In Seine-et-Marne, within a landscaped and wooded park with two dew ponds, A family home and outbuildings - ref 383484
In Seine-et-Marne, within a landscaped and wooded park with two dew ponds, A family home and outbuildings.
The property occupies an ideal position in eastern Île-de-France, at the centre of Seine-et-Marne, just 60 km from Paris and approximately 30 km from each of the département's two most emblematic towns: medieval Provins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and imperial Fontainebleau.
Verneuil-l'Étang station (5 km) and Mormant station (3 km) are both served by the Transilien line, with hourly trains to Paris-Est taking 45 minutes and one hour respectively, including at weekends. Both villages offer a full range of shops and supermarkets. The forest of Villefermoy is approximately 10 minutes by road.
The village, though neither listed nor historic, has retained its picturesque character.
A two-leaved wrought-iron gate, flanked by kennels and bird shelters, opens onto a first dew pond and leads into a cobbled courtyard extending into the grounds beyond. To the left stands a large family house, oriented north-south and rising over three levels above two cellars that occupy the full footprint of the building. Built in the 19th century in the Brie style, its rendered stone facades have a dressed-stone plinth course and numerous small-paned rectangular windows fitted with painted wooden louvred shutters. The gabled roof, well maintained, is clad in old flat tiles, surmounted by two brick chimney stacks and punctuated by a few roof lights. The main house's ground floor contains the principal reception rooms: two drawing rooms, a dining room, a games room and a kitchen; the first level has eight bedrooms; the second, converted within the roof space, provides six rooms for use as summer or additional bedrooms.
To the right of the gate, fronting the street, stand outbuildings comprising a garage and storeroom, party-wall with the neighbours' barn - a structure with brick-and-stone walls under a gabled roof of flat interlocking tiles.
The landscaped, wooded grounds are enclosed by walls and contain two dew ponds, around which an impressive variety of fruit trees grows alongside other plant species and shrubs. At the far end, in the wooded section, the second dew pond adjoins an open stone barn roofed with interlocking tiles, its enclosure and a remnant of old vines. A small tool shelter stands nearby.
The houseThe main entrance is reached by a short flight of steps with a wrought-iron handrail leading to a small terrace. A glazed double door with wrought-iron grilles and a fanlight above opens onto the interior. A secondary glazed service door is set at the right-hand end of the rear elevation. The west gable wall faces the dew pond between the street and the cobbled courtyard. To the east, the gable wall is served by a stone staircase giving onto a small terrace with views over the wooded garden.
The ground floor
Three French windows define this level. The main entrance, on the south side, opens into a large, light-filled drawing room with two small-paned casement windows. A functional black marble fireplace anchors the room, its floor laid with original hexagonal terracotta tiles. Beyond, a smaller drawing room shares the same features. A dining room follows, also floored in terracotta tiles and well lit by two similar windows.
A central corridor serving all ground-floor rooms leads to the kitchen, a large back kitchen used for storage, a bathroom, a lavatory, a windowed storage cupboard and two half-landings giving onto two staircases: a stately oak staircase on the kitchen side, and one with oak treads and a wrought-iron handrail ascending from the study. The kitchen retains its original character, its authenticity heightened by a period stone sink. The room at the rear, currently a games room, would readily serve as a study or ground-floor bedroom: dual-aspect, with a French window opening onto ...
