A listed 17th-century house with guesthouses and a garden designed by the famous landscape architect Jacques Wirtz, 10 minutes from Normandy's CĂ´te d'
A listed 17th-century house with guesthouses and a garden designed by the famous landscape architect Jacques Wirtz, 10 minutes from Normandy's Côte d'Albâtre coastline.
Normandy's Pays de Caux coastal plateau is an enchanting bucolic backd-rop between the cities of Rouen, Dieppe and FĂ©camp. It is a patchwork of fields, forests and coastlines. This picture-postcard environment, perfect for walks with its countless footpaths and viewpoints with sea vistas, is home to some of France's most beautiful villages. Yvetot train station, on the rail line from Paris to Le Havre, is 30 minutes away, as is the A29 motorway, which takes you to Le Havre and Deauville. Rouen is less than an hour away by car. Paris is around two hours away. And the seaside resort of Veulettes-sur-Mer is nearby. You can easily sail to England from Dieppe and Le Havre. The property lies just outside a vibrant village with a primary school and a lower middle school, as well as shops for everyday needs.
Just outside the village, a broad wooden gate and paved drive lead to a vast space. Two guesthouses and a garage stand on one side. The main dwelling and its extension stand on the other side. The grand house is typical of noble Norman dwellings from the mid-17th century. South-facing and rectangular in shape, it has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the tall roof space. The building is crowned with a hipped slate roof with six dormers. The elevations are made of brick. Red brickwork forms the quoins, cornices and window and door surrounds. The facade has five bays. On one side, there is a 19th-century brickwork extension. It has a two-level section with a three-slope roof, followed by a single-storey wing with a roof space. This wing houses a swimming pool. The garden was designed by the famous Belgian landscape architect Jacques Wirtz in the early 2000s. Wirtz is known for his work on two Parisian gardens: the Jardin du Carrousel garden in front of the Louvre Museum and the garden of the Élysée Palace. The property's garden extends beyond the buildings, which it links together with paved paths, some of which are shaded. This magnificent outdoor space offers striking views.
The Crown Prosecutor's house, the main dwelling
The ground floor
The entrance hall is in the extension's two-level section. It has a floor of old square tiles. On one side, it connects to a corridor where a timber staircase leads upstairs. On the other side, it connects to a lounge with pale oak panelling and a broad fireplace of sculpted stone, brightened up with natural light from windows on both sides of the room. A door hides stairs that take you down to a cellar. The hallway links the house to the extension with the swimming pool. From the corridor, you can reach the kitchen and dining room. A lounge and an office, originally a bedroom with an alcove, lie beyond them. The floors have pale tiles patterned with black square inserts. Other floors have chevron parquet. The edifice's 18th-century decorative features are listed for their historical interest. The walls are adorned with floor-to-ceiling wooden panelling like that of the main chateaux in Normandy's Pays de Caux province.
The first floor
On the first floor, wood strip flooring extends across the rooms. Mouldings and concave-strip edgings frame the ceilings. A landing leads to an antechamber and the main bedroom, which has walls of floor-to-ceiling wooden panelling in the same style as that of the ground-floor panelling. Beside a fireplace of sculpted stone, steps hidden behind a panel lead to a bathroom and lavatory. The antechamber connects to two other bedrooms, including one with a stone fireplace beneath a large mirror. These bedrooms have full bathrooms. The walls are embellished with mouldings and adorned with fabrics.
The second floor
The second floor has ...
