In Mayenne, in a village near Évron A 19th-century Louis-Philippe maison de maître with garden and outbuildings - ref 317320
In Mayenne, in a village near Évron A 19th-century Louis-Philippe maison de maître with garden and outbuildings.
Mayenne, in the Pays de la Loire, combines ancient heritage with a working rural landscape - farmland, stone-built villages, Romanesque churches and abbeys, chateaux, manors and large hunting estates. With a stable local economy, fine property in the region remains within reach.
The maison de maître stands in a small village 5 km from Évron, which offers schools, shops, an active cultural and industrial life, and a station with services to Laval and Le Mans, connecting to the TGV network for Paris. The A81 motorway is around twenty minutes away.
The pedestrian entrance passes through a gateway framed by two granite piers, opening onto a first garden planted with shrubs and box balls and crossed by a drive leading to the house. A second gateway gives vehicular access to the courtyard and outbuildings. To the west, a second garden runs from a terrace through an ornamental area to an orchard. To the north stand several outbuildings, part of which occupy a courtyard separated by a stone wall - the whole extending to just over 2,000 m², carefully maintained throughout. Built in 1846, the main house is a rigorous expression of the Louis-Philippe style: clean lines, symmetrical elevations with rusticated quoins, arched windows, pediments with ornamental tympana, a dentilled cornice and a hipped slate roof.
The maison de maître
The ground floor
Paved in stone from Grez-en-Bouère, the ground floor is accessible from the central entrance hall or the rear garden. To one side, a drawing room is decorated with classical wooden panelling, mouldings, a ceiling rose and a Louis XV-style fireplace in red marble - the grandest room in the house. To the other side, a dining room leads directly to a practical kitchen. A lavatory and access to a cellar are located further along. The cellar, beneath the front section of the house, is accessible from both inside and outside.
The first floor
A single-flight turning staircase in wood, with a wrought-iron handrail and banister, leads to a landing from which three bedrooms, a bathroom and a separate lavatory are reached. The principal bedroom has a dressing room and a shower room. The layout is classical, well-organised and practical.
The second floor
Under the roof, a landing opens on one side to a large bedroom with a shower room and lavatory, and on the other to an attic. In both rooms, original dormers with pointed arches are set into the chimney stacks.The gardenTo the west, a gravelled terrace gives way to an ornamental area of topiaries, shrubs and specimen trees, beyond which lies an orchard of pear, plum, cherry and peach trees and vines, enclosed at the far end by a timber pedestrian gate. An adjacent plot of around 1,200 m², with a former sheep shed, is available separately at €20,000.The outbuildingsBuilt in stone under slate, the outbuildings comprise a garage, a woodstore, a former bread oven, former pigsties now serving as storerooms, and an elegant two-level storehouse at the courtyard entrance, with a combined footprint of approximately 60 m².
