luxury mills for sale Côte-d'Or, France

In the Ouche valley, 20 minutes from Dijon, A converted mill with a pool and 1.4 ha grounds. Dated '1790' on a dressed-stone block and recorded on the Cassini map, the mill was acquired in 1834 by the Côte-d'Or departmental authority to regulate the water intake for lock 38 of the Canal de Bourgogne. A private buyer acquired it in 1984 as a ruin and rebuilt it entirely between 1986 and 1989, in a contemporary interpretation of rural Burgundian architecture, using the mill's original stones. Two dressed-stone wings on an L-plan, each under a gabled flat-tile roof, form a house of approximately 420 m² of living area; a pavilion-roofed turret marks their junction. To the north, a carriage gate opens onto a courtyard serving two independent entrances and the garages. Beyond the gate, the road disappears behind trees and the sound of water. Open to the south with no overlooking, a covered terrace runs the full length of the facade, leading onto grounds planted with mature trees and edged by the Ouche. To the south-west, the river forks into two arms around a grassed island of 4,630 m², reached by a footbridge. To the north-west, the waterfall — a remnant of the original mill mechanism — fills the site with a permanent murmur. The grounds hold a 12 m × 6 m pool with a shelter roofed in glazed polychrome geometric tiles in the Burgundian tradition, its structure in exposed timber framing, and an open barn of some 60 m² under matching roofing.

A restored 18th-century mill, outbuildings and grounds covering more than 5 hectares, near Flavigny, in the Ozerain Valley, in the Côte-d'Or. Accessible from the village or the county road via two country lanes, the property slopes down towards the Ozerain, whose course dictated the mill’s orientation. The main channel and the lower channel, which are now dry and fed solely by rainwater runoff, display the site’s hydraulic layout. The complex is arranged around a courtyard, flanked on either side by the bread oven and the north-western end of the house, with a wooden gate in the middle. The barn, set at right angles to the stables and the sheepfold, encloses the courtyard below. Extending from the main dwelling, the open, double-vaulted barn connects the house to the dovecote. Beyond the courtyard, the land slopes down towards a strip of meadows and heathland, which stretches along the Ozerain for over 5 hectares. The main building has a total floor area of approximately 260 m², divided into two separate flats. A thorough restoration was carried out using traditional materials and techniques, whilst preserving the authenticity of the building’s layout and original features: reconstructed roof structures and masonry, natural hemp insulation, underfloor heating and double-glazed windows.