A renovated village house with authentic charm, a guesthouse and a tree-dotted garden full of flowers, nestled in the south of France's Touraine province.
The property lies in the south of France's Indre-et-Loire department, in the country's Centre Val de Loire region. It is tucked away in a quaint village that is located 10 minutes from the charming village of Le Grand-Pressigny. The village in which the property lies is nestled in beautiful, undulating countryside through which little rivers gently flow. It is close to the Brenne regional nature park and it is a 40-minute drive from the city of Châtellerault and its high-speed train station, from where you can get into central Paris in 1 hour and 40 minutes by rail.
The property's two houses share a courtyard and garden on a walled plot that covers around 1,100m². From a village road that runs alongside the main house, a low wooden gate leads onto a drive that takes you to a courtyard between the two dwellings. From a village square, a second gate, which is tall, made of wrought iron and framed between tuffeau stone pillars, leads onto a gravelled driveway that takes you into the garden. The different buildings are separate from one another. They face east and west. There is a main dwelling, a guesthouse and a small outbuilding. Exposed stonework forms the elevations, dressed tuffeau stone forms the window and door surrounds and flat tiles cover the roofs. Each building has a terrace. In front of the guesthouse, there is a lush lawn embellished with many clusters of flowering plants and dotted with trees.
The main houseThe principal house has a main section with a wing, which is completed with a conservatory. The main section has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space and the wing has a ground floor and a first floor. The elevations of exposed stonework are punctuated with rectangular, small-paned windows of different sizes. From the courtyard, the conservatory leads into the house. Gabled dormers with triangular pediments stand upon the gable roofs: two on the main section's roof and one on the wing's roof. A gravelled terrace edges the wing.
The ground floor
The conservatory serves as an entrance hall and connects to a kitchen with a stone-and-brick fireplace, to a lavatory and to a hallway. To one side, there is a dining room adorned with dado panelling. A stone-and-brick fireplace with an insert stands against one wall. Next, there is a lounge with a passageway and a staircase leading upstairs. Exposed beams painted white run across the ceiling. Cement tiles cover the dining room floor and painted tiles cover the floors in all the other rooms. Exposed stonework forms one of the lounge's walls.
The first floor
A landing connects to a bathroom and a lavatory on one side. On the other side, it connects to a passageway and two bedrooms. One bedroom has exposed beams and a fireplace of tuffeau stone and the other one has cornices with mouldings and foliage motifs and a white marble fireplace. The floors in the bathroom, landing and lavatory are covered with terracotta tiles. Wood strip flooring extends across the bedrooms and corridor. Small-paned windows fill the rooms with natural light and all the walls are painted.
The attic
A landing connects to an extensive space made up of a lounge, an office and bedrooms. The exposed beams are painted white. The sloping attic walls are painted too. Two dormers and a small gable-end window fill the lounge with natural light.
The guesthouseThe guesthouse is a former barn that has been entirely renovated. It has a ground floor and a first floor in the roof space. Exposed stonework forms its elevations and its window and door surrounds are made of tuffeau stone. A broad picture ...
