manor for sale Courçay, France

Dive into history at the heart of the Royal City of Loches, following in the footsteps of Joan of Arc and Richard the Lionheart. Perched atop the citadel, behind the 15th-century ramparts, this 18th-century palace offers a rare setting, imbued with serenity and rich in history.Located inside the ramparts of Loches, behind its elegant wrought-iron gate, its paved courtyard, the Palais D'Or reveals an intimate and refined atmosphere. The generous volumes, local white stone, tuffeau, and architectural authenticity give the residence a unique character, enhanced by high-quality amenities. The ground floor opens onto a vast entrance hall leading to an immense elegant living room with parquet flooring and a marble fireplace boasting a ceiling height of over 3.20 meters, providing beautiful volumes to the gilded moldings and lovely brightness thanks to the French windows opening onto the enclosed garden. Right next to it, the dining room, accommodating up to twelve guests, also features direct access to the outdoors, ideal for extending receptions on beautiful days. Continuing on one side, the kitchen and laundry are fully equipped: La Cornue stove, double dishwasher, double refrigerator-freezer, and wine cellar, meeting the demands of a refined way of life, along with a single bedroom and a guest WC. On the other side, a library allows for quiet escapes, completing this level.On the first floor, the sleeping area offers three elegant bedrooms, two shower rooms fitted in the towers provide remarkable comfort, including one with a spectacular golden column shower with sculptural design and integrated sink and WC, adding a distinctly signature touch to the whole and perfecting this floor. In the basement, a wellness and leisure area houses fitness equipment as well as a billiards table. A secure room with a safe is present. Other rooms serve as a boiler room with a boiler, thermodynamic tank, and water softener, wood storage, and garden furniture. Below, a wine tasting cellar invites you to savor the region's fine wines in an authentic and intimate setting.Through the courtyard, an independent pavilion harmoniously completes the property. On the ground floor, a fully equipped kitchen opens onto a warm living-dining room, a guest WC, and a laundry room complete this level. On the first floor, two parquet-floored bedrooms with closets share a bathroom equipped with a bathtub and a shower. On the second floor, accessible by a steep staircase, a bedroom with twin beds, sloping ceiling and no door, forms a more intimate space. In the basement, several cellars function as a boiler room with a boiler, 200-litre water tank, water softener, storage cellar, as well as a tasting cellar.The exteriors form a true green haven of over 1820m2 in the heart of the historic ramparts. A vast terrace allows for outdoor meals, complemented by a barbecue area, hammocks, benches, and garden furniture inviting relaxation within a French garden dotted with fruit trees. A garden shed and an underground room for multiple projects complete this property. The property features private parking for three vehicles, with additional spaces available a few minutes' walk outside the ramparts. This exceptional residence combines heritage elegance, contemporary comfort, and high-end amenities in a unique historic setting in the heart of Touraine, offering a rare and prestigious lifestyle.

This property is located in the North East of Tours center, 4 minutes from the TGV station, 14 minutes from the TOURS center, at the gates of a very popular village in the Loire Valley, renowned for its wine. The property offers several buildings including a completely redesigned Manor House of approximately 500m², all in the elegance of yesteryear with the pleasant surprise of contemporary modernity without excess. A caretaker's house of around 60m², very pleasant for entertaining, stables of around 150m² on the ground and 150m² of attic, all to be rethought. A 15th century troglodyte chapel classified as a historic monument and a bakery from the same period. The property also offers a space a little away from a relaxation area with terrace, small chalet, heated swimming pool of 10X5 all decorated with a French garden. The property offers two entrances, one of which opens onto an avenue of lime trees overlooking the park, the orchard without forgetting the vegetable garden. There are six cellars of around 1,000 m², all in excellent condition, each with its own daily use. The Manor welcomes you in a vast hall offering a magnificent view of the 17th century staircase leading to a reception row of approximately 100m² (woodwork, herringbone parquet flooring, period fireplace), composed of a small intimate lounge, a large library lounge, a dining room, a very large fitted and equipped kitchen, without forgetting the service corridor with the second staircase. The first level is served by a corridor opening onto the two staircases, each floor of the manor opens onto the exterior, all the bedrooms are equipped with WC and bathroom and VMC. The first floor is made up of a 40m² master suite with large dressing room and bathroom, three other 25m² suites and a 30m² semi-troglodyte suite with small, fully independent living room and an office with bathroom and WC. The upper floor is served by a wide corridor leading to a laundry room, two suites and a small 50m² apartment with living room, kitchenette, bedroom and bathroom and WC without forgetting the exit to the exterior of the domain. The guest house is made up on the ground floor of a small A/E kitchen, a living room, on the first floor two bedrooms and a bathroom WC. The cellars are very healthy, they each have their uses: laundry, boiler room, workshop, storage, festive cellar of 300m², tasting cellar 150m², billiard room with fireplace. The property is served by mains drainage, town gas and heat pump. This place is remarkable both for its history and for its ease of daily life, it is worth making a detour to discover it.

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.

On the outskirts of Amboise, in a dominant position, a 17th-century manor, its outbuildings, and its park of 2.5 hectares. The manor and its park, supported by powerful retaining walls, overlook the Loire Valley. Access by car is through a monumental gate. Built in the 17th century and modified in the 19th century, the main house is preceded by a courtyard. Located in the northwest corner, the building occupies an L-shaped plan, with each wing extended by a pavilion slightly projecting. The whole is raised over two levels, topped by a mansard roof illuminated by dormer windows. The façades, rendered and adorned with stone corner chains, are pierced by large openings, protected by shutters. A few bull's-eye windows punctuate the façade. On the garden side, the openings are flanked by solid shutters or fitted with bars. The roof of the central wing is made of fibrociment, while that of the side pavilions is made of slate.In front, a set of outbuildings is backed against the rock that gave its name to the estate. A French garden extends from a terrace to a pleasure pavilion. The rest of the park has a rural atmosphere, with a pasture overlooked by a wooded area.This description has been automatically translated from French.