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An elegant 360-m² manor house with a 1,100-m² garden, in the Hauts-de-Seine area, between Sceaux and Fontenay-aux-Roses. Two centuries of history are engraved in the walls of the property located on the edge of several green spaces. The manor house was built in 1899 very close to Sceaux and was a place where Parisians would come for a weekend to enjoy themselves and sate their appetites, taking advantage of the clean country air. A wrought-iron entrance gate leads into the property’s grounds. The front façade of the building is made of ashlar and includes eight windows, while on the rear red-brick façade there are seven. The mansard style roof is made of zinc and slate tiles. The house is made up of a basement, a ground floor and two upper floors, with a total of eleven rooms. The ground floor houses a vast living room, an office and a kitchen, all of which are bathed in light. The first floor and second floor each possess four bedrooms and one bathroom. A lean-to standing against the house is used for storing logs and for drying laundry. The large, lush, approximately 1,000-m² garden is lined by tall trees, with a central lawn. To the rear of the house, a south-facing patio covered by a pergola on which Virginia creeper grows makes it possible to enjoy warm sunny days in total peace and quiet. The utility room can be reached from the exterior, at the rear of the house. At the end of the garden there is a garage with capacity for one car. The heating is gas powered and all the windows are double glazed.

On the banks of the Rance, between Dinan and Dinard, a manor from the 16th and 18th centuries listed as a historical monument, its outbuildings, and its chapel. From a departmental road, a first gateway flanked by granite pillars accesses the estate, which extends over more than 30 hectares. A long avenue of oaks leads after more than 300 meters to a second gate, pierced in a stone wall enclosure, which protects the manor and the ancillary buildings, including a chapel. It is possible to reach a longhouse as well as part of the outbuildings independently, without passing through the lordly residence. Facing south, the latter overlooks the Rance. In Renaissance style, the facade indicates a construction from the mid-16th century. The building is notably distinguished by its cut-off staircase tower, topped by a square volume covered with a four-pitched slate roof supported by granite corbels. Terracotta finials and decorative mitrons adorn the two-pitched roof of the house. Reconfigurations and extensions date back to the 18th century, with the creation of two lower wings, surmounted by dormers with a hipped roof. Finally, a small, more recent building to the east houses a kitchen. The whole is built of sandstone and granite rubble, partially covered with a light render. The chains and the surrounds of the openings are made of cut granite stone. To the north, partially adjoining the building, the outbuildings border an enclosed area, a remnant of an old vegetable garden and a courtyard. Beyond, the longhouse was rebuilt in the 19th century to replace an old farmstead. The lands are surrounded by meadows and woods as well as by the river below, without neighbors or nuisances.This description has been automatically translated from French.

In Amiens, a fully restored 1930s manor house, with an approximately 2,000-m², tree-filled garden. An entrance with a large wrought-iron gate opens into a vast courtyard in front of a 1930s residence, with an avant-corps coated in white rendering dotted with blue-grey half-timbering. Art deco decorative elements blend seamlessly with the house’s Anglo-Norman style, which is characterised by half-timbering on the upper part of the building and overhanging roofs. There is plenty of space for parking cars, either outside or in one of the two garages. To the right of the edifice, there is a path that leads to a large ornamental garden to the rear.

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In Seine-et-Marne, behind an asymmetrical facade, an atypical artists' home, with exotic scents. From the street, a pedestrian door opens onto an inner courtyard abounding in plants and greenery. From the entrance, one discovers a small and yet lush outdoor space designed for eating, reading and relaxing. Surrounded by the house and a perimeter wall, not a sound can be heard. The solid lodging, which resembles a simple village house, stands in the corner.

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.

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A modern apartment on the 4th floor of an Art Deco building, In between the Marais, Saint-Merri and Beaubourg districts. The building was originally built in the 1930s for office space but the use of its top three floors changed approximately ten years ago. The Art Deco façade is typical of the early 20th century, thanks to its symmetry, large windows and geometrical patterns. The property is on the fourth level, where a bow-window interrupts the uniformity of the façade as well as enlarging the interior. The main entrance is situated on the right of the building. It stands out thanks to its large, double-leaf glazed door and its period ironwork. The apartment is the only one on its level and can be reached by a large staircase and spacious elevator. The entrance door opens directly into a large, 60-m² living room. One of its sides is entirely occupied by windows which contribute, along with the light-coloured oak flooring, to the place’s brightness. A fitted kitchen with natural wood fittings matching the flooring opens out onto the living room. Two bedrooms, each with a walk-in wardrobe and en suite shower room with lavatory, open into the lounge separated by a frosted glass sliding door system, which makes it possible to obtain a feeling of increased volume or close the bedrooms for privacy. The 16-m² master bedroom stands at one end of the apartment. It has a walk-in wardrobe and a large, almost 12-m² bathroom with a lavatory. Heating is provided by a reversible heat exchange pump, which provides air conditioning in the summer.

Located 1.5 hours from Paris, on the edge of a forest, lies an elegant 19th-century manor house and its enclosed grounds with a swimming pool, set on nearly 1 hectare. This was the farmer's house, featuring a bell tower that overlooked the people and animals, buildings, and pastures. A local road leads into the countryside, providing access to the property's courtyard. The estate is surrounded by the house and the wall of the enclosure, which encircles a small garden and the pool, a U-shaped outbuilding, and a pasture. A large garden unfolds in front of and to the south of the house and the enclosed grounds.This description has been automatically translated from French.

A 14th-century collegiate church listed as a historical monument, with an apartment, in 1.3-hectare grounds, in Burgundy, at the gateway to the Auxois region, at the top of a hill. This collegiate church boasts a dominant position with panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. It is encircled by grounds of more than 1 hectare and is far from any neighbours, apart from Thil Castle, built in the 12th century by Jean II, lord of Thil and a constable of the Duchy of Burgundy. By a deed dated 10th March 1340, he founded the current collegiate church. The edifice was built between 1341 and 1344. It was consecrated on 12th August 1344 by the bishop of Autun, under the patronage of the Trinity of the Virgin Mary. This two-storey collegiate church is made of Auxois stone in the shape of a Roman cross, boasting a single nave with three bays, from which a two-bay radiating chapel extends to the east, and crossed by a transept with two protruding arms. Two chapels open onto the northern and southern arms of the transept. To the west, the bell tower stands above the entrance to the edifice, adorned with four pointed-arch tori resting on small columns with foliage decorated capitals. The gables of the northern and southern arms of the transept as well as the remains of the drip stone on the bell tower allude to the former steep roof made of flat tiles then of lava rock that was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1893. A waterproof cover was installed in 1926 on the extrados of the vault to protect the building from water damage. Solid buttresses bear the outward force of the vaults and are more noticeable on the southern façade where they also supported the weight of the now disappeared entrance porch’s roof structure. Modillon cornices underline the levelling off of the roofs. There are a reduced number of openings: one small, pointed arch opening per bay and a triple one on the flat radiating chapel. Arrow windows punctuate each bay from the former rampart walk and, as with certain elements on the bell tower, point to the church’s military and defensive nature. The four-storey, square bell tower, supported at each corner by projecting corner buttresses, is topped by a low-slung, hipped roof made of flat tiles. Only the top floor opens onto all of the building’s faces, via two ribbed windows separated by a pilaster topped by a protruding paved gutter. The openings boast a horizontal mullion and are flanked by four sculpted gargoyles.

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Five former flour mills for commercial use, with water rights, at the entrance to a medieval town 25 minutes from Limoges . Seen from the air, the four mills built in a row have a remarkable layout, which ingeniously hugs the rugged relief of the banks of the Vienne. Their presence on an island, which divides the course of the river into two arms within a natural loop, has been attested to since at least 1224. At the front, an imposing rock like a ship's bow seems to be holding the island up. It also serves as a fulcrum for the dyke that crosses the river and allows the water to be diverted into a regulation canal. Each of the small mills, built with 'limousinerie' masonry and one or two storeys high, has its own unique architecture, with timber-framed walls filled with cob. The earthy tones of the rendering from the local soil, combined with the canal tile roofs laid without lime, ensure perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape. On one bank, a larger former flour mill, built more recently and set back from the main road, consists of two three-storey buildings. Most of its original mechanisms have been preserved. This industrial heritage is complemented by a number of garden plots and coppice groves scattered around the island, as well as two parking areas.

A 17th-century dwelling and its outbuildings, some of which are inhabitable, on nearly 12 hectares of pastures and woodlands, thirty minutes from Tours. From town, the road traverses fields and forests up until it reaches a no-through road, which provides access to several dwellings. Facing an immense pasture bordered by woods, included within the property, a wide gravel courtyard is surrounded by a group of buildings on three of its sides: a 17th-century dwelling, in the middle, is flanked on one side by a barn and outbuildings and, on the other, by a covered carriage entranceway, a former press room and a garage. A few metres away, a second entrance to the property leads to another group of buildings, which have been transformed into dwellings, while, behind the main dwelling, a gravel patio faces a second pasture and the surrounding countryside.

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.

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A former 18th-century monastery and its garden, in the fortified village of Mareugheol, within the Puy-de-Dôme department. The dwelling is concealed behind a carriage entrance gate and a pedestrian door, topped with a niche with a statue of the Virgin Mary, while the former monastery, grouped around an interior courtyard, features a main dwelling with southern-style architecture: red tile roofs, highlighted with genoise cornices, ochre plaster and red louvred shutters. Extended to the north by a second building with two storeys as well as to the southwest with a former chapel, the property also includes many outbuildings, such as cellars, an old fermentation room, a former parlour and a storeroom. As for the back garden, planted with lilacs and cherry trees, it reaches all the way to the cemetery. With approximately 170 m² of inhabitable floor area, the main dwelling features thick walls as well as vaulted ceilings, which keep the house nice and cool during the warm summer months. Last, but not least, the main façade, facing south, has three different entrances, one of which is accessible via a staircase that communicates directly with the first floor.

A former municipal tax collection office renovated into a village dwelling, between Mount Lozère and Mount Aigoual, in the Cévennes National Park. In the village, the former municipal tax collection office – which once housed the local school a century ago – has been entirely restored and converted into cosy guest accommodations. With approximately 170 m², the house stands out thanks to its high ceilings and rooms bathed in light, which provide 180° panoramic views of the surrounding Cévennes valleys that extend as far as the eye can see. Facing south, it marks the village’s southern border and is extended by a wooden patio that seems to float above the landscape. As for its renovations, they were able to conserve the soul of the premises, while still retaining its original materials and incorporating all modern comforts, such as a pellet furnace, fibre optic cable, a contemporary kitchen and bathrooms.

A house with a garden and two garages in Tours, in France's Loire Valley, not far from the city centre. Set back from a calm street, the house is partly hidden by a magnolia. A gate in a rendered stone wall encloses a front court. An iron pedestrian gate framed between two brick pillars leads into the property. The house has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. Stone balusters run across the top of the facade. The rendered facade is punctuated with rectangular windows. A front flight of steps leads up to the entrance door. At the back, a garden stretches to a cul-de-sac that leads to two garages. Today, the house is divided into a ground-floor apartment, a first floor with two bedrooms, one of which has a bathroom and a lavatory and the other one of which has an adjoining office or walk-in wardrobe, and a second floor with two studio apartments. A basement extends beneath the building. The whole edifice could be turned back into a family home. Depending on your plans, a certain amount of renovation work would be required.

A 17th-century manor house with a panoramic view, outbuildings, a swimming pool and helipad, in a 13-hectare estate, in the Limargue sector. The property is located in a farming hamlet that is very typical of the Limargue sector, in a dominant position on a ‘pech’, the name given locally to a hill. The manor house and its large courtyard to the north used for private parking can be found at the highest part of the estate and can be reached directly through a wrought-iron gate that opens off the country road running through the hamlet. There is another entrance via the south, via a long earthen track that winds through the fields, leading to the barn and hangars spread out through the 13-hectare estate. Opposite the splendidly looking manor house, built in 1608, restructured in 1688 and extended in 1823, there is a large building combining garage space and living space. It lines one side of the courtyard and separates the manor building from the other houses in the hamlet. The manor house and barn underwent extensive renovation work between 2002 and 2007. When work began, the manor house was in a state of near ruin and it took two full years of work to make this edifice alone habitable. The totally uninterrupted view takes in a succession of natural meadows bordered by hedges and woods. A long, 12-metres by 3-metres, salt-filtered, heated, granite swimming pool fitted with a waterfall fountain, counter-current swimming system and a security roller shutter that is fully concealed when open, has been installed to the northwest of the house. Alongside the earthen track that leads down to the vegetable garden, another barn has partially been converted into a fitness room. Further to the south, a helipad and its modern facilities have been smartly blended into the wooded countryside, away from view. On the other side of the valley, a third barn still serves its original agricultural purpose. At its southern tip, the property is enclosed by a naturally cultivated vegetable garden, an orchard and a storage hut. Not far from the vegetable garden, there is a 20-metres by 60-metres dressage area, next to which a hangar for the horses has been erected; there is also another shelter to the north, nearer to the residence. In the shade of a small wood, a natural pond into which a spring on the estate flows also stands on the property.

A 17th & 18th century manor house, outbuildings and parkland, set in almost 2 hectares of land near Azay-le-Rideau, in Touraine . At the end of the village, a lane winds through the countryside to the property entrance. A wrought-iron gate, supported by two tufa stone pillars, opens onto a driveway that crosses the parkland in front of the residence and leads on to the outbuildings. Originally a simple hunting lodge, the dwelling was probably built in the 17th century, then extended in the 18th century and later. It is in an asymmetrical shape and is oriented east-west. The main west-facing façade features tufa-framed windows with cornices under the roof and a stringcourse over a tower wing. The carved wooden entrance door on the central section is off-centre. To the east, French windows lead from a grass terrace into the house. The slate roofs are adorned with zinc finials. The central double body, with a single storey under the eaves, is topped by a small square tower and flanked to the north by a rectangular tower lodge, also two storeys’ high under the eaves, and a single-storey building to the south. The rendered stone façades, with tufa stone quoins, have various sized windows, with small or large panes and tufa stone surrounds. The slate roofs have triangular pediment dormers in the central section. The interiors still have some of the old features, such as parquet flooring and tufa stone fireplaces in the reception rooms. The six bedrooms are spread over the three floors of the house. Extensive wooded parkland surrounds the manor house, covering almost 2 hectares, with terraces, gardens and undergrowth. There are also rock cellars, a swimming pool in need of renovation and three outbuildings on the estate.

A former farming estate to be restored, with a pond and 9 hectares of wooded grounds, in the Périgord Blanc area, near to Saint-Astier. The property stretches over a surrounding surface of more than 9 ha. An earthen track, at each end of which there are entrances to the property, separates the wooded plots, which make up most of the estate, from the meadows. In the centre, an approximately 2,000-m² pond adjoins a naturally landscaped garden, the main set of buildings and an outbuilding in ruins. The architectural complex forms a closed square with an inner courtyard that is today covered in grass. The north and western parts form an L-shape and accommodate the living areas, while the two other sides are single-level outbuildings. Two corner pavilions, with three and four levels respectively, overlook the rest of the buildings and the courtyard. The living areas are made up of two double level wings and a three-story corner pavilion, all of which are attached and easily interconnected. They are currently divided into three separate dwellings measuring approximately 345 m², 131 m² and 157 m² respectively. However, they could easily be transformed into a single house or divided differently according to choice. The group of buildings, which is both very coherent and yet also fairly diverse, boasts façades made of rendered stone, mainly regularly sized rectangular windows with ashlar frames, extremely sober cornices and gabled as well as hipped roofs made of half-round tiles or flat tiles on the tallest of the two pavilions.