A specially designed house from the 1970s with 3.2 hectares of grounds with a stream, tucked away in France's Centre Val de Loire region - ref 438618
A specially designed house from the 1970s with 3.2 hectares of grounds with a stream, tucked away in France's Centre Val de Loire region.
The property is nestled in the south-west of France's Indre-et-Loire department, in the Centre Val de Loire region. It is tucked away in an unspoilt natural backdrop, halfway between the towns of Chambourg-sur-Indre and Loches. The surrounding area is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Widely wooded and gently undulating, the local region is renowned for its wealth of built heritage, but also for its beautiful natural heritage. A local forest and the royal town of Loches with its famous market are only a 10-minute drive away. And the city of Tours is 45 minutes away. From its high-speed train station you can get to Paris in around 1 hour and 15 minutes by rail.
A country road leads to the property. A forest drive then takes you to the house. The edifice was built in 1977 for the current owner. It stands in the middle of a clearing. The dwelling looks across a small valley to a stream and meadow lower down. It faces east and west. It has a basement, a ground floor and a first floor. Its main entrance door is at the north-east corner, where a gravelled space is designed for vehicles to park in. The rooms inside are laid out around a central patio that forms an opening of natural light and, in summer, provides refreshing coolness. The elevations are coated with rendering. The roofing is made up of four asymmetrical slopes of slate tiles. In the basement, there is a garage, a workshop, a wine cellar and a pantry. In front of the reception rooms, there is a terrace that looks out at a grassy garden with shrubs. The whole estate covers more than 3.2 hectares of unbroken land. A stream runs through the grounds. Two little bridges stretch across this stream.
The house
The ground floor
Beneath an overhang of the roof, an aluminium door leads into an entrance hall with a tiled floor. From here, a staircase leads up to the first floor and another flight of stairs takes you down to a lounge, a dining room and a kitchen. The reception rooms also have tiled floors. From the lounge, a door leads to a garden-level bedroom with a bathroom and lavatory. The floors are rug-carpeted. On either side, the entrance hall connects to an office, a cloakroom with a lavatory and a corridor connecting to two bedrooms and a tiled bathroom. One of the bedrooms has a rug-carpeted floor and the other has parquet flooring. Wallpaper adorns the walls. From the corridor, a second flight of stairs leads up to the first floor and down to a master bedroom and then to the basement.
The first floor
The flight of stairs leading up from the entrance hall takes you to a landing. This landing connects to a bedroom, a bathroom with a lavatory, a mezzanine reading room and a linen room. The floors are rug-carpeted, except in the bathroom, which has a tiled floor. A glazed wall that faces the patio bathes the lounge in natural light. The second flight of stairs leads up to a landing that connects to a bedroom, a shower room, a lavatory and a games room. Rugs or vinyl cover the floors. A large window that faces the patio bathes the games room in natural light. All the walls are painted or wallpapered.
The basement
The basement extends beneath much of the house and offers a 100m² floor area. It includes a garage in which two or three vehicles can be parked and a workshop with a technical installations space. On one side, a few steps lead to a door that takes you into a stone-vaulted wine cellar. Next, there is a pantry with a tap. Two flights of stairs lead up inside the home. One takes you to the kitchen and the other to the garden-level bedroom and then the first floor.
The groundsAround the house, the land is ...
