Location
The property is tucked away in the historical heart of Beaune, in the south of France’s beautiful Côte-d’Or department in Burgundy. You can get onto the A6 motorway in 10 minutes from the apartment. From there, you can reach Paris and Geneva in 2 hours and 30 minutes and Lyon airport in 1 hour and 30 minutes. And from Beaune train station, which is a 15-minute walk from the apartment, you can get to the French capital in two hours by rail. Beaune airfield, a 15-minute drive away, is open to civil aviation. The charming town of Beaune is the capital of Burgundy wine. It is nestled in the heart of Burgundy’s ‘climats’ – special plots of vineyards on slopes just south of Dijon that are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Beaune is a world-renowned town with authentic character and a wealth of built heritage. It offers a high-quality lifestyle with specialist food shops, markets, restaurants and cultural activities.
Description
The apartment
The apartment has two upper floors and a ground-floor cellar. It looks like a house. When you enter the dwelling, you step straight into the kitchen.
The ground floor
The ground floor is taken up by a vaulted cellar that you enter from the small courtyard that lies at the same level as it. You step into this cellar via a little wooden door fitted in a stone surround and crowned with a sculpted face that seems to keep watch over the court. A single stone barrel vault runs over this cellar, which has a gravelled floor. Two small windows fitted with wooden shutters and metal bars fill the room with natural light.
The first floor
An external flight of steps leads up to an entrance hall with a floor of travertine tiles. A wall of exposed stonework here is a token of the place’s original construction materials. From this hallway, a flight of open-tread stairs leads up to the second floor. On the left, there are two bedrooms. One of them has a walk-in wardrobe. Windows look out at the courtyard. Beneath the stairs, there is a lavatory with a washbasin.
The intermediate level
The wooden staircase with its fine black balustrade leads up to a small intermediate landing that connects to a large tiled bathroom that has a bath and shower and is filled with light from a double window. This intermediate landing also connects to a lavatory.
The second floor
From the intermediate landing, the stairs continue to climb up. They take you up to an extensive lounge with an open-plan fitted kitchen that has black-lacquered furniture units. This room is very bright and it has a tall ceiling height up to its exposed beams. Oak strip flooring extends across the room, giving the different spaces here visual coherence. A few steps lead up to a raised lounge, separated by wooden openwork. Many small windows bathe the room in natural light. The building seems to stretch skywards to tower over the neighbouring roofs. Near the kitchen space, a sliding pocket door with a stained-glass window leads to a utility room and a storage space. Lastly, a door takes you to the second-floor landing of the commonhold building – the apartment’s secondary entrance.
Our opinion
This delightful dwelling is neither a proper house nor a standard apartment. Its original layout and two floors make it a unique gem. The vast top-floor living space, bathed in natural light, seems to stretch skywards to offer absolute privacy. And in Beaune it is rare to enjoy a vaulted cellar located on a ground floor, which makes this lower space easy to use. Beyond the town walls, there is a parking space on a commonhold property just 300 metres from the dwelling. This helps you get around the town centre. Here you can enjoy a high-quality lifestyle, whether you use the dwelling as a main home or second home. It has been renovated masterfully and its energy efficiency is good.
425 000 €
Fees at the Vendor’s expense
Reference 864801
Land registry surface area | 547 m2 |
Total floor area | 103.19 m2 |
Number of rooms | 4 |
Reception area | 37 m2 |
Number of bedrooms | 2 |
Surface Cellar | 35 m2 |
Surface Parking 1 | 12 m2 |
Number of lots | 15 |
Annual average amount of the proportionate share of expenses | 218 € |
NB: The above information is not only the result of our visit to the property; it is also based on information provided by the current owner. It is by no means comprehensive or strictly accurate especially where surface areas and construction dates are concerned. We cannot, therefore, be held liable for any misrepresentation.