private mansion for sale Dinard, France

A 19th century ship-owner’s manor house with walled grounds, near Saint-Malo, close to the beaches and shops in Saint-Servan. The house stands at a crossroads of several streets. The main entrance, slightly set back from the street, is via an imposing wooden gate with a curved top, framed by granite pillars flanked with guard stones, opening into an inner courtyard. The garden is tucked away behind high stone walls that enclose the rear of the property. It originally had a larger garden. The house, which has remained in the same family since its construction, was built at the beginning of the 18th century for a seafaring family of the Compagnie des Indes, with links to Isle de France, now known as Mauritius. The south-facing edifice has three storeys one of which is in the attic space. The main façade has three vertical rows of openings. The elevations are made of rough-hewn blocks of granite, while the window and door frames are made of dressed granite blocks. The slate hipped roof has three dormer windows topped with pediments and is flanked at each end by two tall chimney stacks, while two smaller chimney stacks stand in the centre. The roof guttering is inserted in a wooden cornice. To the rear, a semi-circular conservatory is topped by a slate roof. To the southeast, at a right angle to the main building and standing against a neighbouring edifice, there is a brick and rubble stone outbuilding topped with a slate roof. Part of it is used for storage and another part has been converted into living space.

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In Dinan, just steps from the historic center, a bourgeois house from the 19th century has been renovated, along with its park of more than 1200 m². The property is surrounded by other old bourgeois homes as well as small apartment buildings. It is bordered by a high stone wall and, on the street side, by a low wall topped with wrought iron grills featuring scrollwork and spear tips. The small gate leads to a south-facing inner courtyard, partly lawned, with a gravel pedestrian path. Built at the end of the 19th century, the house includes a slightly elevated ground floor, topped by a square floor and an attic level. The facade is organized into three bays, one of which is offset, topped by a pavilioned roof. The masonry is made of mixed rubble and dressed granite stone, with carved frames around the openings and horizontal dripstones between the levels. Two tall chimneys are integrated into the gable walls. The entire structure is topped with a four-sided slate roof, with zinc ridges, accentuated by a frieze and wrought iron finials, and pierced by dormer windows with triangular pediments. The pavilion of the offset bay breaks the simplicity of the construction with its very steeply pitched four-sided roof, featuring the same type of dormer window.