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This elegant and meticulously restored near 480 sqm property is in a peaceful location 30 minutes south of Laval and 5 km from a delightful town with all amenities. Dating from the 17th century and subsequently extended, it includes a living/reception room and dining room featuring a monumental fireplace, an equipped kitchen, 8 bedrooms, and 7 bath or shower rooms. A magnificent 95 sqm living room commands a beautiful view of the gardens and accesses a superb terrace and swimming pool. An adjacent stone-built annex with a similar architectural style comprises a 3-car garage, the pool’s heating system and storage space. The near 25 hectares of grounds include 6 hectares of woodland, 12 hectares of enclosed meadows, and 4 lakes (4 hectares approx.) The delightful gardens directly access a navigable river, and feature a 12 x 4 metre swimming pool. With two horse boxes, a saddle room, a manège, and a 400 sqm warehouse. Great potential for a tourist-based activity.

Barnes Properties and Châteaux offers you the opportunity to acquire this beautiful Poitevin master house with its two independent houses, an indoor pool, and a 5-hectare plot, located in Vienne (86) near Lencloître.A harmonious and quality ensemble that has benefited from restoration carried out according to the rules of the art with the Heritage Foundation.The buildings are arranged around a large gravelled and flowered courtyard which is accessed through a wrought iron gate.The main house, typically Poitevin, offers approximately 180 m² of living space over 2 levels. It is topped with a roof made of old flat tiles and its facades are coated with lime. The chainings, cornice, and window frames are made of carved limestone.The two independent houses of 75 m² and 140 m² (operated as classified gîtes until 2022, accreditation to be renewed) ideally expand the living space and are sold fully furnished and equipped.Several other outbuildings complement this charming set, including garages, a shelter, a 36 m² room, and a superb barn converted into a heated indoor pool.The land extends over just over 5 hectares of courtyard, park, and farmland.All amenities in Lencloître (5 min). TGV station in Châtellerault (25 min).Property in very good condition. No work required. Ideal for accommodation activities.Energy class: D - Climate class: D / Estimated annual energy expenses for standard use: €2202 - €2978 (reference year for energy prices used to establish the estimate: 2021)Well presented by Jan Erik ALDERLIESTE +33665591211Detailed file available on request.Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.frThis description has been automatically translated from French.

ORNE - 15 MN FROM ARGENTAN Boasting exceptional views of the winding Orne Valley, this square-courtyard farmhouse reveals its rich history. Tastefully renovated, the 280 m² main residence features a superb 64 m² living room with a stone fireplace and a panoramic view of the garden. There is also a large 46 m² kitchen with authentic charm, 4 bedrooms, and 2 bathrooms. Opposite, within the courtyard complex, a harmonious 227-square-meter guest house features a living room of 42 m², 5 bedrooms, and 3 en-suite bathrooms. Surrounded by 2.08 hectares of meadow, the buildings house a remarkable reception hall with perfect acoustics (approx. 137 m²) and other spaces suitable for conversion. This remarkable site has been listed on the “Inventory of Sites,” which protects the exterior grounds. Set in an exceptional heritage setting, this home charms with its thoughtful design. 15 km from the Argentan train station. Energy class: D Climate class: B Estimated annual energy costs for standard usage: between €2,290 and €3,110 per year Prices indexed to 2021. Information on the risks associated with this property is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

In the heart of the French Vexin Regional Natural Park, just 15 minutes from Cergy-Pontoise and 45 minutes from Paris (A15), this character manor house (early 17th century) is set within a rare setting: a cadastral park of approximately 6.52 hectares, combining woodland, an orchard, meadows and a pond. The main residence offers around 360 sq.m of living space and features an elegant layout: beautiful reception rooms, a kitchen, then 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 3 WCs, complemented by two attic office spaces. Period charm is present throughout, with fireplaces, exposed beams, hardwood floors and terracotta tiles. Outdoors, the lifestyle continues with a swimming pool, a tennis court, and outbuildings including a caretaker’s house and a garage. A discreet, exceptional property—ideal as a family residence, an outstanding country retreat, or an entertaining estate. Diagnostics available. Viewings by appointment — ideally 48 hours’ notice.

In the heart of a small village with local shops, hidden behind a superb postern entrance, this elegant 18th-century manor house (approx. 260 sqm) is surrounded by its outbuildings. 6,000 sqm of gardens bordered by a river and complemented by a 1.2 ha orchard. Meticulously restored inside and out, the property features a remarkable Caen stone staircase, a 32 sqm dining room, a 30 sqm fitted kitchen, a toilet, a ground-level bedroom and a large 32 sqm living room, all with stone fireplaces. Upstairs, a corridor leads to three charming bedrooms with period features, and a shower room. The left wing of the manor house remains to be renovated according to personal projects. The 120 sqm insulated attic can be converted into four rooms. Three garages, two of which are automated, storage buildings and two charming pavilions create a particularly elegant ensemble. Heat pump. Selling price: 777,179 euros Fees at vendor's expense Energy class : D Climate class : C Estimated annual energy costs for standard use: between €4,760 and €6,500 per year. Average energy prices indexed to 2021, 2022 and 2023. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

An 18th-century manor house set in a peaceful hamlet in the Seine-et-Marne region, close to la Ferté Gaucher, and apprximately an hour from Paris and one hour from airport Charles de Gaulle. ther proximité to Provins, a popular tourist destination offering visitors an immersion in medieval history and culture. Its architectural style is influenced by contemporary trends and regional characteristics. It evokes the timeless charm and understated elegance of its era, harmoniously integrated into its rural surroundings. The manor's delicate, well-balanced facade features classical symmetry with evenly-spaced windows. The gently sloping roofs are typical of the region, covered with terracotta tiles, adding a touch of elegant rusticity to the ensemble. Beams and interior shutters in some rooms, as well as large fireplaces, some with overmantels, stand proudly in each room, evoking a warm, welcoming atmosphere and testifying to the craftsmanship of the period. The interior spaces on three levels are generous and bright, with tiled floors on the ground floor. The first floor has five bedrooms and bathroom facilities. The second level comprises five attic bedrooms in need of renovation. A lawned courtyard links the various buildings and its fully-enclosed garden park, creating a haven of peace where time seems to stand still. In short, this manor house embodies the harmony between classical architecture and rural charm, offering an elegant and peaceful retreat in a picturesque setting just an hour from Paris. The outbuildings, with their orangery and magnificent oak beams, offer a multitude of possibilities for conversion into apartments, guest rooms, workshops, garages for classic cars, or even others. For car enthusiasts, a famous racetrack is just ten kilometers away. All shops and amenities are about 8 km away in the commune of La Ferté Gaucher. Energy class : F Climate class : F Estimated annual energy costs for standard use: between 10 850 euros and 14 740 euros per year. Prices indexed to January 1, 2021. Excessive energy consumption: Class F. As of January 1, 2028, the performance level is between classes A and E. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: georisques.gouv.fr

15 minutes from Saumur, in a village on the banks of the Loire, a 15th-century mansion, its guest house, winter garden, and hanging gardens. From a narrow street east of the town center, an iron gate framed by two pilasters opens onto a paved courtyard. This leads first to the main house, dating from the 15th century and rising three levels in tuffeau under a slate gabled roof. At the location of an old twin bay, the north facade is pierced by a molded mullioned window, above which is a semicircular window divided into two. The building is flanked to the west by a 16th-century stair tower, extended by a neoclassical rectangular structure dating from the 19th century. The latter is topped with a four-pitched roof pierced by a triangular pediment dormer. Corner pilasters with Ionic capitals, denticulated cornice, and paneled bays adorn the facades while a sculpted medallion depicting a page crowns the entrance. To the west, a guest house is accessible from the courtyard and by the street via a separate entrance. The tuffeau building rises three levels; the roof is slate. A winter garden is arranged on the top floor, facing one side onto a terrace and the other onto a formal garden, both on the slope and facing north towards the Loire. The rest of the property includes a vast vaulted cellar as well as a well.This description has been automatically translated from French.

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 renovated 15th-century Breton manor with vast grounds and a medieval garden, nestled between Lamballe and Dinan in northern Brittany. The property is tucked away in a hamlet not far from its local town. Country lanes that snake through woods and meadows lead up to the property. The manor comes into view beyond a bend in the road. The edifice towers above its natural surroundings. The estate covers around two hectares. A shrub-lined drive leads into it. This drive takes you to a court. The manor and two outhouses stand around this court: one outhouse is a former dwelling and the other is a former barn. The manor was mentioned as early as in the 15th century. It was redesigned in the 17th century. Over a period of several years, the edifice was renovated by its occupants, who were driven by their passion for built heritage and history and by a concern for authenticity, quality and sustainability. They aimed to turn the edifice into a comfortable, inviting family home. The loft is insulated with cellulose fibre. The rest of the interior is insulated with hemp and earth for thermal regulation.

A 16th-century manor house and its wooded garden in the Suisse Normande region, 15 minutes from Falaise. Opposite the imposing 12th-century church of Saint-Martin, a wrought-iron gateway adorned with fine lance-point balusters and flanked by a Caen stone pillar topped by a gendarme opens onto a tree-lined driveway. A courtyard and terrace surround the manor house, which has an adjoining outbuilding on one side. On the opposite side, a gate leads to the back of the property and the garden planted with hundred-year old trees.

In Burgundy, in the land of Colette, 2 hours from Paris, a Belle Époque seaside-style villa set on just over 1 hectare. Along the marked paths, groves appear, an open landscape enlivened by numerous roads lined with undergrowth, ponds, forests, and small hills. A varied and hilly countryside, where peaceful little roads wind through. A double wrought iron gate marks the entrance to the park, where a direct access from the road leads to a curved driveway that loops in front of the house, placed in the center, then continues towards the outbuilding at the back; a second independent access serves a parking space that can accommodate up to ten cars. The forest borders the property. An old well remains that could be reused. The villa was said to have been built during the Roaring Twenties at the initiative of a wealthy Mexican for a woman close to him. Local tradition states that he happened to arrive at the station of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye before acquiring the land. The main entrance is marked by its antique columns that support a niche, a pear-shaped baluster railing, and a door topped with a semicircular glass transom. Facing southwest, built on a basement and raised to three levels, the building adopts an asymmetrical composition. Its main volume, coated in a light shade, is topped with a slate gabled roof, punctuated by dormer windows. A square tower, slightly out of line, occupies one corner and features a covered belvedere. The facade is rhythmically patterned with large arched windows at the ground floor, extended by a continuous balcony at the upper level, protected by an ornate metal railing. On the first floor, two paired windows open onto small projecting balconies.This description has been automatically translated from French.

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.

A 16th-century country house with a renovated dwelling, nestled in one hectare of lush grounds with a lake and orchard near the town of Morlaix in Brittany. This beautiful property offers absolute privacy, far from the main roads. It is close to places that are full of life, yet isolated enough to be an oasis of bucolic calm. A little road leads up to the estate, the entrance to which opens out into a courtyard where an old country house and a charming dwelling stand. Behind them, a garden dotted with fruit trees slopes gently down to a summer lodge that overlooks a lake at the bottom. Facing the courtyard entrance is a passage into a vegetable garden.

In Anjou, at the exit of a village, an ancient priory from the 15th and 18th centuries on 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 an elevated terrace. Built on the remains of an ancient fortress, the original priory dates back to the 15th century. It was deeply renovated and enlarged in the 18th century, as evidenced by the arrangement of the front facades, with their arched windows. The complex today consists of two bodies of buildings that meet at a right angle. The larger one is oriented north-south, the second east-west. Built of stone rubble coated with lime, the two buildings rise to three levels, including one in the attic. They are topped with high slate roofs with three slopes, pierced by dormer windows in their middle. The window frames, the dormer windows, the cornices, and the corner chains are made of tufa. The inscription 'D.O.M. 1732', placed above the main entrance door, recalls the religious origins of the place.This description has been automatically translated from French.

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.

On the edge of Normandy Switzerland and the banks of the Orne, a 18th century manor to restore, its outbuildings and equestrian domain on nearly 4 hectares. 15 minutes on foot from the center of the village, a small departmental road leads to the entrance of the estate, enclosed by a schist wall topped with a wrought iron fence. The gate, flanked by stone pilasters crowned with gendarme hats, opens onto a grassy driveway and an honor courtyard that extends in front of the main living quarters. Two other lateral entrances provide access to the outbuildings. The estate was owned by the Lemarchand des Lingeries family for more than a century, from 1745 to 1877. It consists of a main building constructed in the 18th century, extended by a wing. Nestled in its garden, it rises three levels under the roof and is topped with a pavilion roof of flat tiles in orange hues, where four chimney stacks point towards the sky. The rubble is covered with a coating, and the window frames are made of dressed limestone. The large bays, aligned and stacked, are doubled with cross windows in wood. Two turrets, one round and one square, adorn the courtyard side facade. The facade of the wing, built on one level, is made of worked rubble stone and pointed, with red brick cladding framing the windows. The building is topped with a gable roof of slate. At one corner of the wing, on one side and at the back of the manor, there is an outbuilding consisting of a residence and a wellness area. On the exteriors, on one side extend a caretaker's house, a press, and cellars. Opposite are stables, barns, boxes, garages, and sheds. The whole is surrounded by enclosed meadows for horses. The southeast facade of the house faces a garden with a pond and a washhouse.This description has been automatically translated from French.

2 hours and 30 minutes from Paris, in the Nivernais countryside, an authentic manor surrounded by a park of about 3 hectares. A country road lined with a few traditional farms crosses vast meadows occupied by Charolais cattle. Gradually, the property appears: a manor inspired by British architecture set in the midst of a park planted with ancient trees.A gravel flowerbed surrounds the building and allows for vehicle parking. Not far away, an elongated outbuilding faces a well equipped with its wheel. To the south, there is a swimming pool and its technical room. Several Medici vases mark the main entrance. Built entirely on a basement, the manor has three levels. The facades present a polychrome composition with stone and brick, rhythmically adorned with numerous large-paned windows topped with stone lintels. Two balconies animate the elevations, one of which highlights the main entrance extended by a stone staircase with a wrought-iron railing animated by volutes echoed on the balustrades. The intermediate chainings combine brick and stone, similar to the frames of the windows.A tower attached to the building reinforces the verticality of the whole. It retains corner chainings in brick as well as bands that mark the different levels. In the upper parts, the facades are clad in regional bricks pierced with windows topped with small glazed imposts adorned with gables. The slate roofs have been entirely restored. Some are hipped, particularly those of the tower, while others are gabled.

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.

A restored, 19th-century manor, in the south of the Manche area, at the crossroads of three regions. A wrought iron gate in a tall stone wall opens from the street into the property, which boasts great architectural and landscaping coherence. The manor was built in the 19th century and stands in the middle of the grounds. Its sober silhouette is marked by an adroit mixture of Art Nouveau and Anglo-Norman styles. The property’s overall balance is reinforced by the immaculate and harmonious interior decorations and fittings. The three-storey façades made of rough-hewn blocks of granite are punctuated by slight protrusions and many tall, small-paned windows through which light streams into the interior. The steep sloping slate roof is dotted with tall stone chimney stacks. Set back from the manor house, the outbuildings avoid impinging on the property’s unity. The grounds are faithful to the original landscaping design and surround the residence with carefully mown lawns, winding paths and a variety of different trees. A vast meadow extends away from the property towards the surrounding countryside beyond the river. The residence was once home to the marine painter Marin-Marie, who was a solo yachtsman and a talented illustrator. He is famous for his daring transatlantic crossings on board the Arielle yacht and for his highly accurate maritime drawings.

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.