A stone house with outbuildings and 46 hectares of wooded grounds with lakes, by the River Loire in France's bucolic Nièvre department, two hours from
A stone house with outbuildings and 46 hectares of wooded grounds with lakes, by the River Loire in France's bucolic Nièvre department, two hours from Paris.
The property lies in the north-west of France's beautiful Nièvre department, in western Burgundy. It is set back from a village with 800 inhabitants. This village on the River Loire already existed back in the Merovingian era. Today, restaurants, hotels and shops for everyday needs bring the village to life. There is a train station a few minutes away from the house. From there, you can get to central Paris in two hours by rail. And via the A77 motorway nearby, you can reach Paris directly in two hours by car. A few kilometres away, the towns of La Charité-sur-Loire, Pouilly-sur-Loire and Sancerre combine built heritage with a beautiful natural backdrop. You can discover the surroundings on foot, by bicycle or by canoe or kayak. Notably, there are vineyards and the Val de Loire nature reserve. The Camino de Santiago pilgrims' way also runs through the region.
Country lanes lead to the property's entrance gate. This gate takes you onto a drive lined with oaks that stretches one kilometre up to the house. Trees reign here. The wooded areas range from copses to mature woods with many varieties of trees. Their leaves are particularly vivid in colour in autumn, when red, green, yellow and orange tones carpet the ground and when mushroom-pickers are delighted. Moorland covered with heather, ferns and broom add to this unique landscape. The house comes into view far away, by a lake, nestled in the heart of this calm, bucolic backdrop. The dwelling, with its elevations of dressed rubble stone, has a ground floor and a first floor. It is crowned with a roof of flat tiles. Behind it, outbuildings made of stone, brick or timber stand by the lake.
The main houseThe house is square in shape. It is crowned with a hipped roof of flat artisanal tiles from Burgundy, dotted with roof windows. The facade is brought out by quoins of local brick and is punctuated with large windows set in surrounds of ashlar, brick or timber. The number of windows heralds a bright interior. The windows have wooden frames and large panes. Some of them are fitted with shutters.
The ground floor
An entrance hall with wood strip flooring leads to a spacious lounge on one side. This lounge is bathed in natural light from a large window. Exposed oak beams run across the ceiling. The walls are made of exposed stonework or small bricks or are half-timbered. These structural materials bear witness to the house's old age. A floor of broad wood strips extends across the lounge and a stove warms the room up as a complement to the radiators. On the other side of the hallway, there is a bright kitchen fitted with many cupboards. This kitchen is large enough for you to dine in it. An alcove opening leads to a dining room with a fireplace and a floor with original terracotta tiles. The two rooms are filled with natural light from large double-glazed windows. The dining room has a ceiling of exposed joists and beams. The white tone of the walls brings out the authentic oak doorways. One of these doorways leads to a first bedroom, which has the same architectural style with a wall of stonework and small bricks and a ceiling of exposed beams. Back in the dining room, a door leads to a hallway that has been turned into a utility room. Another door leads to a shower room and a lavatory, which have been modernised and have whitened exposed beams that give a certain character to these spaces. A large storage space that you reach from the utility room could be made separate through a separate entrance door that leads into it from outside. This room could be turned into a bedroom or another room for everyday life. A straight staircase leads upstairs.
The upstairs
On the first floor, a ...
