A chateau, ideal for a family, with outbuildings et grounds of some 14 ha, on the outskirts of a village in the Sologne countryside, 1.5 hrs from Pari
A chateau, ideal for a family, with outbuildings et grounds of some 14 ha, on the outskirts of a village in the Sologne countryside, 1.5 hrs from Paris.
Located in the Loiret department, the property is set back from the historical village of Ouzouer-sur-Trézée, with a population of just over 1,000 inhabitants, which includes a 13th-century church, small shops for everyday needs as well as a few restaurants and hotels that help energise local life.
As for the closest cities of Briare and Gien, they both have an SNCF train station that provide service to Paris's Bercy station in less than two hours, whereas the region features many tourist attractions, from religious edifices to chateaus or natural sites, such as the Briare Aqueduct Bridge, the Chateau de Sully-sur-Loire and the city of Orléans, a little more than an hour away by car.
For three hundred years, the chateau was part of a former fiefdom belonging to the family that had the current building constructed in 1828, while, in 1855, the village's mayor conducted an excavation of the site and found Gallo-Roman vestiges, pottery shards as well as a large quantity of money dating from the 1st and 4th centuries.
From the village's entrance, the chateau is accessible via a small country road, which provides access to a long drive, lined by plane trees, followed by a lane through the forest's foliage that gradually leads to the chateau overlooking its grounds planted with tall trees.
With three storeys and a slate roof, the central structure is flanked by two lateral pavilions, while, facing east, the main façade is cadenced by small-paned windows, safeguarded by solid wood shutters on the ground floor and louvred versions on the first. As for the front door, it stands out thanks to its fanlight, whereas each pavilion, projecting slightly forward and topped with a quadrilobate dormer, highlights the chateau's stately quoins. Built out of stone from Burgundy, the chateau's exteriors as well as its gutters were restored in 1998.
In addition, outbuildings and an interior courtyard are located to one side of the chateau, while several beehives are set slightly back from here. Planted mainly with multi-century trees, the grounds, bordered by a trout-stocked river, also feature an orchard and immense meadows dotted with wildflowers, whereas a circular gravel area provides vehicle parking.
The Chateau
The ground floor
The chateau's entrance hall immediately conveys the dwelling's main architectural traits: a winding oak staircase with a balustrade and massive posts, a fireplace topped with a moulded white stone mantel, visible ceiling beams as well as original terracotta floor tiles, while this level also includes a study with views of the grounds and a large, sunny drawing room with many windows, including glass double doors that open on to the chateau's front steps, crown moulding, a central ceiling rose, as well as an immense fireplace with a splayed hearth - extended by a flagstone - made out of small local bricks and crowned with a marble mantel.
Near the staircase, a door provides access to a vaulted cellar from the 8th century, whereas the kitchen, fitted with oak cupboards, abuts the dining room, the latter of which features visible ceiling beams, original terracotta floor tiles, an operational hearth, more rustic in its appearance thanks to its stone manteltree, walls combining bricks and pointed stone and a separate door providing direct access to the chateau's front steps.
The first floor
A long hallway leads to four bedrooms, which are, in a nod to traditional interior design practices, differentiated from one another thanks to their distinctive colours: the first, decorated in shades of orange and abutting a shower room, features walls clad in Japanese fabric, while its original windows have preserved their espagnolette locking ...
