The main dwelling faces southwards, standing between a round tower and a square one that was reduced in height. A terrace extends in front of it, providing space for meals, conversations, naps and reading on sunny days.

The reception rooms lie either side of the house’s seventeenth-century entrance door, which takes you into a spacious hall. To the right is a parquet dining room with a fireplace and to the left is an equally sumptuous living room. A boudoir, or office, separates the living room from a large bedroom that includes a washstand and an Empire-style bath. This bedroom leads out into the garden. The room connects to a bathroom in a seaside-resort style that takes up the round tower’s ground floor. A kitchen and scullery lie parallel to the dining room towards the middle of the edifice. The kitchen opens eastward to the outside. The scullery leads to a patio with access to a woodshed, boiler room and former laundry.

Two staircases take you to the first floor, which is made up of three bedrooms, a linen room, a bathroom, an office and two lavatories. In the middle of this storey lies an extensive playroom under exposed beams. The room has many purposes. For example, it can serve as a children’s dormitory, a television room or an area for fun afternoon snacks.

Almost all the windows are double-glazed. Most of the ceilings are insulated and large cast-iron radiators emit the heat produced by the oil boiler very effectively. Most of the roofs are new or recent. The cellar is spectacular under its ribbed vault (transverse arch in the middle).

The annexes adjoining the house include a former stable, a garage and a storeroom under an extensive attic.

The sanitation system needs to be only partially changed.

The lush garden, which leads right up to the house, offers a delightful bucolic view over a 2,800m² area of flower beds, trees and grass. On the other side of the small access road lies a half-hectare meadow with a row of walnut trees running across it.

The house

The house is made up of three sections. On the left is a round tower, the oldest building. Its arrow slits betray its former military purpose. At its ground level, French windows open out into the garden. Its conical roof is covered in Périgord tiles in a fish-scale pattern. The dwelling’s central section has three bays over two storeys. It dates back to the eighteenth century. On the ground floor, it has French windows and two large windows with small panes, framed in dressed limestone. On the first floor, the windows are smaller. The right-hand section forms an L shape, creating a slight right-angled protrusion from the facade. The square tower it once included was trimmed in height in 1900. Yet it is still made up of three storeys, two of which have large windows with small panes. It boasts a fine seventeenth-century entrance door upon a flight of two granite steps. The door is framed with pilasters with cabled fluting that rise up to a frieze of glyphs and guttae, which is itself crowned with a triangular pediment featuring a coat of arms at its apex. And higher up is another, much smaller triangular pediment. Here, the Renaissance blends into the Baroque. To the right of the door is an arched window outlined with a toothed frame of dressed limestone.

The roofing is made of tiles, dating back to 2003 on the round tower and 1996 on the tall L-shaped building. Between the two, the central section’s roofing was entirely renovated in 2021.

The garden-level floor
The seventeenth-century entrance leads to a large hall with a terrazzo floor and walls with dado panelling. Facing the entrance stands the house’s main staircase, under which a door takes you into the kitchen. Opposite, there is a lavatory, which a high window ventilates. Another opening leads out into a patio that connects to a former laundry and to an extensive, newly roofed building of annexes that juts out at a right angle to the house’s tall section. Right of the entrance hall, the dining room is filled with daylight from two tall, wide double-glazed windows, one facing south and the other east. The floor is made of oak parquet, the fireplace is made of marble and the ceiling is embellished with a ceiling rose. Built into a thick wall is a 70cm-deep cupboard. The dining room connects to the kitchen, which lies parallel to it and which you can enter straight from outside via double-glazed French windows facing east at a right angle to the annexes. Here too is a fireplace. The scullery–pantry is the same length as the kitchen but narrower. It can be reached both from the kitchen and the patio. A sink, dishwasher, refrigerator and hot-water tank can be found there. Left of the entrance hall is the living room, which can be heated from a marble fireplace and two large radiators, if need be. Two double-glazed windows of different sizes fill the living room with daylight. Parquet covers the floor. A beam adorned with a casing of mouldings marks the middle of the cornice ceiling between two roses. An office–boudoir that follows westwards is brightened up by its large double-glazed window. Tall wall cupboards form panelling. This room is a way into the ground-floor bedroom, the other way being the garden into which it opens out directly (indoor shutters). The wall radiator of this tomette-tiled bedroom can be complemented with an earthenware wood-burning stove that was made in France’s Moselle department. In this way, you are sure to enjoy a snug temperature for relaxing into the Empire-style bath, the old-style taps of which are from the 165-year-old house of Herbeau, where the washstand comes from too. Washing yourself in the bedroom is a form of refinement, an extra comfort, but a bathroom with a lavatory is nearby too, on the ground floor of the round tower. In this bathroom, there is a seaside-resort theme. A trapezoidal bath and washbasin are covered in tiny soft-blue tiles. The top of the walls has been painted like one of Tiepolo’s skies. The old-style taps are from the house of Volevatch. Tiled steps help you get into the bath. And the garden is just a step away, through large French windows with indoor shutters.
The first floor
The wooden staircase that climbs up from the entrance hall is filled with daylight through a window. It leads up onto a landing. Opposite there lies a bedroom facing south, which has not stopped it from being equipped with a large cast-iron radiator. To the left are the other rooms of the house’s tall section, beneath an insulated ceiling, and they connect to a large landing: another south bedroom with its east side (which includes a large window) flanked with a linen room or walk-in wardrobe; an east bedroom upon broad boards of nailed seventeenth-century parquet; a vast bathroom with tiled flooring that was designed by a former occupant; and a lavatory. The two bedrooms have inside shutters and, of course, large radiators. The wall of the east bedroom is thick enough to contain two big wardrobes. On the landing of the large staircase, a few steps lead to the house’s central section. First, you get to an extensive room beneath exposed beams (with an insulated ceiling). It offers a range of spaces that children will love, including a bed, games, a television area and a table for afternoon snacks. Three wall radiators have been sized to suit the room’s dimensions. The parquet is beech, like that of the office, which lies beyond it and enjoys exposure to both the south and west. Here too, the ceiling is insulated, like that of the room that takes up the round tower’s first floor – both a library and a lavatory with a washbasin. The second flight of stairs, forming a U-shape, under which a walk-in wardrobe and a second hot-water tank can be found, leads to the intersection between the ground floor of the round tower (bathroom) and the downstairs bedroom.