A renovated town house with a vaulted cellar, 20 minutes from Tours - ref 181490
A renovated town house with a vaulted cellar, 20 minutes from Tours.
The house lies south-east of the city of Tours in France's Centre Val de Loire region. It is nestled in a small town, 20 minutes from Tours. The town is on the River Indre. It has a rich past and offers many shops and amenities. Motorways are conveniently close. And from the town's train station, you can quickly get into Tours by rail. From the high-speed train station in Tours, you can reach Paris in 1 hour and 15 minutes by rail.
The house stands in the town centre, where an alley meets a square. Other dwellings neighbour it, as do shops. The house's stone facade has been fully renovated and rendered. A hipped slate roof crowns the dwelling. It is punctuated with skylights and gabled dormers with triangular pediments. A cornice with dentils underlines the roof. The building is rectangular. It has a basement, a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. The facade faces south and its window and door surrounds are made of dressed tuffeau stone left exposed.
The houseThe facade is punctuated with rectangular windows with small panes and one large picture window. The entrance door is glazed and set to the left. The elevation facing the side alley is punctuated with rectangular windows with small panes and a small arched window. A glazed door leads into a dining area. The architectural articulation is plain, centred on the dressed tuffeau stone of the quoins and window and door surrounds.
The ground floor
The front entrance door leads from the pavement into a hallway. On one side, a flight of stairs leads down to the vaulted cellar. On the other side, a few steps take you up to a lounge. One of the walls features a tuffeau-stone fireplace. This open-plan space leads to a dining area and then to a kitchen. A wrought-iron balustrade separates the lounge from the hallway. Beneath the staircase, which is painted white and fitted with a wrought-iron balustrade, a door leads into a lavatory. From the kitchen, a door leads into a pantry and boiler room. And from the dining area, a glazed door leads out into the alley. The floors are recent and tiled with beige tiles. The wall plastering leaves some stonework slightly exposed. And exposed beams run across the ceiling.
The first floor
A landing connects to a first bedroom on one side. This bedroom has a shower room and a lavatory. Straight ahead there is a bathroom. And on the other side of the landing, there is a lavatory and a second bedroom. Wood strip flooring extends across the rooms, except in the bathrooms, which have tiled floors. One of the walls in the second bedroom has exposed stonework and a tuffeau-stone fireplace. All the other walls are painted. The rooms are filled with natural light from windows with small panes. Exposed beams run across the ceilings.
The attic
A landing connects to a third bedroom on one side. Straight ahead there is a shower room and a lavatory. And on the other side, there is a fourth bedroom. Wood strip flooring extends across the rooms, except in the bathrooms, which have tiled floors. All the walls are painted. The rooms are filled with natural light from roof windows and, in the fourth bedroom, from two dormers with small panes. Exposed beams run across the ceilings.
The basement
You reach the cellar from the hallway. This vast vaulted cellar is divided into two separate rooms. The first one has a floor area of around 19m². It has been partly converted and is fitted with lighting and heating. Raised wood strip flooring extends across the room. The second room has a floor area of around 6m². It serves as a storeroom and has an earthen floor.
