One of the most remarkable properties in the town centre of Provins,
a UNESCO heritage town nestled in the Paris region's countryside
Provins, SEINE-ET-MARNE ile-de-france 77160 FR

Location

Provins is a charming medieval town tucked away in the rural region around Paris. Its beautiful old centre is surrounded by ramparts. It hosts a vibrant annual festival and forms the backdrop of many film shootings. The historical heart of Provins is a UNESCO world heritage site: an age-old hub nestled behind immemorial walls. Its twelfth-century keep – the Tour César – and its thirteenth-century tithe barn are open to the public, as are its museums and underground passages.

The house stands in the centre of Provins, handily near all the town’s amenities. Beyond the rich architectural heritage of Provins, the town offers all the conveniences you need for a pleasant life: a cultural centre, sports facilities, countless shops, public and private hospitals, and public and private schools. Moreover, the town organises many cultural events all year round.

The property lies ninety kilometres from Paris, which can be reached in one hour and thirty minutes via the A4 motorway, the N4 trunk road and the Paris outer ring road. From the Gare de l’Est railway station in Paris, trains leave for Provins every half-hour at peak periods and each hour at other times. The town of Fontainebleau is just fifty kilometres from Provins. And only forty kilometres away lies the Marne-la-Valleé Chessy train station for both high-speed national rail and the Paris regional rail network.

Description

The property is made up of several buildings in a U shape. It looks out over a calm street. The buildings are arranged around a paved courtyard that features a rectangular lawn with four spherical box trees at each corner. A garden extends in line with this court, separated from it by a small wall crowned with wrought-iron railings. An elegant double-door iron gate opens between these two sections. At the bottom of the garden a box hedge separates the garden from another courtyard, which offers two closed garages with access to the road.

The town house forms an L shape. It is made up of two storeys, excluding the cellar and loft, and is completed with a one-bedroom apartment that can be reached via a carriage entrance that serves as a secondary point of entry. On the edge of the square court, an artist’s studio and three storerooms stand in line with a wash house.

In the garden, a lean-to adjoins the artist’s studio and a greenhouse adjoins the living room.

The house

This eighteenth-century edifice forms an L shape between its paved courtyard and the street. A pale pink coating adorns its facades. Local flat tiles cover its gable roof, which is dotted with several skylights that have been regularly reworked. The many bays are outlined with strips of white that structure them neatly. They are filled with French windows and with inward-opening casement windows with large panes and louvred shutters that are also white. Some stand behind a wrought-iron guardrail.

The main entrance is on the street: a sculpted oak door leads straight into the house.


The ground floor
The entrance takes you into a dual-aspect hall that stands out for its oak and stained-glass doors and that leads into the courtyard. The floor is embellished with cement tiles.

To the right, a small hallway leads to a lavatory and to an office with a decorative fireplace and walls with painted dado panelling. Oak chevron parquet bedecks the floor beautifully. A bright dual-aspect dining room gives you direct access to the garden through French doors. The room is adorned with a marble fireplace and oak chevron parquet. Following in a straight line, the dual-aspect living room is embellished with the same parquet flooring, a similar fireplace and ceiling mouldings. It likewise leads to the garden via French doors.

To the left, a hallway with cabochon floor tiling contains the main staircase, made up of stone steps, wrought-iron balusters and a banister that shines with a patina. Another small space connects to the cellar. The little dining room with cement-tile flooring adjoins an old-style kitchen: a warm, bright living space with cabochon floor tiling that is brightened up with French doors leading into a conservatory and the private courtyard. Beyond it is a scullery, now used as a utility room and larder, with original tomette-tile flooring.
The first floor
On one side, the landing connects to the main bedroom with its wardrobe, then a room that overlooks the garden and includes a decorative fireplace. Oak chevron parquet fills the floors. A double-washbasin bathroom leads to a conservatory and a terrace that looks out over the garden. On the other side of the landing is a second bedroom, then a hallway that takes you to the other rooms. A third bedroom, with a wardrobe, lavatory and bathroom, connects to the second one. It can also be reached via backstairs. A fourth bedroom also features oak chevron parquet flooring. The floors of the fifth and sixth bedrooms are bedecked with pinewood parquet. There is a shower room with a macerator toilet. And there is another room that could be turned into a bathroom through renovation work.
The attic
The loft is made up of a guest room and two attic storerooms.

The apartment for rental

This one-bedroom apartment covers around 50m². It is located on the first floor. You can reach it via the porch. There, an entrance hall connects to a boiler room and a private staircase at the end of it that leads up to the apartment.

A small hallway takes you to a bedroom, a bathroom with a lavatory, and a living room with a kitchenette.

This dwelling is an integral part of the house: without a tenant, it could become part of the main house again if a connecting passage was recreated.

The wash house and storerooms

In the right-angled wing, a door leads to a passage, left of which a row of three storerooms or pantries extends. Straight ahead stands a wash house on the banks of the River Durteint where wild ducks occasionally come to shake themselves dry.

The artist's studio

A hipped roof crowns the artist’s studio. The facade is adorned with large glass panes, its double door embellished with spiral patterns. The whole front is framed with pillars joined together by pear-shaped balusters and an entablature frieze. Inside, the daylight-filled room is conducive to creativity with direct access to the garden. The current ceiling could be removed for slightly more height, which could continue up to the roof ridge. The room covers roughly 20m².

The lean-to

The greenhouse

Our opinion

A classic property with touches of romanticism where annexes join a main building in an orderly arrangement. It is said that visiting Provins is a unique experience. So what would it be like to make the town your home? Or to live there in a property as elegant as this one?

950 000 €
Fees at the Vendor’s expense


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Reference 163170

Land registry surface area 1663 m2
Main building surface area 400 m2
Number of bedrooms 7
Outbuilding surface area 150 m2

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Consultant
Provins and surroundings

Corinne Angeli +33 1 42 84 80 85

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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.

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