luxury mill for sale Ferrières-sur-Sichon, France

A former mill to be renovated, with a guest’s house, meadows, parkland and a pond in more than 5 hectares of grounds, in the Charolais area in Burgundy.. The property can be reached via three separate entrances from the country road or communal lane that run alongside it. At the entrance, a guests’ house stands before the former mill, which is the main dwelling, located on the banks of the stream. The outbuildings, nestled among the foliage away from view of the other edifices, complete the property. The land, through which a stream runs, is spread over more than 5 hectares around the buildings and is made up of a former vegetable garden, undergrowth, a pond and meadows. The mill has stood here for some time. In bygone days, it was surrounded by vast ponds, one upstream and one downstream, whose presence was recorded in the 19th century on the Napoleonic land registry. Its vocation initially predisposed it as a public place and point of passage, though its layout and architecture developed over time up to the 1960s, when it underwent its most recent restoration, transforming it into a family home and leisure residence.

This 1718 water mill, with water rights recognized by the DDT, comprises a former 1835 farmhouse currently run as a B&B (clef verte) and two outbuildings. The buildings have been partially renovated (roof, windows and bedrooms). This charming property is located at the intersection of two streams, and benefits from 4 hectares of lush parklands and meadows, with a palm grove and a cleaned-out pond to fill. ECD : C/A Price HAI : 495.000 € (Price net seller 466.981 € - Fees 6% payable by the purchaser Property presented by Marie PROVOTELLE (EI) : +33 (0)6.86.92.67.77 - [email protected]. Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available at www.georisques.fr

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A unique, 18th-century mill, with a fully restored house, outbuildings, more than 55 hectares of grounds and a 16-hectare fishing lake, in the countryside of the former Nivernais province. The property stretches over 55 hectares on either side of a vast, approximately 16-hectare lake through which flows the River Cressonne. This water mirror forms the natural crossroads of the estate, around which the different buildings are set. A drive winds through the grounds up to a two-storey, fully restored manor house with a cellar. The limewash rendered façades are dotted with regularly shaped windows on either side of an elegant south facing entrance that can be reached via a central, double-flighted set of stone steps. To the north, the main entrance onto the garden level stands opposite the former pigsty, a witness to the estate’s rural past. The edifice is topped by a sober, dark, slate roof. A former barn stands slightly set back to the northwest. The mill building stands below the house, to the south. Its red brick façades reflect in the water of the lake on whose shores it stands. It was constructed as a grain mill and previously figured among the Nièvre area’s many water-powered buildings, whose activity was gradually abandoned with the rise of industrialisation. Its distinctive feature is its roof frame like an upturned ship’s hull. The structure is made up of light pieces of flat wood assembled using an ingenious wedge system and did not require the use of large lifting machines. It is covered with small, flat terracotta tiles that are typical of the region. This type of roof frame, known in France as a ‘Philibert Delorme’ roof frame after the architect whose technique became widespread in the 16th century, is directly inspired by the shape of a ship’s hull and enabled the entirety of the attic space to be used for storage of commodities. The waterwheel is no longer in place but it is still possible to see the tailrace and the where the water previously passed.