and almost 4.5 hectares of grounds, just a few minutes from the city of Tours

Location
The property lies in a small town that is only 10 minutes from the city of Tours in France’s Centre Val de Loire region. The town, part of a local grouping of towns, offers schools, as well as shops and amenities for everyday needs. It is also home to many clubs and associations, which make local life vibrant. The Touraine area around the town is renowned for its chateaux, gardens and cuisine, with several Michelin-starred restaurants. Paris is only one hour away by high-speed rail.
Description
The chateau
The ground floor
From the courtyard, a wooden door in the middle of the edifice leads into a hallway with a tiled floor and walls with wooden panelling that conceals cupboards. A broad wooden staircase leads up to the first floor. Halfway up the stairs, a door leads into a lavatory. Opposite the entrance door, an arched opening leads to a first lounge, which lies between a dining room and a large living room. These rooms are bathed in natural light from windows that look out at a south-facing terrace. They are adorned with herringbone parquet and wood strip flooring. They have stone and marble fireplaces and painted walls. Cornices underline their high ceilings. From the small lounge, one door leads to a pantry and another door leads to a hallway that takes you to the kitchen on the courtyard side. Next, there is a spacious linen room with walls lined with cupboards. At the end, a door leads to a second pantry, which connects to a storage space and a lavatory. The floors are tiled. Backstairs lead up to the first floor and the roof space.
The first floor
A broad landing takes you to a long corridor that connects to all the rooms. A first bedroom, with a stone fireplace, adjoins a bathroom with a lavatory. Wood strip flooring extends across the room. Beyond it there is a room with bookshelves and a marble fireplace. This room neighbours a second bedroom, which lies opposite an office and a bathroom with a shower and lavatory. At the end, there is the master bedroom. It is a dual-aspect room that faces east and south and offers a view of the grounds. This master bedroom has a spacious walk-in wardrobe too. Its floor is carpeted and it features a marble fireplace. On the other side of the corridor, a bedroom with a bathroom lies opposite an office, a lavatory, a bathroom with a shower and one last bedroom, which likewise has its own bathroom.
The attic
You reach the roof space via the backstairs. A landing connects, on one side, to a shower room, a lavatory and a bedroom beneath the exposed roof frame. One the other side of the landing, a corridor connects to four bedrooms, one of which has a tap, and to an open space. All the rooms have wood strip flooring, except the shower room, which has a tiled floor.
The basement
You reach the cellar via a wooden door in the courtyard. The cellar extends beneath the chateau’s main section.
The east wing
A glazed double door with small panes leads from the courtyard to a vast room with a concrete floor. The room is filled with natural light from a broad window that offers a view of the grounds. At one end, there is a wall with timber framing. Opposite, a door leads to a hallway that takes you to a lavatory and a storeroom. From the covered entrance area, a door leads into a former caretaker’s dwelling, which has been renovated and transformed. The entrance hall connects to a lavatory and to bedroom with a shower room and lavatory. A staircase leads up to a corridor that connects to four bedrooms, each of which has a shower room and lavatory.
The west wing
Three arched double doors lead into a boiler room and a woodstore.
The two small towers
The two small towers were built with tuffeau stone in the 18th century. They are each crowned with a square bell roof of slate tiles. They stand opposite each other in the garden’s upper section. The west tower is a chapel filled with natural light from an arched stained-glass window. Its arched door, framed between pilasters with capitals, is crowned with a triangular pediment with an alcove housing a small statue of Saint John. The east tower is a former dovecote. Its has two arched doors opposite each other and two south-facing windows. On the ground floor, there is a room with a tiled floor and plastered walls. It has been converted into a bedroom with a lavatory. A wooden staircase leads up to a second bedroom beneath the roof frame.
The secondary dwelling
The secondary dwelling is a log cabin built upon a stone base. On one side, there are three doors: one leads to a shower room, one leads to a lavatory and one leads to a storage space. On the other side, there are two doors: one leads to a spacious bedroom with wood strip flooring and the other one leads to a shower room with a lavatory.
The outbuildings
At the edge of the car park, an old greenhouse faces south. At the back, an open-sided, L-shaped shelter that covers 115m², supported with timber pillars and crowned with a slate roof, preserves the trees around which it was built. Another structure serves as a workshop and storeroom, as does one last building, at the edge of the property, offering a total extra floor area of 70m². In the trees, there are several bubble-like treehouses that you reach via rope nets.
The grounds
The grounds cover almost 4.5 hectares. This land is partly wooded. Around the chateau, there are two grassy spaces. And on the north side, a terraced garden extends the inner courtyard. This terraced garden has two levels. One of the terraces is a French formal garden dotted with rose bushes. The other one is a grassy space that extends up to the two small towers. The garden is enclosed with a stone wall, through which a door leads to a swimming pool with olive trees and a pétanque court beside it. A path snakes between tall trees of different varieties up to an orchard and a tennis court.
Our opinion
This remarkable property is ideally located, beside the beautiful city of Tours. The 18th-century chateau is tucked away in its vast tree-dotted grounds. Indeed, the bucolic atmosphere here makes you forget that the site neighbours a vibrant city: Tours, nicknamed the “blue and white city” because of its white tuffeau stone buildings with blue slate roofs. The symmetry of the chateau’s architecture and the brightness of its interior add to the charm of the elegant edifice. Some renovation work is needed on the property, but the dwelling and its grounds could easily be home to a family and host guests – in a delightful region of France that draws many visitors, just an hour from Paris.
2 496 000 €
Fees at the Vendor’s expense
Reference 700312
Land registry surface area | 4 ha 44 a 8 ca |
Main building surface area | 863.6 m2 |
Number of bedrooms | 20 |
Outbuilding surface area | 245 m2 |
including refurbished area | 73.5 m2 |
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.