The house occupies a central position in the former village and dates from the 18th century at a time when the parish still belonged to the arch-presbytery of Caraman. As with many traditional buildings in the Lauragais, the façade faces southwest, to avoid the Autan wind that blows from the Mediterranean coast.
To the north, landscaped grounds of approximately 4,700 m² provide a green setting to the property. The house at the centre of the complex includes a ground floor containing the living rooms, dining room, kitchen and lounge, whilst the first floor is home to an office, a bedroom and games room. Lastly, the top floor includes three more bedrooms and bathrooms. The right wing is made up of a comprehensive spa facility occupying two floors, while the left wing houses a separate apartment, a workshop and a stable with a capacity for two horses. There is a total of 241 m² of living space on the ground floor, 250 m² on the first floor, including the separate apartment, and 105 m² on the top floor.

The castellum

The building is flanked by two wings that previously housed the outbuildings and a wine store, forming a horseshoe shape facing towards the former village square. The façade is symmetrical, respecting the codes of classical architecture, and is made up of 3 vertical rows of windows. It is topped by a pediment with a bullseye window in the tympanum, while the central section, which has narrower windows, features a sundial. The inner courtyard provides space for car parking underneath the arches, but there is also a covered garage to the rear on the garden side. On the same side, a small building adjacent to a fountain houses a summer lounge overlooking a landscaped part of the grounds.

The ground floor
This level includes an entrance hall paved with slabs of Carcassonne sandstone, a type of stone used to build the famous fortified medieval city and which has since been quarried to exhaustion. Both inside and outside the building, the Lauragais area brick gives a red colour to all the walls. The reception room is flanked by the dining room to the left and the kitchen to the right. A U-shaped staircase, which most likely dates from an era after the house was built, leads to the first floor. As with several other rooms in the house, the dining room boasts a dual aspect: the windows look out onto both the main courtyard to the south and the tree-lined grounds to the north. As a result, these rooms are veritably flooded with light. The wall on the garden side is flanked by two small rooms in the corner of the building in which jam was previously made, as witnessed by the wire-mesh covered opening for ventilation on the upper part of the walls. On the other side of the entrance hall, the kitchen boasts modern fittings and appliances, in contrast with the enormous brick fireplace occupying the entire surface of one wall, in which there can be found a bred oven and smaller, bulging-shaped pastry oven. Following on from the kitchen, there is a lounge in the right wing, which was previously the house’s wine storehouse. This room is set at a slightly lower level than the majority of the rest of the house. Two robust, period Victorian style columns stand in the room’s centre, supporting the floor of the room above. They were once used to build a house in India, when the country was part of the British colonial empire. In the rest of this wing that stands perpendicular to the main house, there is a room with full-length, glazed, arched windows looking onto the courtyard. It plays host to a heated swimming pool which is part of a comprehensive spa facility occupying the two storeys of this wing, with a frigidarium on the ground floor and a tepidarium on the first floor, made up of a sauna, Turkish bath, shower and hot tub. A fitness room completes the facilities. Several decorative elements allude to Rome of the Antiquity, such as Corinthian columns, statues and caryatids, the marble or stone flooring, the lion formed medallion acting as a fountain and, above the pool, the painted ceiling, which is the work of artist Roger Faggion. The central heating is provided by a network of radiators powered by a mains gas powered boiler. An air-to-air heat exchange pump system with five ducted exterior units provides extra heating. Furthermore, eight solar thermal panels installed on one of the roof’s slopes provide the necessary energy for heating the domestic hot water, which is stored in a hot water tank.
The first floor
This level is made up of two vast dual aspect rooms, separated by a landing boasting a terracotta tiled floor forming a two-tone chessboard pattern. Each room has been renovated with a keen eye on reflecting a particular period and its style. Immediately to the right, the office boasts Empire style decorative elements, whilst its walls and ceilings reflect different shades of celadon green. The Aremberg style wood flooring dating from the 1900s is made of walnut and cherry wood. The walls and ceilings are adorned with cornices, mouldings, columns and pilasters made of staff or resin. Two alcoves either side of the fireplace play host to replica Antiquity sculptures produced by the Louvre Museum’s casting workshops. On the mantelpiece, red coloured caryatids act as jambs that support the lintel. The trumeau mirror is adorned with pilasters whose Corinthian capitals support a decorated pediment. On the other side of the landing, there is a Louis XVI style bedroom boasting ochre-yellow panelling. The ornamentation, friezes and ceiling roses that decorate this room allude to the Bourbon period. A door in one of the corners leads to a shower room, housed in a turret, with Alicante marble veneer and a coffered ceiling decorated with patterns painted by artist Gérard Fabre. Following on from the bedroom, above the lounge, there is a mezzanine that serves as an office, and which opens into the spa facility on the first floor of the wing on this side of the building.
The second floor
The staircase situated in the middle of the house, boasting painted moulding, alcoves and trompe-l’oeil statues, also climbs up to the second floor, which includes two extra bedrooms facing the grounds, another overlooking the courtyard and a large bathroom. These rooms are soberly decorated with a certain touch of sophistication, as attested by the presence of several modillions beneath the roof beams, the Aveyron marble facing on the fireplaces and medallions in transoms above the doors.
The cottage
On the first floor of the left wing, an apartment including a living room, lounge and bedroom overlooks the courtyard. It boasts the space and facilities required to accommodate guests separately from the main house.