A property designed for events with two reception halls, a convertible barn and 2.5 hectares of grounds with lakes, 15 minutes from the town of Ambois
A property designed for events with two reception halls, a convertible barn and 2.5 hectares of grounds with lakes, 15 minutes from the town of Amboise in France's Loire Valley.
The property lies just north of the River Loire, whose valley is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is nestled in the east of France's Indre-et-Loire department. The village is located 25 minutes from the city of Tours and just four kilometres from an exit on the A10 motorway - so you can get to Paris from the property in only 2 hours and 15 minutes by car. The charming towns of Amboise and Chaumont-sur-Loire are nearby. They draw many tourists. And different forests can easily be reached from the property too, including Amboise forest, Russy forest and Blois forest. These forests are ideal for bucolic strolls among majestic broad-leaved trees and are good for mushroom-picking in the right season. The property is tucked away in a rural backd-rop with a patchwork of woods. This bucolic environment lends itself to long country walks.
A country road runs through fields and forests to the hamlet where the property lies. The edifices here were once farm buildings. But over the course of the centuries they have been converted into dwellings. They include a former tithe barn that dates back to 1570. Indeed, this former tithe barn is a token of the hamlet's origins. The country road first runs alongside a barn and past a vast parking area. It then leads to a gravel drive with a tree-dotted garden on one side and a lake on the other. In the property's inner court, there is a first dwelling on one side and a second dwelling on another side. The former tithe barn extends the latter. This former tithe barn has been converted into a reception hall for 120 people. A few hundred metres away, another drive, closed with an iron gate, runs alongside a lake up to a building with a wooden frame and timber cladding. This building houses a second reception hall. It has an 80-person capacity and includes a kitchen and lavatory. Behind this second reception hall, there are three wooden chalets on a vast lawn. The property is rented out for events and accommodation. Its reservation schedule is usually full, booked up as much for summer gatherings as for end-of-year festivities.
The first dwellingThe first dwelling faces south. It is made up of two sections: a rectangular house with a gabled slate roof adjoins a long building. Its elevations of exposed stonework are punctuated with rectangular windows. In one part, there is exposed timber framing. Brickwork and tuffeau stone form the door and window surrounds of the rectangular house. Travertine forms the surrounds of the long building. The latter's roof is covered with flat tiles and there is a band of slate tiles along the bottom of the roof. There are two dormers on its north side. In front of the house, there is a gravel terrace beside a tree-dotted garden.
The ground floor
From the court, a glazed door leads into a kitchen, which opens out into a dining room. Terracotta tiles cover the floors. The exposed beams have been whitened. A tuffeau-stone fireplace adorns a wall in the kitchen. A passage leads to a lounge. And another passage leads to a hallway with a lavatory and a bathroom fitted with a shower. In the lounge, there are exposed beams. A glazed door leads out to the terrace and garden. A wooden staircase leads upstairs. From the dining room, a door leads to a corridor that connects to a bedroom with a floor of terracotta tiles and a ceiling of exposed beams. This corridor then takes you to a hallway with a metal spiral staircase that leads upstairs.
The upstairs
The wooden staircase in the lounge takes you up to a landing that connects to two bedrooms. One of these bedrooms has a lavatory and a washbasin. They are filled with natural light from windows in the ...
