Luxury real estate for sale Champtoceaux, France (page 9)

A cosy 18th-century house with an old farm complex and over a hectare of grounds near the River Erdre and Nantes, France. A white Norman-style fence runs alongside a quiet road on both sides of an electric gate: the property’s entrance. Beyond this gate lies a grassy court separated by walls and two pillars covered with Virginia creeper. This court forms a transitional area leading from the road to the buildings. It takes you into the main courtyard, which enclosed by the outbuildings, an old farm complex and the house. Around the sides and rear of the buildings, vast grounds extend, dotted with age-old trees. These extensive grounds cover more than a hectare. A bridle path runs around the edge of them, marking the boundary with the neighbouring property. The buildings and grounds once formed a farm complex belonging to a nearby chateau that towers on the bank of the River Erdre. The chateau’s historical estate was carved up: today’s property was born of this division. The main dwelling is rectangular with a central section extended on both sides with two wings in the same style. The central section is built of rubble stone rendered with a coating of Loire sand. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. The wings are single-storey sections. The windows in the facade are set in tuffeau-stone surrounds with segmental arch tops. They are arranged asymmetrically. Their timber frames recall old mullioned windows. The hipped slate roof has a dormer on each side. Two chimney stacks rise up from it. One of the wings houses a reception space and looks out at the lush grounds through broad picture windows. The other wing houses a space dedicated to the swimming pool. A complex of old farm buildings around the courtyard flanks the house on both sides. These structures are made of rubble schist and crowned with slate roofs. They form a comprehensive collection of buildings: a barn, garages, workshops, storerooms and open-sided shelters.

A splendid apartment with a floor area of 290m² in one of the most highly sought-after districts of Nantes, beside the city’s natural history museum. The building that houses the apartment stands on the square Place de la Monnaie, where the city’s natural history museum lies with its garden. The apartment is nestled on the second floor of an edifice that is listed as part of Nantes’s built heritage. This building is made of ashlar. It has a ground floor, a first floor, a second floor, a third floor and a top floor inside a slate roof. It extends along most of the road and has 17 bays. The ground floor houses art galleries behind tall arched windows. A continuous balcony upon stone corbels runs across the five central bays on the first and second floors. Pilasters punctuate these five central bays. All the street-facing windows are fitted with finely crafted wrought-iron guardrails. Those on the first and second floors stand beneath stone canopies. You enter the edifice from the street via a large carriage entrance: a double door that is painted green. This arched double door is glazed and crowned with a fanlight. The glazing is set behind finely crafted wrought-iron grates with foliage motifs. Both sections of the double door are adorned with a medallion: on one of them there is a woman and on the other one there is a man. This carriage door opens into a long hallway with a floor of small paving stones beneath a barrel-vaulted ceiling that is richly embellished with sculpted floral motifs. On one side, the hallway connects to a storeroom for pushchairs and bicycles. On the other side, it connects to a stairwell that leads upstairs. At the end, it takes you to a small courtyard. You reach the apartment via an old metal-cage lift or granite stairs that climb up around it with a wrought-iron handrail and walls with dado panelling painted grey. The landings have floors of small cement tiles laid in mosaics of geometric patterns. The edifice has two apartments per floor. The property has a spacious hallway, a large lounge with a floor area of around 60m², a 22m² dining room, a 16m² lounge, a 16m² kitchen, a 14m² linen and boiler room, and four bedrooms with floor areas that range from 13m² to 22m². The dwelling also includes three bathrooms fitted with baths or showers, as well as three lavatories. The apartment is fitted with many large storage spaces and bookshelves throughout. The property includes two cellars that each offer a floor area of around 5m². They lie in the basement. And the property also includes a loft space on the top floor. Lastly, two parking spaces inside a nearby commonhold building are part of the property too. These parking spaces are covered and secured.

An 18th century mansion on the edge of Nantes, set in 1 3 hectares of wooded, walled grounds. Set along a street linking the town centre to the ring road, the property is hidden in a large park of centuries-old trees, behind a high perimeter wall of coursed rubble masonry. Two brick and tuffeau masonry pillars topped by a bronze vase support a wide wrought iron gate, the only access to the property. Just beyond the entrance, a granite Breton cross keeps watch over the residence. Once through the gate, a tarmac driveway passes through a thicket and finally leads along a large lawn on one side to the house.

An 1850 residence, swimming pool and guest house set in 2 hectares of English-style grounds, in the inner suburbs of Nantes, south of the Loire. From a discreet lane, a cul-de-sac leads to a gate. A wide track winds partly under cover through woodland, skirting a small pond and then an English-style garden. It passes a swimming pool on one side and leads to the house, which is revealed from its southern angle. Formerly an 18th-century hunting lodge, the building was modified in the 1850s by its occupants at the time, the Lefebvre-Utile family, with the addition of two low wings, one of which is extended by a regular-shaped apse. Built of schist rubble on a granite base, the dwelling has a four-slope slate roof with dormer windows and tall rectangular brick and tufa chimney stacks. They are topped with ashlar battlements. The facades are covered in Loire sand rendering, and the quoins and modillions are in tufa stone. At the back, a courtyard planted with four striking plane trees leads to a former orangery converted into a guest house, as well as a group of outbuildings and garages. The property is walled and has two entrances leading to a street running alongside.

An elegant 19th century chateau set in 4 hectares of wooded, enclosed grounds with outbuildings and pond, 25 km south of Nantes. The estate extends over more than 4 hectares in a single lot, surrounded by fields and hedgerows. At the end of a local lane that also serves the hamlet, the 19th-century chateau comes into view amidst unspoilt countryside. The entrance to the edifice is preceded by a driveway bordered by horse chestnut trees which leads to a forecourt. Then two symmetrical wrought iron gates and a low wall topped with a Versailles-style grille demarcate the rectangular front courtyard, which is bordered on either side by the former outbuildings. The roughly 600 m² of stone buildings with tiled roofs include coach houses, a cattle shed, a wine storehouse and a wine press, testifying to the activities of the former castellany. Dating back to 1870 and enlarged in 1890, the chateau boasts a distinctive eclecticism, having retained the best of the various architectural styles emblematic of the 19th century. The residence is rectangular in plan with four bays; the entrance courtyard side faces south-west and the wooded parklands side north-east. The facades feature brick and tuffeau or Sireuil stone dressings and are topped by a slate roof. Metal ridges run along the top of the roof. The levels are separated by wide stringcourses and the windows are protected by stone balustrades. To the rear, the chateau conceals a vast terrace, covered by a 40 m² bioclimatic pergola, next to a 10 x 4 m swimming pool. The grounds are enclosed by walls or railings. The parklands are dotted with tall trees, lawns, groves of trees, meadows and a 1,000 m² pond fed by rainwater. It is bordered to the north-east by the Boulogne, where a riverbank of almost 200 linear metres provides direct access to the river.

A splendid eighteenth-century mansion near Nantes, nestled in a beautiful landscaped garden that covers over a hectare and includes a pond and outhouses. The edifice is an emblematic example of the town’s architectural heritage. It bears witness to the rich history – and anecdotes – of this delightful area south of the majestic River Loire. The property can be considered one of the famous bijou mansions that dot the countryside around Nantes. These homes were built for the pleasure of high society during the upper middle classes’ golden age: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The house is set back from a secondary road. It stands behind a remote-controlled metal gate that is flanked by two tall square pillars of dressed stone. The outdoor entrance area is divided into two distinct sections. An initial closed court reserved for parking includes a broad asphalt driveway, lawns, and lines of evergreen oaks and crape myrtles. A second, gravelled court is fenced off with wrought-iron railings and gates. It leads straight up to the house’s entrance door. This main courtyard faces north. It is bordered with the edifice’s principal section, which dates back to 1789 and offers 500m² of living space. Two wings extend it at right angles. They contain living spaces and areas for relaxation that cover around 600m². On the south side, trees dot a landscaped garden. Some of these trees are over a hundred years old. A path edges the eastern side of the grounds and leads to a group of outhouses. A kennel, a tunnel greenhouse, and a walled, fenced-off pond complete this marvellous 12,600m² property surrounded by walls.

An authentic Nantes folly with its wooded grounds and private jetty, on the banks of the River Erdre near Nantes. The entrance to the property is via a motorised, wrought iron gate at the end of a cul-de-sac off a small local road. A drive traverses a thicket and runs around the back of the house, leading to garages and a Directoire-style terrace. From here, the majestic view opens out over the parkland below and the Erdre at its widest point. The steeply sloping grounds, planted with centuries-old trees, end in a bank almost 100 m long, featuring a private jetty. A small country house built by the town's former mayor on the banks of the River Erdre in 1821, it was subsequently remodelled with the addition of a Directoire-style double dormer window. Two wings were added in the early 20th century, lending the residence its true 'folie nantaise' (Nantes folly) appearance, named after the summer villas built by wealthy industrialists at that time. The rectangular folly has a central section with three bays, flanked by two single-bay wings. At the top of the grounds, close to the entrance gates, there are discreet outbuildings used for parking vehicles and storing equipment. Their coursed schist masonry walls and tiled roofs stand in no contrast with those of the noble building, with its rendered facades and slate roof.

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A remarkably restored Belle Époque villa and its guest houses on the banks of the Loire, halfway between Nantes and Ancenis. The first gate opens from the street onto a hedge-lined driveway, which leads to a second gate framed by two dry-stone pillars. The grounds unfold from here, featuring on one side a vast, deep garage, a shelter and a workshop, as well as two guest houses created in the former stables. At the back, the sober rear facade of the villa completes the view of the upper part of the grounds. The sloping parkland surrounds the residence on both sides. It features a swimming pool with pool house and a large terrace in front of the elevation facing the Loire, before descending down to the perimeter wall. Below the terrace, two rows of centuries-old trees frame an elegant expanse of lawn. Finally, a gate in the perimeter wall provides access to the street leading to the station. This country residence was built for an industrialist from Nantes in 1899. It comprises a rectangular main building preceded by two semi-octagonal turrets linked by a central bay at the front, on the Loire side, which seem to form a projecting decorative structure. The two-storey villa is almost entirely built of tuffeau limestone on a granite base. The rear section has a four-pitched slate roof. Each of the turrets has a pavilion roof and the central bay, which features a protective Virgin Mary statue in a recess on the facade, is topped by a triangular pediment towering the rear roof. On either side of the central section, two single-storey wings replicate the semi-octagonal shape of the turrets, adding stability and balance to the overall appearance. The decorative window surrounds are of tuffeau limestone. The stone balustrades on the piano nobile were filled in during a previous restoration. The two octagonal roofs of the turrets are supported by a corbelling with large moulded dentils. The two adjoining guest houses, which come into view just after passing through the entrance gate, have been converted into independent gîtes. They are of rendered schist masonry with brickwork and topped by slate gable roofs. Each house has its own little garden, bordered by a vertically slatted chestnut fence.

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