The fief was established in 1589 by the Harlay de Champvallon family, who won renown in the court of King Louis XIV of France. The chateau was renovated to a considerable extent later, in the eighteenth century, when it belonged to the Saint-Simon family.

The estate covers around six hectares. It is tucked away in woods. A small river edges it. A little country road and a lane lined with lime trees leads up to the property’s gates. Once you have gone through the wrought-iron gates and crossed the balustrade bridge that straddles the moat, you reach a grassy courtyard. From this open space, you can admire the rectangular chateau flanked with two pavilions that are capped with mansard roofs. On the right, a complex of service outhouses, crowned with a roof lantern and clock, completes this collection of fine buildings.

This built heritage is surrounded by a dry moat, gardens and woods of age-old trees.

From the courtyard, a path lined with brick columns and hedges trimmed in perfectly straight lines leads to the outbuildings and, further on, to a secondary entrance gate.

The chateau

The main building probably dates back to the late eighteenth century. It is rectangular and has three floors. A central lower section crowned with a stone balustrade protrudes from the facade and leads out into the courtyard. This main building offers a floor area of around 450m². Both its west and east faces of dressed stone are punctuated with symmetrically placed windows with small and large panes, stone surrounds and blue-grey louvred shutters. Its gable roof has brick hipped dormers and is covered with slate tiles.

The ground floor
You enter the ground floor via a vast hallway with a cement-tile floor of geometric patterns that takes you to the reception rooms. To the left there is a library and a living room with a black-marble fireplace, wooden panelling and ceilings embellished with mouldings. Further on, a corridor leads to a kitchen adorned with a fireplace and walls decorated with ceramic tiles framed in wooden panelling. This kitchen leads out to the grounds through a small cloakroom that also features wooden panelling. To the right, there is a winding staircase with oak balusters that takes you upstairs and a dining room decorated beautifully with timber in its parquet flooring, panelling and wooden fireplace surround. The ground-floor parquet is patterned with either a herringbone or strip motif.

The first floor
The landing connects to a spacious bedroom with an alcove and a bathroom and to a corridor that leads to three large bedrooms with bathrooms. Strip parquet covers the floors. Each bedroom has dado panelling, wooden window frames and its own marble fireplace with a trumeau mirror above it. Pairs of yellow curtains nicely dim the natural light that fills these rooms.

The attic
On one side of the landing, there is a living room with an exposed roof frame and a bedroom with a bathroom. On the other side, a corridor connects to a utility room and to four former garrets that currently serve as storerooms. Tomette tiles cover the floors.

The pavilion
Two pavilions flank the chateau: one on its north side and one on its south side. Each offers a floor area of around 150m² and has a ground floor, a first floor and an attic. Slate tiles cover their mansard roofs. Their architectural style is in harmony with that of the chateau. In the north pavilion, the ground floor includes a hallway, a staircase and a large office with walls adorned with wooden panelling. Upstairs, there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. In the south pavilion, the ground floor includes a hallway and a technical equipment room. Upstairs, there are open spaces used as offices or storerooms. Impressive roof frames bear witness to workmanship of yesteryear.

The outbuilding
This vast U-shaped complex of outhouses offers around 700m² of floor area. It is made of stone – mainly flint. Vaulted chalk cellars extend beneath part of it. The door and window surrounds are made of brick. The quoins are made of dressed stone. The roof is covered with local tiles and punctuated with wall dormers. The court-facing wing includes a small chapel with a stained-glass window, spacious barns, a tack room, stables with a loosebox and loft spaces to be converted. The clock mechanism in the timepiece that adorns the slated-covered roof lantern is intact. The central wing includes a comfortable summer apartment that faces the garden where the swimming pool lies. This apartment has a kitchen, a dining room, a lounge with a fireplace, a bread oven and a bedroom. Tomette tiles cover the floors, exposed beams and joists run across the ceilings and the walls are half-timbered or leave stonework slightly exposed. Further on, a room with columns of brick and stone contains showers for the swimming pool and leads to the vaulted cellars. The other outbuildings, made up of barns, lofts, garages and attic rooms, are mostly used for storage today. A lawn surrounded by meticulously trimmed hedges extends in front of the complex of outhouses. Further along, a path lined with colonnades runs over the moat to a tennis court and a second entrance gate.

The garden
The gardens are made up of lawns and are embellished with flowers, shrubs and hedges. They are surrounded by a moat and woods.