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Just minutes from the charming medieval town of Quintin, a true historical gem with numerous classified monuments, this estate offers an enchanting setting to combine castle life, tourist accommodation, and prestigious events.Nestled in a green environment, in the heart of 15 hectares of landscaped parkland with century-old trees, this manor full of character (over 600 m² of living space) benefits from a full south exposure, ensuring generous light from the first rays of the Breton sun.The property is spread over three levels: Ground floor: spacious entrance hall, two dining rooms including one with a monumental fireplace, library, light-filled winter garden, office, master suite, kitchen and pantry, laundry room, and restrooms.Upstairs: three beautiful suites with private bathrooms, two additional bedrooms with a shared bathroom, and a child's room.In the attic: a large dormitory, a loft with cathedral ceiling, a shower room, and a bedroom nestled in the small dungeon.Regarding reception and hosting, the estate is already structured: Two independent and equipped cottages welcome families, friends, or visitors on a tourist stay.A magnificent reception room (not attached to the manor, to ensure the tranquility of the place) allows for the organization of weddings, seminars, exhibitions, or private parties.Numerous stone outbuildings and a caretaker's house are to be renovated, offering great potential for expansion or diversification.The timeless charm of stone, the nobility of the natural setting, and the professional adaptability of this property make this place a rare opportunity: exceptional main residence, event or hotel activity, or a life project in the green with high added value.Complete file and visit available upon request.Contact your AXO - L'immobilier Actif agent at 07 83 90 83 95, Régine CORBEAU URVOAS (EI) Commercial Agent RSAC 422.269.761 Saint-Brieuc. More information at www.axo.immo (ref. 8500298697). Fees: 3.03% VAT included to be borne by the buyer. Price excluding agency fees: €1,650,000. Information about the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: https://www.georisques.gouv.fr/This description has been automatically translated from French.

A manor with 15th-century origins, with outbuildings and almost 13 hectares of meadows, on the Fringes of Rennes, in the middle of wooded countryside. The property can be reached from a small country road, along a no-through lane. The manor is a former rural and manorial complex whose origins date back to the 15th century. It is listed as part of France’s general cultural heritage and is set around a courtyard opening out onto a landscape of meadows and hedgerows. The property includes a main residence altered in the 18th century, a longhouse with a large reception room, as well as several outbuildings. The stone buildings, which are made of shale rubble stone and mainly topped with slate roofs, boast several features typical of Brittany’s architecture, such as a square staircase tower topped by a pavilion roof, ashlar surrounds on the openings and still visible rural volumes. Next to the manor, there are two wells, one of which is fitted with a submersible pump. The land is mainly made up of meadows, some of which are bordered by pastureland fences. A stream crosses through the centre of the property and runs below the patio of the longhouse, which dominates the surrounding countryside. An 8,200-m² area situated in the immediate vicinity of the main buildings is listed as a tourist attraction related natural zone, which allows the creation of tourist accommodation as well as the development of leisure activities and event hosting. The longhouse is declared as a holiday cottage and has reception capacity for 80 people and accommodation capacity for 15 people. The property is authorised to welcome members of the public and has a good rating for its accessibility for people with reduced mobility.

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 17th-century charterhouse, its converted outbuildings and small hamlet of dwellings, to be restored, to the north of Périgueux, within the greater Dordogne region. Nestled within verdant countryside, the immense property, with approximately 1.7 entirely enclosed hectares, is surrounded by meadows and woods, which envelop the property within luxuriant vegetation. Accessible via a semi-circular gate, flanked on either side by fencing and supported by four stone pilasters, which opens on to a lane lined with catalpas, multi-century oaks and plane trees, the U-shaped charterhouse is located in the middle of meticulously maintained landscaped grounds planted with a wide variety of trees and shrubs. As for the estate, it also includes several annexe buildings, grouped together like a small hamlet, while the local stone walls, in a palette of white, yellow and pink, help structure the whole by sectioning off the various spaces, buttressing the large patio, demarcating the different entrances and encircling the ponds.

A manor house, two gites and outbuildings in 8 hectares of wooded grounds in a village, 30 minutes from Poitiers. A small country road runs alongside the property wall to a gate enhanced by two pillars supporting an imposing, sober iron gate. Once past the entrance, two houses appear on either side, each with its own private outdoor space, and further on, there are outbuildings. The manor house is revealed next, followed by the grounds. The main building dates back to the last years of the 18th century, the Directoire period. A wing and stairway tower were added at the beginning of the 20th century copying the original style. A bossed arch on the facade highlights the entrance, which is topped by a balcony. Pedimented dormer windows have been added to the concave Mansard roof on the manor house. The wing has a four-sided slate roof. Render has been applied to all of the facades and the corner ties and window frames are ashlar. Under the 20th century wing, there is a cellar which is accessible from the outside. The two guest houses, situated at the entrance to the estate, one with a small private courtyard and the other with a garden area, are the same style, with stone dressings and canal tile roofs.

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.

In Anjou, at the exit of a village, an ancient priory from the 15th and 18th centuries spanning over 6 hectares. From the road, a tree-lined access path leads to the property. It leads to a gravel courtyard, with a barn on one side and an agricultural shed on the other. In front, surrounded by ancient moats on two of its sides, the residence is preceded by a raised terrace. Erected on the ruins of an ancient fortress, the original priory dates back to the 15th century. It was profoundly altered and expanded in the 18th century, as evidenced by the arrangement of the front facades, with their arched openings. The whole is now composed of two bodies of dwelling that meet at a right angle. The larger one is oriented south-north, the second east-west. Built of stone rubble coated with lime, the two buildings are raised to three levels, including one in the attic. They are topped with high slate roofs with three slopes, pierced with dormer windows in their middle. The frames of the openings, the dormers, the cornices, and the corner chains are made of tuffeau. The inscription 'D.O.M. 1732', placed above the main entrance, recalls the religious origins of the place.This description has been automatically translated from French.

A 19th-century manor house with outbuildings and six hectares of grounds in a protected natural zone where France’s Charente, Charente-Maritime and Deux-Sèvres departments meet. The grounds are located just south of a hamlet. The dwellings in this hamlet border the property’s northern meadows. The manor house faces south-west and looks out at a tree-dotted space. On each side of the manor house, two long buildings form a U shape with the main house. Two towers with pointed cone roofs adorn the complex on both sides. One of these towers adjoins the northern outbuilding. The property’s entrance gate faces a 150-metre-long drive lined with trees. This drive runs up to a road. On the south-east side, there are other outbuildings: a dwelling with an enclosed garden, farm buildings and looseboxes.

A listed 17th-century house with guesthouses and a garden designed by the famous landscape architect Jacques Wirtz, 10 minutes from Normandy's Côte d'Albâtre coastline. Just outside the village, a broad wooden gate and paved drive lead to a vast space. Two guesthouses and a garage stand on one side. The main dwelling and its extension stand on the other side. The grand house is typical of noble Norman dwellings from the mid-17th century. South-facing and rectangular in shape, it has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the tall roof space. The building is crowned with a hipped slate roof with six dormers. The elevations are made of brick. Red brickwork forms the quoins, cornices and window and door surrounds. The facade has five bays. On one side, there is a 19th-century brickwork extension. It has a two-level section with a three-slope roof, followed by a single-storey wing with a roof space. This wing houses a swimming pool. The garden was designed by the famous Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz in the early 2000s. Wirtz is known for his work on two Parisian gardens: the Jardin du Carrousel garden in front of the Louvre Museum and the garden of the Élysée Palace. The property’s garden extends beyond the buildings, which it links together with paved paths, some of which are shaded. This magnificent outdoor space offers striking views.

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 17th century manor house and its 25 ha estate on the banks of the Mayenne. From a small road leading along the picturesque banks of the river to Château-Gontier, a gate provides access to the stately almost 400 m long driveway of the property, bordered by a double row of tulip trees. A courtyard and two formal rectangular gardens face the manor house to the south. To the east flows the river Mayenne. To the west, the wooded hillside gently slopes down. To the north, there are a technical building and a garage, farm buildings, a stream, woodlands and ponds. The property is unoverlooked.

A large, luxurious home, its outbuildings and almost 5 ha between the Manche and Calvados departments in the Bessin region. The road gives direct access to the entrance courtyard. The 17th century house is directly in front. A large, Napoleon-style stable stands at right angles. Both buildings are surrounded by vast areas, laid to lawn, followed by meadows. The other outbuildings are set out behind the stables.

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 remarkable property for events, accommodation and gastronomy in a corner of France renowned for its natural beauty and art of living, 40 minutes from Toulouse and Montauban. Tucked away among vineyards and fields, the property stands out for its balance and harmony. A long driveway lined with trimmed hedges and punctuated with stone statues leads to a neatly designed court of honour, which draws your gaze to the main house. This edifice, a grand dwelling with a ground floor and first floor, has an even design and is long and rectangular in form. Its elevations combine brickwork with pale rendering. They are punctuated with a harmonious series of windows fitted with painted shutters and spaced out in a majestic arrangement. The house is crowned with a tiled roof that completes the edifice with understated elegance. Tall trees, including slender cypresses, age-old plane trees and imposing cedars, create a protective environment around the main dwelling. Spread out around the edifice are several outhouses, including a huge reception hall set back from the grand dwelling, a brick lodge and, opposite the latter, a building that is bathed in natural light and that lends itself to a range of possibilities. A former dovecote, converted into a dwelling, is more vertical in form and, in line with it, a workshop and boiler room edge the parkland. Among this series of buildings and natural spaces, the grand house stands proudly as the property’s centrepiece – the jewel in its crown – and bears witness to a refined art of living that endures today.

An authentic 18th-century manor house with 4 hectares of grounds in a village within the Chalosse region, in the south of the Landes department, 45 minutes from the ocean. With its origins harking back to the Renaissance and refurbished many times over the centuries, the property’s current group of buildings dates from the 18th century. Lined with protected multi-century trees, a drive leads to the two-storey manor house, which includes two main buildings placed at right angles to one another. Topped with tile hipped roofs, they are cadenced by Renaissance-style small-paned casement windows and flanked by two square towers.

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 15th and 16th-century manor house, listed as a Historical Monument, its outbuildings and 12-hectare grounds in the Mayenne department. From the village, a small road leads to a private driveway up to the entrance porch, which opens onto a main courtyard. The driveway also extends behind the manor and provides access to two outbuildings located to the west. A third outbuilding encloses the courtyard to the east, near the entrance. Pastures spread out on either side of the driveway. One of them is continued to the north with the first part of an oak grove, which then unfolds towards the west. The manor’s courtyard is extended by a garden, which overlooks a small river. Two other pastures located on the other side are accessible via a bridge. Constructed partially over a basement level, the manor contains four floors, including two built into the roof space. Made out of stone and rubble and coated in plaster, its edifice is crowned with gabled slate roofs and stone rims, punctuated by dormer windows topped with sculpted ornaments. Stone mullioned windows cadence the façade and a double flight staircase leads to the front door. In the back, the body of the main building is flanked by a square tower with a tented roof, a staircase tower and a round tower with a pointed roof. To the east, a small two-storey, hipped slate roof building is attached to the square tower. A cellar, accessible from the outside, is located under a portion of the manor. Its walls are made out of small sandstone masonry, which could date to the 11th and 12th centuries. The manor’s façades and roof, as well as its eastern two-storey wing, are listed as historical monuments.

A 17th-century manor house with more than 1 hectare of enclosed grounds, in the Eure Valley, with outbuildings and an indoor swimming pool. This manor house, which was built in the 17th century, between the reigns of Henri IV and Louis XIII, was originally attached to the neighbouring castle, for which it was most likely the steward’s residence. The residence is made up of a three-storey main section flanked by two wings each with one level less. The lime-rendered facades are punctuated by door and window surrounds as well as quoins made of brick. The steeply-sloped roofs made of flat tiles are dotted with tall gable dormers, with triangular pediments, as well as skylights. The manor house stands opposite an outbuilding, made up of a barn and an indoor swimming pool. The two buildings are separated by a square paved courtyard in which there is a pond. The garden spreads out to the east and is organised into several distinctive spaces linked by paths. It is surrounded by a stone wall bordered by tall hedges on one side and an imposing cliff covered in vegetation on the other. It is dotted with many types of trees, some of which are one-hundred-years old.

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 restored manor house and Historical Monument, surrounded by a walled garden, nestled in the rolling landscape of the Orne department’s Perche region. Within walking distance from the village, halfway up a hillside and at the end of a small lane, the property, enclosed by tall walls, which are, in turn, cadenced by round towers, is accessible via an immense gate, topped with crenulations. As for its tall walls, they surround a large U-shaped interior garden, the latter of which, facing westward towards the surrounding countryside below its enclosure wall, has been meticulously landscaped and deftly blends together the differences in its sloping topography. Standing out thanks to its soaring tile gable roof, which is highlighted with a cornice, the manor is extended by a second, adjacent dwelling, while the other buildings, used as holiday accommodations, a caretaker’s cottage and various outbuildings, respectively, round out the edifices in the enclosure. Lastly, behind the dwelling and accessible via the walled garden, a two-hectare orchard overlooks the countryside.

A fully renovated, 18th-century manor house, 10 minutes from Poitiers, in 2-hectare grounds with a swimming pool. A small country road runs alongside the property and leads to its two entrances. The first is made up of an entrance porch with a wooden gate, while the second possesses a wrought-iron railing gate. After the first entrance, there are garages followed by a wing in front of which a patio has been installed. The main residence can be found at the end of this L-shaped building, enhanced by an ornamental garden. The façades of the main residence are rendered, with stone quoins as well as window and door frames, while the wing boasts exposed stonework. All the roofs are made up of half-round tiles, plus the entirety of the windows are double glazed. Between the house and the garages, a pond, into which a stream flows, was created in the 18th century. The garden extends to the rear and below the house, with a swimming pool at the same height as the main residence and second entrance.

A renovated manor house with a swimming pool, outbuildings and a private lake, 20 minutes from the French city of Rennes. The large 16th-century manor house stands beside its private lake. It is surrounded by more than one hectare of wooded grounds, through which a canal and waterfall flow. The renovated exterior is combined with a contemporary interior, which includes an extensive indoor swimming pool set in a space that connects to a sauna and steam room. The manor house offers 400m² of liveable floor area. It is completed with an 80m² self-contained apartment, a 40m² gîte and garages with a workshop that total 220m² in floor area. You first follow a large tree-lined drive that runs alongside a canal where ducks and moorhens frolic. The manor house then comes into view, in front of a vast lawn surrounded by majestic trees. The edifice is made of granite and is crowned with a slate roof. It has a main section with a ground floor and a first floor and windows set in surrounds of dressed stone. This section is flanked with two towers – one crowned with a pyramidal roof and the other with a steep hipped roof. In line with this main section, there is a long 19th-century section with timber extensions. These parts house a self-contained apartment and garages with a workshop. Standing at a right angle to the manor house, a granite outbuilding with a slate roof houses a gîte and garage. Parkland extends behind the manor house. There is a space for practising golf and lakeside terraces too. The lake is surrounded by weeping willows and silver poplars.

A renovated 15th-century manor, with an outbuilding and 1.5-hectare grounds, located near the birthplace of Ronsard in the Loir River Valley. Dating from the Renaissance, the property, neither a national or regional historical monument, is currently located in a protected area and originally formed a hamlet with the surrounding enclosed properties. From a small country lane, a drive leads to one of the property’s five separate entrances. Once past the main entrance, there is a small pavilion, which was converted into a guesthouse, followed by the two-storey, rectangular manor house. Originally from the 15th century, its central building is topped with a local tile gable roof and punctuated by tall cross-windows. Flanked on one side by a stairway tower with a modillion frieze and a slate roof, on the manor’s other gable end, stands a more modest one-storey building topped with an ancient tile roof. With plaster-coated walls, the manor is decorated with an ashlar stone cornice under the eaves as well as tuffeau stone window and door surrounds. In addition, the frames for the house’s single- or double-glazed cross-windows have all been replaced and are safeguarded by interior shutters. Behind the house, 14 cellars have been hollowed out of the hillside, some of which once contained mushroom beds of varying depths. According to local legend, they also once communicated with the nearby Possonnière manor house where Pierre de Ronsard was born. Lastly, the property’s grounds also include a formal garden, an Italian-inspired garden, a landscaped garden, pinewoods, a dry riverbed and a pasture.

In the Orne department, on the outskirts of the Norman Switzerland region, a 17th-century farm-manor house, its courtyard and garden of nearly 7,700 m². A long driveway, 300 years old and planted with horse chestnut trees, leads to the 17th-century impregnable-looking seigniorial home, once the estate of the famous marquis d’Ango. A covered double gateway with a basket-handle arch decorated with the coat of arms of the Motte Ango family, as well as an adjacent pedestrian door open onto a grand rectangular courtyard. All around, organised in a U shape, is the central manor and its outbuildings, the tree-filled garden and the chateau’s former moats. Facing the courtyard on the southern side, the 17th-century dwelling has two floors with convertible attic space, crowned with a gabled flat tile ochre roof. It is punctuated with three dormer windows topped with triangular pediments. Its stately façades are made out of hard masonry, granite, limestone, schist, puddingstone, formed from large dressed rubble stone. The windows are aligned in vertical rows, including the dormer windows, inserted into dressed grey granite surrounds.

A 17th-century manor, with outbuildings and 2.5-hectare grounds, perched up on a hill on the outskirts of Amboise. The manor and its grounds, buttressed by strong retaining walls and overlooking the Loire Valley, are accessible by vehicle via an immense gate, which opens on to a front courtyard. Built in the 17th century and modified in the 19th, the L-shaped manor, located in the northwest corner, features a slightly offset pavilion on each end, as well as three storeys topped with a floor under the eaves, which is, in turn, bathed in light thanks to its gabled dormers. With plaster-coated exteriors bookended with stone quoins, the manor is cadenced by wide windows safeguarded by louvred shutters as well as several bull’s-eye windows, whereas, on the garden side, solid shutters or grills provide protection for the dwelling’s windows. Featuring a fibre-cement roof over the central wing and slate versions over the lateral pavilions, directly opposite the manor, a group of outbuildings abut the rocky hillside, after which the estate was named, while a formal garden acts as a link between the patio and an ornamental pavilion. As for the grounds, with a wooded area overlooking a pasture, they exude a bucolic and peaceful ambiance.