luxury mas with reception room for sale Languedoc Roussillon, France

Between Montpellier and Nîmes, a former agricultural estate of 7 hectares, with a 17th-century farmhouse, a master house, outbuildings, and a 19th-century winery. Less than 1 km from Quissac, the 7-hectare estate extends to the east and west around four buildings grouped into a private hamlet: a winery, a large farm known as "le grand mas", a dovecote, and the winemaker's residence. Access to the property is via the road serving the old agricultural courtyard. The master house, which is reached through the countryside, is located opposite this departmental road, facing the vineyards and woods. Strongly reflecting its past viticultural activity through the articulation of its elements, the property has evidently experienced several destinies. An artisanal silk production activity may have preceded viticulture before land division halted it. Other uses followed – thus the old winery has today been transformed into workshops and reception rooms. On the foothills of the Cévennes, the construction of the buildings, often austere, obeys solely the laws dictated by labor and rural habitation over time. The construction periods differ from one element to another and primarily oscillate between the beginning and the end of the 19th century, with architectural interventions additionally aimed at unifying the whole in the 20th and 21st centuries. The master house, built at the end of the 19th century, has curiously adopted the model of local magnaneries, modest and largely open to the south. The winery, of the same period, was renovated after the roof of the central part collapsed. The "grand mas", which was undoubtedly a rural dwelling with its few vaulted lower rooms, provides an evident example of construction carried out on earlier remains, probably from the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century. The dovecote, made of red bricks, built on the roof of dependency used for living, dates from the early 20th century and surrounds a series of small adjoining houses currently used as rental residences. The whole, whose attraction is notably enhanced by the preservation of the natural environment from various damages, offers an interesting testimony of daily life in Cévennes viticulture. Its contemporary rehabilitation, unfinished in some places, has granted it a certain homogeneity.This description has been automatically translated from French.