In Burgundy, at the gates of Mâcon and its wine-growing region, a 16th-century tower and dwelling.
Along the Paris-Lyon-Marseille axis, at the crossroads of Europe as well as major French cities, the property is easily accessible by the A6 motorway and the high-speed rail station in Mâcon Lôché, both located 10 minutes away. Consequently, it takes one hour to get to Lyon, 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to Geneva and two hours to reach Paris. The city of Mâcon, the prefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department, has all the services and shops necessary for daily life.
The property was historically located at a strategic crossroads, making it possible to once control an ancient Roman road and the tracks leading to several neighbouring fortresses. The current edifice, composed of a tower and an oblong dwelling, dates from the 16th century at the latest. It is fronted on its eastern and southern façades by a pleasant shady garden, with a bread oven and an outhouse at its entrance.
The Tower and DwellingIn all likelihood built at the same time, the building has conserved a perfect homogeneity and architectural coherence over the centuries. Crowned with a flat tile roof, the three-storey dwelling is adjoined to a massive quadrangular tower, taller than the house by a third and topped with a pointed flat tile roof. Numerous architectural details decorate the façade: brattices, modillions and mullion windows. Organised in such a way that was quite common for the era in which it was built: the building's garden level is dedicated to the technical and service rooms while, at its centre, a staircase leads to the upper floors divided into two large rooms for private and public use.
The garden level
Three doors facing the garden lead to a workshop, a cellar used to house the furnace, as well as a woodshed with lavatory, respectively. At the centre of the building, a door opens onto a stone staircase providing access to the noble floor.
The first floor
On either side of the staircase are two rooms, one with 40 m² in the oblong dwelling and another with 30 m² in the tower, heated by two enormous fireplaces. They are adorned with window seats and exposed beam ceilings.
The second floor
The structure is identical on the second floor, reaching all the way to the roof ridge in the dwelling and topped with an exposed beam ceiling in the tower, with an imposing original stone fireplace.
The third floor
A stone staircase provides access to the last floor of the tower, conserved in its original condition, with four windows on three sides, looking out on far-off vistas. This room reaches all the way up to the tower's roof ridge.
The bread oven
At the entrance to the property, a low stone building is used as an outhouse and a bread oven.The GroundsWith 735 m² and easy to maintain, the grounds are located on both the southern and eastern sides of the dwelling. Entirely covered in grass, they are sheltered by large trees, protecting the building from prying eyes. The grounds are entirely enclosed by stone walls and accessible via a wrought-iron gate.
