A 19th century mansion house and outbuildings with a courtyard and walled parkland, in a residential area of Angers - ref 734013
A 19th century mansion house and outbuildings with a courtyard and walled parkland, in a residential area of Angers.
The private mansion is set in a residential area of Angers, on the corner of two streets. The first street leads to an entrance gate that opens onto a courtyard at the front of the dwelling, while the second leads to a second gate that opens onto the parkland and outbuildings to the rear. Place Lafayette, where two major markets are held each week, is a 5-minute walk away. The TGV station is 10 minutes away, with around ten daily return trips to the capital taking 1.5 hours. The town centre is a 20-minute walk away. Other remarkable buildings stand in the shelter of their walled gardens in the immediate vicinity.
Set back from the street and on a north-east-south-west axis, the private mansion is preceded by a courtyard, accessed through a wrought iron gate lined with a pedestrian door and extended by a wrought iron gate. The other gate on the parkland side provides access to a driveway that runs along the rear façade and leads to the former stables. Built in the 19th century out of tufa stone on a hard stone base, the dwelling has four storeys, including a cellar and an attic. The whole building has a four-sloped slate roof and large central dormer windows at the front and rear. The façades are emblematic of the composite architecture of the period. The style is troubadour-like at the front, while the rear is a more sober and classic. The overall decoration is rich, with mouldings, bosses and modillioned cornices lined with a frieze of stylised scallop shells. The courtyard façade is flanked by turrets topped with tall pepperbox roofs, and the entrance door, in the centre, is topped by a rounded balcony with a stone balustrade rail. An extension was added to the east gable at a later date. A passageway running along the west gable links the courtyard and the garden. The parkland is enclosed by walls.
The private mansion
The ground floor
The ground floor is raised and is reached by a flight of stone steps. The entrance hall leads to a study, a double lounge and a hallway. This leads to a staircase to the upper floors, an outside toilet, a linen room and a kitchen and utility room. The living room communicates with a dining room, which also opens onto the hallway. The entrance has black and white chequered tiles. The other rooms have English, herringbone or Hungarian-style parquet flooring. Fireplaces are set against the walls of each of the reception rooms. The ones in the study and sitting room are marble, while the one in the other sitting room is wooden with a Directoire overmantel. The one in the dining room is made of tufa stone and was taken from a manor house in Anjou. French windows open onto the street. From the dining room, a stone staircase with a handrail leads down to the garden. A series of cellars occupy the basement, including the boiler room and the wine cellar.
The first floor
Four bedrooms, two with marble fireplaces, are arranged around a landing. One adjoins a toilet in the tower, while another has an anteroom and a shower room. The floors are oak parquet. The French window in the landing opens onto a balcony, while those of the two bedrooms on the street side have balustrades. Toilets are located between the ground and first floors.
The second floor
The second floor, under the rafters, also has four bedrooms, one of which has a second bedroom and a shower room. Toilets are located between the first and second floors. The outbuildingsoutbuildings The buildings are brick and tufa stone with slate roofs. The former stables are two storeys high. The former grooms' quarters are upstairs. Another adjoining building houses a laundry and a former kennel.
