A 270-m² townhouse with a patio and shaded garden in the centre of Le Mans, 10 minutes from the TGV station and 54 minutes from Paris - ref 380592
A 270-m² townhouse with a patio and shaded garden in the centre of Le Mans, 10 minutes from the TGV station and 54 minutes from Paris.
This address, situated 1 hour from the Loire Valley, is located in a residential sector of Le Mans, near to the Jardin des Plantes park designed by Jean-Charles Alphand, famous for having created the Parisian parks of Buttes-Chaumont, Montsouris and Monceau. The Quinconce des Jacobins park, dating from 1792, is ideal for pleasant walks and is made up of a central esplanade surrounded by straight alleys of lime trees. The Jardin de Tessé park is close by, next to the museum of the same name. At the foot of the cathedral in the medieval city of the Plantagenets, the Jacobins market is renowned as one of the most authentic in France. All essential services can be reached on foot, in a green and peaceful environment, amidst the foliage of tall trees that line the property's garden. The city is 200 kilometres from the centre of Paris and well linked to the motorway network. From the railway station, high-speed TGV trains reach Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle in 1 hour 45 minutes, Lyon in 3 hours and Marseille in 5 hours. The Le Mans 24 Hours race circuit is much closer, only 20 minutes away, with its driving school, plus the nearby European horse centre. Two golf courses are 15 minutes away, including the race circuit's golf course. A forest estate 10 minutes away is the veritable green lung of the city and is made up of woods, ponds, gardens and an educational farm.
The residence is set back from an avenue, with a courtyard boasting period style paving in front. An outbuilding is set perpendicularly to the house and includes a garage that can be reached via a remote-controlled door from the street. The courtyard stands behind a tall, finely crafted, wrought-iron gate, flanked by two tall and imposing pillars, next to which there is a pedestrian gate with an entry code system. To the rear, the property is enclosed by tall stone walls and at the end of the plot stands a curtain of foliage made up of tall trees and bamboo. A south-facing patio runs along the entire façade of the house and can be reached directly from the reception rooms. It can also be reached from a utility room. A wooden chalet tucked away behind the vegetation is used for storing the gardening material.
The house was built in the 19th century and is made up of a rectangular main section. It boasts three storeys and a basement. It totals eight main rooms, six of which are spacious bedrooms. The rendered façades are made of rubble stone, bordered by a modillon cornice. The quoins as well as window and door frames are made of made of tuffeau stone. The slate hipped roof is punctuated with dormers and large skylights. There are two entrances to the house from the street: via a flight of steps with a handrail and topped with a wrought-iron awning, or at ground level, via a door next to the kitchen. The residence is in an excellent state of upkeep and combines period decorative elements - straight stripped and Herringbone wood flooring, large windows with casement bolts, iron and cast-iron guard-rails plus a suspended staircase - with further fittings more in line with modern comfort. Light streams in through the wooden framed double-glazed windows on the south side. To the north, they are triple glazed and fitted with anti-shatter glass. The light colour of the interior walls enhances the brightness in the living rooms.
The residence
The ground floor
The single-leaf entrance door leads into an impressively sized hall with a suspended staircase at the end, as well as a door to the cellars. On one side, a double-leaf door leads into a more than 60-m² reception room. The view from this bright room looks out through three large period windows onto the garden. On the other side, a hallway leads to a lavatory, a ...
