A stately country house, with grounds and a swimming pool, on the outskirts of Burgundy's Puisaye region, two hours from Paris - ref 259454
A stately country house, with grounds and a swimming pool, on the outskirts of Burgundy's Puisaye region, two hours from Paris.
In the north of the Nièvre department, the property is located in a hamlet on the outskirts of a village, the latter of which contains all shops for daily life, including some upscale ones, while Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, the largest town in the area, is only a stone's throw away.
In addition, the town of Clamency with its SNCF train station, accessible in thirty minutes by car, provides service to the Paris-Bercy train station in two hours, whereas, the village in which the property is located boasts a 16th-century church built on the site of a Romanesque religious edifice, several vestiges of which still remain.
Included on the supplementary list of historical monuments in 1926, this church is the pride and joy of the local inhabitants, while a windmill, dating from the same era, has also been restored according to standard practices and returned to its former appearance with its sails, pivoting wooden roof and grinding mechanism.
Multiple roads crisscross this rolling and verdant countryside in order to access the hamlet populated by a few homes as well as the property for sale, while the manor house, built in 1870 and accessible via a drive, features three storeys, including one under the eaves.
As for its main façade, facing west and organised into five symmetrical bays, it is cadenced by many large-paned windows safeguarded, on the first two floors, with solid wooden shutters, whereas the garden level stands out from the upper storeys thanks to ornately sculpted guardrails as well as a moulded and painted wooden door, which is used as the main entrance.
In addition, white ashlar stone quoins provide a nice counterpoint to the dwelling's plaster-coated stone or brick exteriors, while its slate Mansard roof, redone in 2020, features dormers, several chimneys and a weather vane.
Facing east, the dwelling's rear exterior, overlooks grounds with a variety of different shrubs and a swimming pool, whereas a stone staircase provides access to a stone patio that communicates with a scullery, designed with practicality in mind, which then gives on to a workshop.
With all the living areas located on the garden level, the upstairs floor includes the dwelling's four bedrooms and their shared shower room, the top level contains a convertible attic space, while, next to the dwelling, a small stone and tile building, festooned in wisteria, features a straight exterior stone staircase that provides upstairs access.
The Manor House
The garden-level floor
The dual-aspect entryway, illuminated by the glass fanlights over the two sets of double doors opening to the east and west, boasts original octagonal terracotta floor tiles and a central, straight staircase, featuring an orb at the base of its bannister as well as an initial polished stone step followed by a flight of oak stairs to the upstairs level.
As for the entryway, it first gives on to a large, dual-aspect living room, flooded in light thanks to four double-glazed windows overlooking the garden to the east and the surrounding nature to the west, while a massive oak ceiling beam, colour-coordinated with the room's straight-plank parquet floor, highlights the latter and a marble fireplace provides an eye-catching element for this stately room.
On the other side of the entryway, a small sitting room, facing west, boasts a central ceiling rose as well as wainscoting, and has conserved such eye-catching details as its geometrically patterned, black and white tile floor and marble fireplace. From here a door gives directly on to a kitchen with cupboards, while its terracotta floor tiles and vestiges of a former fireplace, today replaced by a wood-burning stove, create a cosy and vintage ambiance.
In addition, an ancient door, ...
