From a B road that connects the neighbouring town to Nantes, a small country lane provides access to a track towards a farm, which then branches off onto a drive bordered by plane trees that leads to the property’s wrought-iron entrance gate. The drive then traverses a wooded portion and creates a loop, on one side of which is a chapel and, on the other, former outbuildings, while, towards the back, is the chateau’s western exterior. All around, entirely enclosed grounds planted with multi-century trees ensure the property’s privacy.
Built on a foundation of granite and schist and overlooking a small river, the current chateau dates from the 19th century – although the presence of a dwelling on this land goes all the way back to the 16th century – while its complex layout reveals its successive expansions, with the addition of two right-angle wings, followed by a lateral pavilion.
Topped with a slate roof punctuated by dormer windows, it includes a main building, cadenced by three vertical rows of windows, which is extended on either side by a wing with one vertical row of windows. Placed at right angles, the wings form an interior courtyard and give the building its U shape. Abutting the eastern wing at a right angle, a polygonal pavilion in tuffeau stone with three rows of vertical windows projects outwards. while the chateau’s roof is adorned with dormer windows topped with triangular pediments, except for the dormer window over the main building’s central row of windows, which is crowned with a basket-handle pediment.
The chateau’s exteriors are coated in lime plaster, except for the pavilion’s outer walls, which are made out of tuffeau stone as are the window and door surrounds, quoins, cornices and dormer windows, whereas the chimneys were constructed out of brick and tuffeau stone. Surrounding the chateau, along its façade, eastern wing and up until the pavilion, the ground is covered in fish-scale pavers, while the interior courtyard is clad in ochre travertine slabs.

The Chateau

With a ground floor, first floor and converted level under the raised eaves, as well as a little more than 600 m² of inhabitable floor space, the chateau was the subject of a partial renovation, which involved installing a central geothermal heating system and double-glazed wood-framed windows, updating the plumbing, sanitation system and electricity, insulating the eaves and giving all the rooms a fresh coat of paint.

The ground floor
The chateau’s main entrance is located in the middle of its main building and opens onto a deep entrance hall that also provides access to the interior courtyard and includes a lavatory as well as the oak staircase that leads upstairs. With travertine floors, the entrance hall opens, on one side, onto an immense kitchen-living room taking up the entire eastern wing and extended by a large sitting room located in the pavilion and accessible via double doors. With an imitation hardwood tile floor, the living room-kitchen is illuminated by recessed spotlights in the drop ceiling overhead. As for the sitting room, it has an oak straight-plank hardwood floor, as well as a wooden fireplace decorated with a medallion of the Duchess Anne of Brittany moulded in 1499 and a replica of an original on display at the Louvre, while oak is also used in the sitting room’s cymatium, wall panelling and exposed ceiling beams. Located at the end of the eastern wing, an entrance hall abuts the sitting room and provides access to the interior courtyard, while a second oak staircase leads to the upstairs floors.
On the other side, the entrance hall gives onto a section of the chateau, located in the central building and western wing, which could be used as an independent dwelling. A corridor provides access to an initial bedroom, decorated with a blue tiger-striped marble lion-claw fireplace. With travertine tile floors, these two rooms are heated thanks to an underfloor heating system. The corridor also provides access to a second living room, which communicates with another open kitchen, the floor of which is covered in white tiles, while a bas-relief with a floral motif carved into the tuffeau stone decorates the passageway between the living area and the kitchen. As for the living room’s décor, a tall tuffeau stone fireplace with columns is adorned with a cast-iron plaque displaying the salamander symbol of King François I, and tuffeau stone corbels support the exposed ceiling beams. In addition, a hallway at the back of the kitchen leads to a bathroom, laundry room-furnace room, lavatory as well as a door to the outside, and interior wooden shutters safeguard all the windows on the ground floor.
The first floor
This floor is accessible from the grand staircase in the entrance hall or the second staircase located next to the formal sitting room, while a hallway, illuminated by windows overlooking the courtyard, provides access to all the bedrooms. On one side, three bedrooms are located in the central building and western wing, as well as a bathroom, lavatory and the service staircase to the second floor. As for the the eastern wing, it contains an immense bedroom with a wardrobe, a fifth bedroom and a bathroom. At one end, the hallway leads to an office-library located in the lateral pavilion as well as the staircase to the second floor. With pitch-pine hardwood floors throughout, all the windows are protected by interior oak shutters, while the ceilings in some of the bedrooms are crowned with a cornice moulded with flowery lace patterns. Two bedrooms also have Directoire-style marble fireplaces and the parental suite includes a brown and white marble Louis XV fireplace, the lintel of which is decorated with a seashell.
The second floor
This floor, under the raised roof and accessible via two staircases, includes six bedrooms, one of which, located in the pavilion, is larger than the others and has a fireplace. A hallway also provides access to a bathroom, a room that is used as an attic space and storage areas. With pitch-pine hardwood or tile floors throughout, the roof’s wooden rafters are partly visible, while all the dormer windows are safeguarded by interior wooden shutters and the moulded doors are made out of oak.
The base level
Located under the pavilion only, this includes a cellar of approximately 45 m² with a beaten earth floor.

The Former Outbuildings

Made out of plaster-coated rubble stone and schist, these two buildings, positioned one behind the other with interlocking tile roofs, are located at the property’s entrance and were once the chateau’s former service quarters. It should be noted that they both are in need of a renovation.

The farm
Located along the drive that leads to the chateau, it once formed a U-shaped complex that has now partially fallen into ruins. With two storeys, the central building once housed a garage for horse-drawn carriages on the ground floor and a hayloft upstairs, while, at a right angle, the two wings were used for storage. With its decorative exterior elements highlighted by flat bricks, this building has arched windows and doors and approximately 250 m² of floor area.
The cart shelter
Located behind the former tenant farmer’s house, this building is 36 metres long and 5 metres wide. Once reserved for the storage of farm material, this vast covered area includes 8 alcoves, separated by columns set within granite bases and is topped with a flat tile single-pitch roof. In addition, it includes an interior room enclosed by schist walls.