The chateau

The west-facing main frontage has a central projecting avant-corps topped by a triangular pediment. Each storey is punctuated by five arched, small-paned windows. The roof of the avant-corps has two oculi, and both side sections each have two arched dormer windows. The arched windows of each wing are set into the wall arcades.
On the rear facade, instead of the triangular pediment of the central avant-corps at the front, there is an arched dormer with carved wings framed by Medici pots. The front avant-corps has a window on the first floor, whereas at the back, a French window opens out to a balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade featuring brackets with volutes and foliage. The French window on the ground floor of the rear avant-corps has a key sculpted with a female mascaron ornament, gazing out over the parklands. On this side, the wing facades feature recesses with marble busts and high French windows opening onto terraces, as opposed to the rigour of the front arcades.

The outbuildings

Two storeys high, with hipped roofs featuring countless hip dormer windows, these stand to the north of the main courtyard.
A wrought iron gate leads to the first paved courtyard, surrounded by three former carriage houses closed by three grey wooden doors embellished with black ironwork. On the upper floor, there is the caretaker's lodging. With sloping ceilings, it has a floor area of roughly 70m² and includes four rooms with a shower room and separate lavatory. The former stables are set at right angles and comprise a number of workshops and sheds. On the upper level, accessed via a wooden staircase, there are various unfinished rooms totalling approx. 90m².
Opposite lies the main outbuilding known as "La Faisanderie” (The Pheasantry), which once housed the service rooms. Accessed via two entrances, is arranged around a square courtyard, encircled by a wooden open gallery, in which a marquee with a capacity of around 300 people has been installed.
An impressive carved wooden door decorated with putti holding a crown, reminiscent of the one at the Château de Ferrières, opens from the cloister into the rear courtyard. A second large double-glazed wooden door opens onto a vast hall. To the left are cloakrooms and lavatories; to the right are three reception rooms in a row, with a total floor area of around 240m². The first features a stone fireplace. The floor is tiled with black and white cabochons, the striking ceiling beams are exposed and the walls are painted purple. The second room has retained its stone floor and exposed beams, as has the third. A small kitchen completes the ensemble, with direct access from outdoors. A passageway is used for storage purposes and a corridor provides access to a cellar. A wooden door opens onto a gallery linking to the chateau.
Following on from this building, accessed via a covered passageway, there is a further courtyard surrounded by former horse stalls. The facades are covered in cut ivy, revealing the brick window surrounds. A gate allows service vehicles to enter the courtyard, which also leads to the rear of the park along a pathway surrounded by latticework.
All the buildings have retained many of their original features. They have been carefully restored for modern comfort and ease of use.

The gardener's lodge

Standing outside the grounds of the chateau, this square, two-storey building is completely independent. Its pavilion roof with hipped wall dormers tops the rendered facades with dressed stone window surrounds and corner quoins.
The ground floor comprises an east-facing entrance hall, an old kitchen, lavatories and a vast living room with a small-paned door opening out to the garden. A wooden staircase leads to the first floor. This level is organised around a landing that serves three bedrooms and an old bathroom. The second floor comprises a number of spaces with potential for conversion.
A cellar requiring restoration work completes the lodge.

The farmhouse

Situated close to the gardener's lodge and flanked on either side by two small lodges inspired by the gardener's lodge, this one-storey farmhouse faces east-west. A glass door opens onto a vast living room with a stone fireplace. There are two bedrooms and an old shower room.
The entire building, with a floor area of approx. 70m², is awaiting renovation work.

The orangery

Facing due west, it lies in the garden with a maze that adjoins the kitchen garden. Reminiscent of a Roman temple, it is built of dressed stone and features a classical facade with three arcades. On either side of the central section, two wings with round-arched windows round off the overall symmetry.
Indoors, the floor area is divided into three distinct spaces, the walls have retained traces of the original decorative motifs and the floors are stone-paved.

The kitchen garden

The vegetable garden is laid out around a central path that follows the course of the maze, bordered by lawns planted with shrubs, criss-crossed by intertwining paths and bordered by low box hedges. Here, all the senses are stimulated. The eye is drawn to the flowerbeds, punctuated by the colours and designs that bring them to life, and the olfactory senses are awakened by the scent of the rosemary bush.
The gardens have retained their authentic features, in particular the old water reservoirs at certain corners of the flowerbeds. Abutting the wall with its convex roof panels, there is a glass greenhouse with a wrought-iron structure that has been carefully restored to its original appearance.

The parkland

Divided into an enclosed area of 17ha and some 52ha of woodlands, planted under the reign of Louis XV in 1761, this was one of the first English-style landscaped parks to be created in France. The Prince of Conti and the Duchess of Chartres visited the estate expressly to admire this park. A number of landscape designs from the second half of the 18th century were directly inspired by this park.
Following the principles of Capability Brown, the park is an irregular, partly sloping garden laid out around a vast lawn featuring an old plane tree with a circumference of 8m, which was awarded the 'remarkable tree' label in 2006. This hybrid plane tree is thought to be around 200 years old. A stone obelisk set against the backdrop of a pond enhances the view. A grotto of rockwork, humbly reminiscent of the grotto of Tethys, rises above the pond. On either side, stone columns adorned with Medici vases are mirrored in the water. Behind the grotto stands a dovecote, a remnant of the former chateau.
A path that follows an artificial stream dug from a square stone shelter, known as the "Pavillon de la Source” (Spring Pavilion), leads to an island accessed via a wooden bridge, on which stands a small gazebo, also of wood. The path continues to a lookout point that rises above the chateau's former icehouse.
Among the groves and box avenues planted in the middle of the 18th century, recalling the French landscape classicism, a maze adorned with marble statues representing allegories leads to a vast green space. This is enclosed by hornbeam walls and adorned at its centre by two stone columns with pinecone motifs.
To the south of the chateau, the Baroque style has reclaimed its rightful place. An avenue of statues reveals itself in a latticework setting, like a plant theatre straight out of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.