Two wrought-iron gates open into driveways that lead to the mansion’s side entrances. The building has a central section that is set back and two wings that are slightly higher than the latter, forming a symmetrical layout. The west driveway also leads to a triple garage at the back of the grounds and a tree-dotted garden that enjoys privacy. This back garden lies at a lower level than the front of the property.

The mansion was built at the end of the 19th century and redesigned from the 1960s. It has three floors, a basement and a loft space in each of its two protruding wings. Its north-facing facade is made of stone and rendered with a pale pink coating. It has six bays and exposed quoins and windows surrounds of dressed stone. The windows are tall and rectangular, except on the top floor of the central section, where dormers that are smaller and plainer punctuate this section’s lower mansard roof slope. The windows are all positioned evenly and symmetrically. A balcony adorned with a splendid wrought-iron balustrade runs along the first floor of the central section. Two identical hipped slate roofs crown the east and west wings. At the back, a garden-facing gabled dormer adorns the roof of each wing. The central section’s roof has a two-part mansard slope on its street side and a single slope on its garden side. On the mansion’s different sides, a cornice underlines the roof, which overhangs the walls only slightly.

Behind, on the south side, outdoor steps lead from the raised ground floor down to the garden.

The mansion

The ground floor
The main entrance door is on the mansion’s west side. It leads to a hallway and a staircase. This hall takes you straight to two of the four reception rooms, which connect to each other. These reception rooms include a dining room and an adjoining lounge, both adorned with herringbone parquet flooring. There is a second lounge, which once served as an office, and beyond it the last reception room, which is currently used as a bedroom. Double doors embellished with mouldings separate the reception rooms from each other. From the west hallway, a corridor connects to a utility room, a kitchen and a conservatory that has been turned into a lounge. The latter’s picture windows offer a sweeping view of the garden on the house’s south side. Between the kitchen and the conservatory there is a door that takes you outside to a flight of steps leading down to the garden. The east entrance door leads into a second hallway where there is another staircase. Like the west hallway, this east hall connects to the reception rooms, but also to a bedroom, a bathroom and the conservatory.

The first floor
On the west side, a vast landing connects to four bedrooms. One of them leads out onto the balcony adorned with a splendid wrought-iron balustrade. From this balcony, you can admire the elegant facade of Colmar’s majestic Court of Appeal. Another bedroom enjoys exclusive access to a spacious garden-facing terrace. The carpeted floors of these bedrooms could be renovated. This west side of the first floor is completed with a lavatory and two tiled bathrooms, one of which is an en-suite bathroom that adjoins one of the bedrooms. On the east side, a landing connects to a separate apartment that looks out at the street and the garden. This apartment includes a hallway, a dining room, a bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, a lavatory and a lounge that leads out onto a balcony adorned with a splendid wrought-iron balustrade.

The second floor
On the west side, the staircase leads up to a landing that connects to three bedrooms with carpeted floors that could be renovated. Two of these bedrooms have their own little kitchen and private tiled bathroom. You can reach the loft space from this floor via a fold-out flight of stairs. This loft space has not been converted. On the east side, the landing connects to a service bedroom and to two separate studio apartments that need to be renovated.

The basement
You can reach the basement via two staircases: one on the east side and one in the middle of the house. You can also reach it straight from the garden. In this basement, there is a large garden-facing room that has recently been a children’s games room. A boiler room, a wine cellar and different storage spaces complete this level. Some rooms in the basement have concrete floors, others earthen floors.