A 19th-century house with a garden and outbuildings, nestled in Abbeville town centre in northern France's Somme department, two hours from Paris - re
A 19th-century house with a garden and outbuildings, nestled in Abbeville town centre in northern France's Somme department, two hours from Paris.
The property lies 30 minutes from the towns of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Le Crotoy and Fort-Mahon-Plage. It is very close to the River Somme's beautiful bay. It stands on a calm street in the town centre of Abbeville, which is officially recognised for its built heritage. On foot, you can reach shops, a market, restaurants and amenities for everyday needs.
The edifice is set back from the road. You enter the property via a large, finely crafted gate. The house has a main section and two wings. A tall arched tunnel runs through one of its wings, giving access to the back garden and outbuildings. The house was built at the end of the 19th century. It has a converted semi-basement, a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. The facade combines dressed stone with red brickwork. The edifice is crowned with a mansard roof of slate and zinc.
The semi-basementThe semi-basement have been entirely converted. It includes a utility room, a boiler room, a workshop, a wine cellar, a former cold room and a series of storerooms. You reach it through different doors from the front and back gardens or straight from inside the house.
The ground floorThe ground floor is arranged around a hallway, which is embellished with fine stained-glass windows. This hall connects to all the reception rooms. From the hall, a staircase takes you to the upper floors. There is a large dining room that has kept its painted wooden fireplace with a sculpted trumeau panel. The room's richly ornamented ceiling features sumptuous paintwork, mouldings and golden acanthus leaves. From here, two glazed doors lead into a restored conservatory with a 42m² floor area. From this conservatory, you can admire the back garden. Beside the dining room there is a vast lounge with wood strip flooring, a marble fireplace and a ceiling with mouldings. Like the dining room, the lounge connects to the conservatory via a glazed double door. From the lounge, a finely designed door leads into a boudoir, which has been turned into a reading room and office. The fitted kitchen is modern in style and has a scullery.
The first floorA broad corridor connects to six bedrooms and a modern shower room fitted with a two-washbasin unit, a glazed shower unit and a lavatory. Four of the bedrooms look out at the garden. The two others are at the front of the house, above the tall arched tunnel and the staircase that leads up from the hallway. The whole first floor has been renovated masterfully - both technically and decoratively.
The second floorA central corridor, bathed in natural light from a skylight, runs through the second floor. It connects to eight bedrooms, which need to be renovated. These top bedrooms increase the house's potential total number of bedrooms to 14.
The outbuildingsThe outbuildings are tokens of the property's rich past in industry and the automotive sector. Indeed, they once housed an engineering office and the first design workshop of the former French carmaker "Corre La Licorne", which later became simply "La Licorne". This manufacturer produced more than 33,000 vehicles, and more than 200 models, between 1901 and 1949. The first outbuilding needs to be entirely renovated. It is made of red brick. Its elevations display a frieze of enamelled flowers and two allegorical medallions that represent the sciences and the arts respectively. On the ground floor there is a 50m² room with ...
