A track leading to the property leaves a small country road on the hillside. A discreet spring covered with stones marks the entrance to the grounds. The chateau’s facade appears at the end of a drive shaded by tall, old trees. The edifice enjoys absolute privacy and calm. It looks out over a valley, in isolation from the rest of the world. You can admire several stunning vistas from the property. These views stretch to the town of Lectoure, perched on its rocky outcrop.

The chateau is built on a large gravel terrace with a round ornamental stone pond. The building is rectangular and has an adjoining tower in the middle of its west elevation. It has four flours that can be seen from its east side, lower down. The top floor is a loft space. The edifice offers a liveable floor area of around 800m², spread between the ground floor and the first floor, which can be seen from the south driveway. The chateau was built in 1805. It is made of dressed stone, rendered with a beige lime coating.

Its facade reflects the architectural traits of its era: 14 rectangular openings are arranged symmetrically around a central bay that stands out for its dressed stone and its double door that forms the main entrance. The quoins, cornices and door and window surrounds are made of exposed dressed stone. The building is crowned with a zinc and slate mansard roof with hipped ends, punctuated with three bull’s-eye windows on its south side, three on its north side, one on its east side and another one on its west side.

The grounds are dotted with age-old trees and vast clearings. This wonderful outdoor space includes an isolated swimming pool, a dovecote, an old washing place and an Italian-style garden. The style of this Italian garden goes well with the chateau’s north elevation and brings out its elegance. At a lower level, there are two large rectangular outbuildings made of rubble stone. They face each other and can be reached via a separate drive on one side.

The chateau

The chateau has an imposing, majestic bearing. Its architectural quality is remarkable: its elegant dressed stone and magnificent mansard roof of slate and zinc embody the spirit of the 19th century. The edifice is built on the hillside rock. Its form follows the hill’s slope. From its east side, you can reach two extra lower levels on which the building stands. The many windows that punctuate its walls flood the rooms with natural light and ensure optimal brightness inside. From the house’s front step beneath a balcony edged with a fine wrought-iron balustrade, you can admire a sweeping vista of small valleys that dot the surrounding countryside.

The ground floor
A glazed fanlight behind a monogrammed grate that bears the initials of the chateau’s first owner caps a double door of sculpted wood. This entrance door leads into a spacious hallway with a travertine floor and a ceiling embellished with mouldings. This hall heralds the generous proportions and refined style of the chateau’s other rooms. A central hallway beyond it connects to the reception rooms. A comfortable lounge is adorned with chevron parquet and an elegant fireplace with a mantlepiece of finely carved wood. French windows lead out to an Italian-style garden. On either side, tall double doors connect to two dining rooms. On the east side, there are two rooms on either side of the corridor. Future owners can decide on the purpose of these rooms. They look out over a lower courtyard and offer a view that stretches across the top of the roofs of the outbuildings. A lounge that has been repainted serves as a television room. The tower has a service entrance that you reach from a terrace. Sunsets bathe this terrace in light. A narrow kitchen with a floor of tomette tiles connects to a dining room. The rural style of this dining room is brought out by a broad, tall, open fireplace with a plain timber lintel. From the corridor, a wooden staircase with quarter turns climbs all the way up to the loft and a second flight of stairs leads down to cellars and a caretaker’s apartment. On this ground floor, the ceiling height is around 3.6m.

The first floor
A spacious corridor runs from east to west and connects to six bedrooms, three of which have an en-suite bathroom and lavatory. There is a separate bathroom in the tower. The different bathrooms feature washbasins with old-style taps and bathtubs on ceramic claw feet. All the rooms on the first floor offer clear views of the surrounding countryside and an abundance of natural light that enters through many windows and reflects warmly on strip flooring of solid wood. Some of the bedrooms also feature a marble fireplace. In the middle of the first floor there is a series of three rooms. This large space has been renovated in a modern style with broad wood strip flooring and wall paintwork of pale tones. The ceiling height of around 3.8m is remarkable.

The attic
The loft offers an astonishing floor area of over 230m². This second floor could be entirely converted. Its volume beneath the mansard roof is generous throughout the loft space: its height up to the roof ridge reaches five metres. The bull’s-eye windows on this level offer a range of vistas like round paintings: you can admire the undulating landscape, punctuated with woods, fields and quaint rural houses.

The garden-level floor
You reach the garden level of the chateau via a long, narrow flight of stone stairs that begins in the corridor of the ground floor. From this garden level, you can walk straight out into a garden enclosed with a tall stone wall with solid pillars. The outbuilding in which the chateau’s boiler is installed faces the entrance to the cellars, or, more precisely, the rooms that lead out to the grassy esplanade at this level. This level is tall and divided into two floors. It is also separated into two distinct sections that you reach from a spacious hallway. On the left, there is a caretaker’s apartment that needs to be renovated. It includes a lounge with a kitchen area and, upstairs, a bedroom with a bathroom. On the right, there is a room with three archways of dressed stone that are over 5.5 metres tall. This space could be given many possible purposes.