A listed historical monument 16th-century townhouse with a private garden, in Burgundy, in the heart of an architecturally and historically rich town
A listed historical monument 16th-century townhouse with a private garden, in Burgundy, in the heart of an architecturally and historically rich town.
This property is situated in Burgundy, in the Yonne Valley, in the historical centre of a town renowned for its architecture, history and medieval as well as classical heritage, scattered through an undulating countryside landscape dotted with famous vineyard slopes. The essential everyday shops are all close by on foot. The municipality also has a hospital as well as school infrastructures. It is 10 minutes away from the A6 motorway, via which Paris and Lyon can be reached. A railway station very nearby means the French capital can be reached in less than two hours via several daily services.
The property stands at the corner of two quiet streets in the old centre and is made up of a townhouse, part of which is listed as a historical monument, and a garden. The main entrance boasts an imposing, finely crafted, wrought iron gate that opens onto a gravelled courtyard. The U-shaped main dwelling is topped with a roof made of flat tiles and has a red brick and limestone façade set slightly back from the street. The central section is punctuated with tall windows fitted with louvred shutters, while a dormer with an arched pediment and flanked with scrolls decorated in the form of acanthus leaves is a reminder of the building's Great Century ornamental heritage. Wrought iron guard-rails, ribbed pilasters, belt courses and quoins also punctuate the façades. Two symmetrical pavilions topped with pyramid-shaped slate roofs stand either side of the central section.
There is a second entrance through a secure door and a carriage gate, equipped with motor-driven jacks, leading to the inner courtyard paved with bricks, where one vehicle can be parked. Lastly, the entrance to the garage is via a cosy, small square, allowing discrete access to the property. After the patio, there is also a garden.
The townhouse
The ground floor
The entrance hall leads to the reception rooms through moulded wooden double-leaf doors, emphasised by carved door frames. To the left, there is a vast lounge with a fireplace and herringbone wooden flooring, next to which there is a study located in the western pavilion. The stairwell and central corridor running through the house, between the patio and inner courtyard, can be found opposite. To the right, the dining room, boasting a white tiled wood-burning stove with burnished brass elements, is followed by a multi-purpose room which leads into the eastern pavilion. The terracotta tiles with slate taco tiling, picture rail mouldings, cornices and ceiling roses pay witness to the decorative splendour of 19th-century bourgeois interiors. From the central corridor opposite the dining room, a raised hallway with a stone step leads to a lavatory and a large, dual aspect, renovated kitchen as well as a further room that opens onto the inner courtyard.
The upstairs
At the top of the wide, winding, wooden staircase, opposite the central landing there is a corridor that leads, to the right, to two bedrooms, both with fireplaces and one with a walk in wardrobe, and to the left to a recently refitted bathroom, a lounge with a fireplace opening into an office, which in turn leads to a vast room used as a bedroom. To the left of the landing, there are also a lavatory and a bedroom with an en suite shower room, followed by a laundry room. On the top level, the attic space has a surface of approximately 96 m², boasts an imposing roof frame and is situated above the central section. It possesses plenty of potential for conversion.The outbuildings
The garage
The garage is located to the rear of the property and can be discretely reached from a small and peaceful ...
