Once you have gone through the property’s main entrance gate, the chateau appears before you, standing out for its Renaissance style. In the inner court, the property is demarcated by the remains of a division of the chateau into two parts. Indeed, the chateau has gone through different historical periods up to the present day, apart from its western section, which has disappeared. The edifice has kept its hexagonal adjoining tower, which has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor. The main side of this tower is made of rubble stone with rendering and quoins of limestone ashlar. A huge door of solid wood leads inside this tower. This door is fitted in a stone surround with a slightly arched top that bears the remains of a coat of arms – a characteristic of the late 15th century. Each level of the tower has stone-mullioned cross windows. The main section is positioned to the east of the hexagonal tower. It is similar in design to the tower. The court-side elevation is coated with rendering that leaves the rubble stonework slightly exposed. The garden-side elevation is completely rendered. Limestone ashlar forms the quoins and carved limestone forms the surrounds around the doors and the many stone-mullioned cross windows that punctuate the elevations. On the court side, a conservatory lies beside the entrance door. A flight of stone steps leads up to the entrance door. Above this door, there is a basket-handle arch crowned with a finely sculpted pinnacle. In this stone arch, there is a badge-shaped remnant of a coat of arms that was once displayed proudly here. This coat of arms was doubtless that of the chateau’s founders. In the garden-facing elevation, there is another entrance door of solid wood. A basket-handle arch also crowns this door. In the north-east corner of the main section, there is a round tower. It is the only remaining tower of the chateau’s four original round towers. The stonework of this tower’s base was recently restored. The edifice is crowned with a slate roof of two long slopes, punctuated with gabled dormers. Lastly, beside the chateau, there are outbuildings along the edge of the property. The wooded grounds are enclosed with walls and fences.

The chateau

Up to the French Revolution and the French Republic’s sale of the chateau, the property belonged to an old noble family from the Chartres province of France’s Beauce area. This noble family included François de Languedoue, a lieutenant colonel in the regiment of the Prince of Condé. A deed from 1703 reads, ‘In the year one thousand seven hundred and three, on Saturday, the fifth day of May […] all were gathered in the chateau […] to agree upon the most suitable means to share the properties […]’. Over the course of the 19th century, different owners followed one after the other, including Louis-Nicolas Bourgeois in 1819, then Louis-Bertrand Gry, a village farmer whose son ordered demolition of half the chateau in 1842 to build the upper-middle-class house that stands there today. The chateau’s second section – the property’s current plot – stayed in the same family until it was sold in 1809 to new owners, who were farmers. The property was described as follows: ‘a building that serves as a dwelling, covered with slate upon an antique loft, completed at both ends with two towers […]; a sheep shed largely in ruins; a barn; a cowshed and stable; a bakehouse and henhouse; a dovecote in ruins; a large walled court with a carriage gate […]; a walled garden (with thatch upon the walls) in very poor condition and overgrown and in which there are fourteen trees of species including cherry, walnut and holly […].’ From 1861 to 1863, much renovation work was carried out on the property. The property then stayed in the same family, from generation to generation, until it was sold in 1947.

The ground floor
You enter the chateau from the garden. The spacious entrance hall has a floor of red marble and a large wooden staircase. Wooden panelling adorns the walls and ceiling. Its panels are large. This hallway leads to several rooms. The first one is in the round tower. It has a vaulted ceiling with ribs that run down to bases that date back to the time of construction. This room serves as a utility room. Next, the hall leads to a vast kitchen. This kitchen is fitted with many storage spaces. Terracotta tiles cover the kitchen floor. The hall also connects to a spacious room with parquet flooring that leads to a dining room and a lounge. The lounge has a painted coffered ceiling that doubtless dates back to the time of construction. This coffered ceiling is embellished with different coats of arms that punctuated the chateau’s history. The lounge features a fireplace with a mantel that also dates back to the time of construction. Beside this space, there is a modern conservatory, which replaced a conservatory from the early 20th century – the floor’s colourful cement tiles bear witness to the old conservatory. Lastly, a hallway with exposed stonework, flared recesses and rounded ceiling edges leads to a room in the hexagonal tower. This room in the tower serves as an office. It has parquet flooring, a fireplace, a ceiling of exposed joists and cross windows with stained-glass panes that evoke the Renaissance.

The first floor
You reach the first floor via a quarter-turn staircase with a wooden balustrade. The first step on this staircase is rounded. Up on the first floor, a corridor connects to a first bedroom on the right. This bedroom lies in the round tower. On the left, a hallway leads to three rooms. First, there is a second bedroom with a built-in wardrobe and wood strip flooring. This bedroom connects to an office fitted with a large bookcase. There is also a bathroom, which has kept its 1960s style and has a bathtub, a washbasin and a bidet. At the end of the hallway, another hallway connects to two rooms: to a shower room with a shower and lavatory and to a third bedroom, which is large and has wood strip flooring and a brick fireplace and offers a view down over the inner court. At the end of this first floor, there is a spacious bedroom that connects to a spare room in the hexagonal tower. This spare room is filled with natural light from cross windows with stained-glass panes.

The second floor
On the second floor, in the round tower, there is a bedroom with a window – a former arrow slit. Beyond the main landing, there are two other bedrooms, as well as a vast loft space. In the hexagonal tower, you can look up at a remarkable roof frame. Its structure underlines the edifice’s past splendour.

The basement
The chateau’s basement is made up of two vaulted cellars of exposed stonework that follow one after the other. These cellars have been specially designed to store a collection of wines. One of the cellars houses the dwelling’s heating system, which uses heating oil.

The outbuildings

The outhouse
The outbuildings extend along one side of the garden, beside the chateau. Their elevations are rendered and they are crowned with slate roofs on which there are two dormers with trilobed openings. These outbuildings all lead out into the garden. On the ground floor, there are two main rooms with terracotta-tiled floors. They are separated by a wooden staircase that leads up to the first floor. Upstairs, on the left, there is a loft with exposed roof beams. Next, there are two other rooms. The whole of this upper level could be converted. In line with the building, there is a large utility room and a stable with two stalls, one of which has a paved floor.

The barn
An annexe adjoins the main outbuilding. It has a spacious barn and an open-sided shelter. Several vehicles can be parked in it.