Nestled within a residential neighbourhood in a town along the banks of the Cher, the dwelling is situated on carefully maintained landscaped grounds of nearly 4,500 m², planted with plenty of trees and flowers, which includes a large covered patio, swimming pool, greenhouse and two outbuildings. From the street, the property is accessible via a wrought-iron gate supported by two stone pillars, which opens onto a gravel drive that runs alongside part of the grounds and one of the dwelling’s wings, in the direction of the two outbuildings used for vehicle parking. As for the U-shaped, two-storey dwelling, composed of an 18th-century central building framed by two wings, it surrounds, in the back, a grassy courtyard, scattered with pruned box trees, and accessible via an opening flanked by two tuffeau stone pillars on either side, which are then extended by low stone walls. With tall rectangular, small-paned windows, the house’s tuffeau stone exteriors are topped by a slate gable roof, which is, in turn, crowned by gable dormer windows, whereas its eastern wing includes a large picture window, in the same style, as well as several additional rectangular windows. Last, but not least, the dwelling’s interior has been well conserved with hardwood floors, fireplaces, wood panelling and tuffeau stone walls, while the eastern wing’s gable end has been converted into a garage, the plaster-coated rubble stone exterior of which is accessible via wooden double doors.

The Dwelling

The ground floor
In the western wing, a glass door opens onto an entrance hall with original terracotta tile floors. This room provides access, on one side, to an immense dual-aspect gallery with hardwood floors and an exposed beam ceiling, illuminated by a number of large windows facing the courtyard and, on the other, to a bedroom with hardwood floors, a shower room, a lavatory, a wardrobe as well as a small corridor towards the central building. Via wide ancient doors, the gallery also provides access, in succession, to an initial living room, a kitchen, a laundry room and an adjacent formal drawing room.
The latter, immense and sunny, faces east, west and south via four windows, and is organised around its centrepiece: a tuffeau stone fireplace. With oak Chantilly-pattern hardwood floors, its exposed beam ceiling, painted white, accentuates the room’s overall height, while the adjacent kitchen, topped with crown moulding, has original octagonal terracotta tile floors as well as a wood-burning stove. From here, double glass doors provide direct access to the cobblestone courtyard and garden, whereas, the neighbouring living room, with hardwood floors and a moulded cornice, contains a door that opens onto a study, designed to resemble a small den.
Opposite the entrance hall, a small corridor with tuffeau stone walls leads to the oldest part of the dwelling from where a hallway provides access to two bedrooms, one of which has an adjacent shower room and lavatory as well as a door that opens directly onto the garden. Bathed in light thanks to a number of windows and a glass door that gives onto the courtyard, here, once again, their terracotta tile floors, exposed beam ceilings, stone fireplaces and wood panelling, behind which storage cupboards have been cleverly concealed, have all been carefully preserved. Lastly, at one end of the hallway, an alcove provides access to the staircase leading to the upstairs level.
The first floor
Accessible from the landing are two bedrooms, a shower room, a lavatory and an immense space, which is intended to become a bedroom with a shower room and wardrobe. With terracotta tile floors, except in the tiled shower room, the walls are painted in most part, while the brick and tuffeau stonework has been left visible in the small corridor providing access to a third bedroom.
The east wing
On one side of this wing, a door opens from the main drive onto a small corridor that leads to a living room, flooded in light by a small-paned window facing the interior courtyard, while two lateral doors lead to a kitchen, followed by a shower room and lavatory on one side, and two adjacent bedrooms on the other. With a wide range of original floor tiles – cement, ceramic or terracotta – throughout this wing, in the kitchen, a wood-burning stove has been placed inside a tuffeau stone fireplace, whereas an attic space, accessible from the garage, spans the entire wing.
The basement
With vaulted ceilings, two of the cellars are accessible from the laundry room in the western wing, while another is located under the eastern wing.