A private mansion, dating from the 17th to 19th centuries, in a Saumurois city, popular with tourists - ref 355631
A private mansion, dating from the 17th to 19th centuries, in a Saumurois city, popular with tourists.
The property is located in the middle of a lively Saumurois city, known for its vineyards, gastronomy and heritage, while all shops, local services, weekly green markets as well as cultural and athletic facilities are accessible on foot.
As for the banks of the Loire River and their picturesque villages, they are less than 20 minutes away by car, just like Saumur and its train station, which provides service to Paris in one hour and 40 minutes, while the city of Angers can be reached in 40 minutes.
Off of a side street from the downtown area, a large oak gate, framed by two pilasters, opens on to a courtyard facing northwest, while a second, adjacent entrance provides easy access for pedestrians. As for the three-storey dwelling, built in the 17th century, it features partially plastered tuffeau stone exteriors, which provide glimpses of the limestone used in its quoins and window/door surrounds.
Jutting out into the courtyard, a quadrangular tower topped with a three-sided roof, which is, in turn, punctuated by dormer windows, houses a grand staircase, whereas, to the east, the dwelling is extended by an edifice, built out of falun stone in the 19th century and crowned with a slate roof cadenced by three dormers with triangular pediments, as well as another perpendicular wing to the west.
Lastly, the dwelling's outbuildings are laid out around the courtyard and include a workshop, a two-storey garage and four storerooms, while the property also includes a series of cellars.
The Private Mansion
The ground floor
An initial entrance hall provides access, on either side, to the dwelling's living areas, which are decorated with wood panelling, finely sculpted fireplaces and visible ceiling beams. On one side, a dual-aspect living room with oak mitred Herringbone hardwood floors, opens on to an adjacent dining room, followed by a kitchen, while, on the other side, a second sitting room, with hexagonal terracotta floor tiles, communicates with a library, the latter of which includes two distinct spaces, separated by a semi-circular archway. The more private of the two features a large tuffeau stone fireplace and gives on to the 19th-century wing where two bedrooms with a shower room are within immediate proximity to a separate entrance.
In addition, from the tower, another entrance hall, with stone tile floors, provides access to the second sitting room, the library as well as a grand tuffeau stone staircase, with a central open newel and a stone balustrade, which ascends to the dwelling's upper levels.
The first floor
A landing provides access, on one side, to a recently renovated shower room and, on the other, to four adjacent bedrooms with terracotta tile floors, plaster-coated walls and visible ceiling beams, while two of these bedrooms, with dual-aspect windows, each come with stone fireplaces, and a walkway communicates with a laundry room, a bathroom and a wardrobe.
The attic
This level includes a bedroom with a bathroom as well as a storage room, and provides access to an attic with insulated floors as well as visible chestnut rafters.The OutbuildingsThe dwelling's garden level features a furnace room, a workshop, a storage room and a lavatory, while on the northern side of the courtyard are three storerooms for the garden's maintenance equipment, irrigation system and the gate's machinery. Last, but not least, the indoor garage, set back from the rest of the buildings, is large enough to accommodate two vehicles.The GardenWith the water for the garden's automated irrigation system supplied by a well, the formal courtyard is ...
