A manor with outbuildings and a 15th-century chapel, listed as a Historical Monument, with 10 hectares of land, between the Touraine and Berry regions
A manor with outbuildings and a 15th-century chapel, listed as a Historical Monument, with 10 hectares of land, between the Touraine and Berry regions.
The property is located in a hamlet in the western part of the former Touraine province, now the Indre department, part of the Centre-Val de Loire region and only a stone's throw away from the Loire Valley, a Unesco world heritage site, with its plethora of chateaus. The neighbouring town and villages include many shopkeepers and artisans, while the Beauval Zoo is 25 minutes away, the cities of Tours and Blois are 1 hour and 15 minutes away and the capital is 3 hours away via the A10 motorway.
A wide gravel drive leads to the property's entrance: an arched carriage door with a wooden gate flanked by the chapel's gable end on one side and a defensive tower on the other. In dressed and exposed tuffeau stone, it is topped with a gabled flat-tile roof and opens onto a vast gravel courtyard and lawns decorated with flowerbeds, around which the different dwellings are located. An initial L-shaped building is flanked by the defensive tower and includes a reception space, a holiday cottage and bedrooms. Its gabled roofs are covered in flat tiles and punctuated by hayloft dormer windows with triangular pediments. A second building, with a gabled flat-tile roof, two gabled dormer windows and two hayloft dormer windows - all four with triangular pediments - abuts the chapel and is extended by the manor.
The third building, a square-shaped former dovecote, has been converted into a holiday cottage, built over two levels under an attic space, with a hipped slate roof. Following on from there is an individual cottage, with a three-sided roof covered in flat tiles and adorned with a hayloft dormer window with a triangular pediment. Its stone masonry façades are cadenced by different size windows, which are then surrounded by dressed tuffeau stone. In addition, the property also contains two outbuildings: one is located along the edge of the grounds, while the other is surrounded by woodland. Landscaped grounds spread out all around the buildings, with a small pond behind the manor and an aboveground swimming pool on pylons facing the fields and woods.
The ManorWith one floor and converted attic space, the building faces south and has a flat-tile roof as well as exposed stone façades that are cadenced by small-paned windows, glass doors as well as a solid wooden door. Understated, the façades' décor is concentrated around its dressed tuffeau stone quoins as well as window and door surrounds. The front door, adorned with a small-paned window, is located in the middle of the façade.
The ground floor
After a few steps, the front door opens onto a dual-aspect double vestibule, which includes a staircase that leads upstairs as well as a lavatory. On one side, it provides access to a vast living room with a stone fireplace and exposed stone walls, followed by a dining room. With carved wooden panels on three of its walls, this room also contains a wooden fireplace with a cast-iron stove and a door that leads to the kitchen with a utility room. On the other side of the vestibule is a small sitting room followed by a bedroom with a wardrobe and bathroom with lavatory. Hexagonal and square terracotta tiles cover the floors in the living areas, while black and white tiles decorate the floors of the bedroom. The ceiling's wooden beams have been left visible throughout this level.
The attic
The landing leads to a bedroom with a shower room and lavatory, followed by a hallway, which leads to two more bedrooms, each with their own shower room and lavatory, while a second hallway leads to a final bedroom with a bathroom and lavatory. The floors on this level are covered in straight hardwood and painted white, while the ceiling's wooden beams have been left ...
