A house from the 1990s with a barn, a guesthouse, a swimming pool and a tree-dotted garden, nestled in a calm, leafy, prized neighbourhood near Dijon
A house from the 1990s with a barn, a guesthouse, a swimming pool and a tree-dotted garden, nestled in a calm, leafy, prized neighbourhood near Dijon city centre, Burgundy.
The property lies in France's CĂ´te-d'Or department, in the city of Dijon, Burgundy's capital. Dijon is officially recognised for its remarkable built heritage. The house stands in the south-west of the city, in the Bel-Air district, which is renowned for its lush backd-rop and calm ambience. The dwelling is at once close to the city centre with its shops, amenities and restaurants and close to Dijon's natural surroundings where you can enjoy cycle rides, walks and drives through the vineyards - where you can taste Burgundy's famous fine wines. The city is well connected to France's road network: the A6, A31 and A39 motorways are all nearby. It is also well connected to the rail network: from Dijon's train station, you can quickly get to Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Luxembourg by rail. And you can easily reach Lyon's international airport by car or train too.
The house was built in 1992 by its current owner, here in Dijon's highly sought-after Bel-Air neighbourhood. The main house has a converted basement, a ground floor and a first floor in the roof space. The edifice its crowned with a roof of flat concrete tiles. It is set back from the road, on a 2,048m² plot dotted with trees and flowers. This plot also includes a guesthouse, a barn and a swimming pool.
The main house
The ground floor
You enter the ground floor through a doorway with an entrance door and fixed side panel. You then step into a spacious hallway - an integral part of a vast open-plan space made up of a lounge and kitchen. This open-plan space is bathed in an abundance of natural light from several large-paned windows and glazed doors. The windows are fitted with outdoor wooden shutters. The floor is covered with beautiful stone slabs. Many features here were made by France's finest craftsmen. A double-hearth fireplace that faces two ways gives structure to this extensive room, which has a reading corner and a music corner with an upright piano. The fitted kitchen includes many storage spaces. From the entrance hall, a corridor connects to a bedroom, a shower room and a lavatory.
The upstairs
You reach the first floor from the hallway via a wooden quarter-turn staircase with a timber balustrade and banister. A landing of wood-strip flooring connects to the different spaces on the first floor, including a mezzanine that looks down at the hallway and is filled with natural light from two dormers. Indoor wooden shutters can block out this light if need be. At the end of the mezzanine, there is a nook that could be turned into a bedroom. There are three bedrooms on this floor. They have wood-strip flooring and large roof windows with indoor blinds and outdoor solar-powered shutters. There is also a lavatory and a bathroom with a shower, bath and two single-washbasin units.
The basement
The basement extends beneath the entire house. It has a 2.20-metre ceiling height and has been fully converted. It has an underground section and a garden-level section. You can either enter it from the hallway via a concrete quarter-turn staircase with stone steps and a wrought-iron balustrade or through a backdoor in the house that takes you into the garden-level section of the basement. Down here, there are different rooms, including a games room with cupboards and a tilt window; a utility room with a single-washbasin unit, cupboards and a tilt window; a boiler room with a gas boiler; a lavatory; and a storeroom with a connecting gravelled cellar.
The guesthouseThe guesthouse is a small dwelling with thick stone walls. It is crowned with a roof of flat tiles. The house has been completely ...
