space. You enter the manor from a short driveway that leads from the wrought-iron gate. The edifice dates back to the 15th century, as a door surround upstairs and a spiral staircase indicate. The building has been redesigned several times over its long history. The year ‘1701’ is inscribed in the entrance door’s lintel. The dwelling is long and rectangular in shape. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. A gable slate roof crowns the house. The facade is made of pink rubble granite. Ashlar forms the window and door surrounds. There are many small-paned windows. The entrance door stands in a recess, beneath a rectangular window. A dormer with a triangular pediment gives character to the edifice’s west end. There is a secondary door beside a schist sundial that dates back to 1740. A cavity in the facade once formed an alcove for a dog. Opposite, there is a dome-covered well crowned with a granite cross. Pale gravel covers the courtyard. Wisteria grows up the facade.

A large architect-designed villa in a site overlooking La Seyne-sur-Mer, with a roof terrace and swimming pool, in 2,400 m² of tree-lined grounds. A tarmacked lane leads to the entrance of the property whose double-leaf solid metal gates decorated with wrought-iron arabesques are electrically powered. A stone-paved driveway leads up to the house’s porch to the left and a large garage straight ahead. The villa was built in 1967 and boasts living space of approximately 370 m². It is rectangular in shape and has three storeys that embrace the terraced lie of the land. The upper level is made up of vast roof terrace with more than 150 m² of space and views of the sea. The walls of the façades are rendered in white and are dotted with large aluminium windows as well as French windows, fitted with electric roller blinds and black wrought-iron grating for the openings on the garden level. A very large glass-paned veranda adorns the southern façade, while a triangular awning protects the entrance door. There is a gigantic lounge bathed in the light that flows through the veranda on the garden level, next to a kitchen and master bedroom with en suite facilities, while four other bedrooms and related rooms are located on the lower level, all opening onto patios that lead into the garden. The grounds are made up of several terraces planted with cork oak, pine, palm, olive and fig trees. The largest terraces play host to an outside dining space with an outside oven on one, a swimming pool with decking and pool-house on another and, lastly, a relaxation area, flower beds and a fishpond for the others.

A large renovated house dating back to 1930 with a garden and outbuildings in the Cap Brun district of Toulon, a 10-minute walk from a beach. The house and its garden are separated from the street by tall trees and a stone wall with two metal gates. The plot is rectangular. The house stands on the site’s northern edge, leaving a vast unobstructed outdoor space in front of its south-facing facade. A garage and an outdoor utility room lie in the north-west corner and a shady terrace adjoins the house’s east wall. The entrance door is also on this east side. The dwelling was built in the interwar period. It has two floors and a semibasement. A hipped roof crowns it, underlined with a triple-row génoise cornice. The pale walls are roughcast-rendered. Evenly spaced rectangular windows punctuate the walls – some casements, others sliding windows. They are fitted with folding shutters that are painted green. The south-facing facade stands out for its large bay-window alcove with arched windows. Two balconies with colonnaded balustrades adorn the facade. One of them crowns the bay-window alcove. A third one, which is larger, protrudes above the entrance on the east side, above a series of columns and arches.

A 12th century castle, remodelled in the 19th century, with 25 ha in the heart of the Loir Valley countryside, north of Tours. This estate is in a wild, wooded setting, with a view over the surrounding countryside. It is reached via two driveways, one reserved for visitors and the other for tradespeople. The first is a long avenue, with woods and meadows on either side. It is barred halfway along by gates, flanked by tall pillars, and is dotted with old streetlamps, lighting the way to the entrance courtyard in front of the castle, with the keep looking on. It precedes the old chapel, the top section of which is now converted into a bedroom, followed by a house that could be used as a caretaker’s cottage and, lastly, the castle. Driveways lead from the entrance courtyard to the rear where there are carparks and meadows, delimited by hedges. A pathway gives access to the south-facing, swimming pool area, surrounded by safety fencing and partially enclosed by old walls. A driveway goes down on the west side to the outbuildings, comprising an annexe house and its small outbuildings, a 350 m² building, with an area given over to physical well-being on the ground floor, a barn and its workshop, a building housing five horse loose boxes and a tack room, and another building that could take cars, although it is currently fitted with six horse loose boxes. Meadows beyond the outbuildings could accommodate horses. Woods border the property.

An18th-century manor house, on a former wine-growing estate of 12 hectares, with wine warehouses, outbuildings, grounds, a pond and woods, 60 kilometres from Tours. A small country road skirts the property’s tall stone walls, followed by its initial outbuildings before reaching its gate, which faces a wide tree-lined lane that extends between fields and farm tracks. At the property’s gate, a stone wall opens onto a wide courtyard, planted in the middle with two impressive Chinese mulberry trees, while, the manor, visible in the background, is flanked by its outbuildings on either side. Dating from the 18th century, the property was originally a wine-growing estate, while the two-storey manor, built in the Directoire style out of local stone, embodies traditional architecture, specific to the region. With an inhabitable floor area of approximately 435 m², the dwelling consists of a long central structure – the main façade of which is cadenced by doors and small-paned windows – flanked on either side by two adjacent lower extensions and topped with a slate roof, which is, in turn, crowned with zinc ornamental décor and finials. As for the back of the house, although different from the front, it still combines the elegance of the dwelling's symmetrical rectilinear windows and shed dormers with, in the middle, a unique triangular pediment, which adds a touch or originality to the whole. In addition, vaulted cellars extend under the entire building, while, to one side, a completely independent five-room caretaker’s cottage abuts a large courtyard, former stables and agricultural storage buildings, which are also accessible from the small country road via a second gate, providing an independent and more inconspicuous entrance. Moreover, the property also includes, on the other side of the front courtyard, another outbuilding, which is currently used as a holiday cottage with a capacity of 6 to 8 people. With a grass-covered, shady interior courtyard, this building has its own private entrance via a separate gate and faces a former wine warehouse, today reconverted into a reception hall with hardwood floors.

A large, elegant and comfortable house and its neighbouring building in need of restoration, in a beautiful dry-stone village in the upper Sèvre valley. The main house, built out of rubble limestone, overlooks, on its garden side, the Sèvre River from all four of its storeys, while its other façades look out on one of the most beautiful villages in the department with its medieval chateau. All the living spaces are located on the ground floor, which includes: a large living room, a small sitting room, a library or office and dining room, all decorated with nailed wide-plank hardwood floors, a variety of different fireplaces and ceilings with exposed beams or delicate stucco patterns, while the kitchen, left in its original state, has an antique square terracotta-tile floor. In the other building, a vast room, called 'the chapel', accessible via the small sitting room, could be used for galas, concerts or theatre performances. The first floor contains four bedrooms, each in a unique style – one of which has a powder room with lavatory – as well as a vast separate shower room with lavatory. On the second floor, under the insulated roof, a lounge space opens onto the staircase, while a last bedroom, bathed in sunlight, is located near the bathroom with lavatory. The rest of the floor is reserved for the attic space. As for the garden level, it includes a summer kitchen and furnace room (wood-pellet central heating), a workshop, a summer shower room with lavatory and a cellar. The house’s tile roof is in great condition as is the roofing for the outbuildings, while most of the windows are double-glazed. The garden is organised into six spaces, including the courtyard enclosed on three of its four sides by two barns and the deep, asymmetrical quadrilateral swimming pool. The four storeys of the house in need of restoration – which a small courtyard separates from the first – are accessed by a spiral staircase, which is undoubtedly older than the date displayed above the building’s arched front door: 1724. Although some of its window frames have been changed recently and the shutters are new, there are eight rooms in total that need to be refurbished, in addition to three cellars and two attic spaces. An interior garden, in which a palm tree provides a Mediterranean touch, opens onto a patio under which, thanks to the slope of the street that descends towards the bridge over the river, a garage was created.