A former winemaker’s house, with its courtyard, outbuildings
and guesthouse, in the south of the Anjou region
and guesthouse, in the south of the Anjou region
Saumur,
MAINE-ET-LOIRE
pays-de-loire
49400
FR
Location
The property is located in a hamlet in the south of the historic Anjou region, within the Maine-et-Loire department, part of the greater Pays de la Loire region, and only a few kilometres from a village with essential shops and services. The city of Doué-la-Fontaine is approximately 15 minutes away, while Angers and its high-speed rail station are a little over 30 minutes away, the latter providing a dozen or so daily round-trip trains to Paris in 1.5 hours. In addition, Saumur and the banks of the Loire are only a stone’s throw away and the surrounding countryside is dedicated to wine growing and making in all its splendour with, specifically, the famous Coteaux-du-Layon appellation.
Description
From the village, a country road leads to the hamlet and provides access to the property’s gate. Entirely enclosed by low walls topped with fencing, the property is organised around an immense landscaped courtyard, which is surrounded by the following buildings: the main house with, adjacent to its southern end, a covered patio and its ancient winepress, small buildings meant for farm animals, former stables with an adjacent barn, a guesthouse, with its back to the courtyard, and an annexe dwelling. The main house is made up of a central building and a slightly lower extension, topped with a slate gable roof. With pointed rubble stone walls, the edifice has two storeys, including an attic level, while, for the most part, its windows face east onto the courtyard.
With direct access from the road and its own outbuildings, the guesthouse’s main façade looks out onto its own hedge-enclosed garden with views of the surrounding countryside. On the property, all of the buildings’ structural works are in excellent condition and, for those that are used as accommodations, their finishings and fittings are as well. Lastly, two working wells are used to water the gardens.
With direct access from the road and its own outbuildings, the guesthouse’s main façade looks out onto its own hedge-enclosed garden with views of the surrounding countryside. On the property, all of the buildings’ structural works are in excellent condition and, for those that are used as accommodations, their finishings and fittings are as well. Lastly, two working wells are used to water the gardens.
The Main House
The ground floor
The entrance hall leads, on one side, to a living room, kitchen with an ancient bread oven and a technical room and, on the other, to a sitting room and game room. With tile or terracotta tile floors, the ceiling beams are exposed throughout except in the game room, and falun stone fireplaces can be found in the living room and sitting room. The kitchen has direct access to the courtyard, while the technical room, which includes a utility room, bathroom, lavatory and furnace room, opens onto the covered patio. In addition, staircases in the entrance hall, game room and technical room all provide upstairs access to the attic space. Lastly, a vaulted cellar of approximately 30 m², under the covered patio and still hooked up to the winepress, is accessible from the courtyard via a ramp bordered by a wall.
The attic
The staircase from the entrance hall provides access to a landing with exposed ceiling beams that communicates with three bedrooms, a shower room with lavatory and an office. The office and the technical room on the ground floor are also connected via a staircase, while the same goes for one of the bedrooms and the game room.
The Main House's Outbuildings
Built out of pointed rubble stone, these buildings all have tile roofs, except for the one covering the patio, which is in slate. The covered patio near the kitchen extends over approximately 53 m² and is used as a summer dining room, while the former stables include approximately 270 m² and the adjacent barn, with workshops and a garage for vehicles, measures approximately 80 m². In the annexe dwelling of approximately 61 m², the ground floor is used to store the family’s bicycles, while, upstairs, under the eaves, a game room was created with a floor area of approximately 47 m².
The Guesthouse and its Outbuildings
With pointed rubble stone walls, this house has one floor and is topped with a slate gable roof. For the most part, its windows face north and look out over a tree-filled, hedge-enclosed garden. This house is extended by a covered patio of approximately 55 m2 in addition to former pigsties – abutting the stables’ and barn’s back wall – which also have approximately 55 m2 and are topped with a tile roof.
The ground floor
With a painted concrete floor, it includes a living room under a soaring roof ridge with exposed ceiling beams, an open kitchen, three bedrooms, a shower room with lavatory and a furnace room. Although not perfectly up to standards, its layout was designed in order to accommodate a person with reduced mobility.
Our opinion
In excellent condition and meticulously maintained, this property has many assets, in addition to an ideal geographical location. All around, vineyards carpet the hillsides – rich with famous appellations – all the way to the banks of the Loire, while the two comfortable and independent dwellings, ensconced within an atmosphere that is both rustic and elegant, each come with a number of outbuildings ready to be converted. In addition, the property’s proximity to Paris in only two hours via the Angers train station as well as its spacious configuration make it ideal for a number of family or professional projects.
520 000 €
Fees at the Vendor’s expense
Reference 836291
| Land registry surface area | 4470 m2 |
| Main building surface area | 250 m2 |
| Number of bedrooms | 7 |
| Outbuilding surface area | 625 m2 |
| including refurbished area | 140 m2 |
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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.
