A small road that winds through the slightly undulating countryside as far as the eye can see leads to the hamlet made up of stone houses and former farmyard buildings. At the end of the road, there is a former wash house surrounded by meadows. High stone walls lined with honeysuckle and vines, a reminder of the region’s origins, flank the house. There are two entrances to the property: the first is through a white fence leading to a patio sheltered by large trees, while the second is through a small white door that leads directly into the garden.
Instead of a doorbell, there is a bell fixed high up on the wall, adding character to the dwelling. Japanese paving leads up to the entrance door through a lush, green lawn.
There is also a barn next to this north-south facing three-storey house with a gabled roof made of Burgundy flat tiles. Purple wisteria adorns the limewash rendered façades of the buildings, including the one to the rear of the house facing north, from which a dry-stone wall extends, enclosing a patio with wooden decking, recently installed for use during the summer.

The main house

The house has a roof made of local tiles dotted with skylights, while its sober, ochre-coloured rendered façade highlights the door and window frames as well as quoins made of white limestone. Above the entrance door made of wood and glass there is an awning. Unlike the front façade, the rear boasts solid wood shutters, painted in Poyaudin blue, on its many openings. However, like the front, there is also a wooden and glazed door adorned above by an awning. On one of the windows on the first floor, there is a finely crafted guard rail.

The ground floor
The main entrance sets the tone: it is paved with Burgundy stone, enhancing the stone wall in which an alcove and a corbel have been carved out. An old stone sink, denoting the former location of the kitchen, is adorned with a variety of coloured cement tiles, reflected opposite in the mirror with authentic louvred shutters recovered from a castle. On the floor, there is a horizontal, double leaf glazed opening above a stone staircase leading down to the cellar, which can be reached through an atypical, old, arched, wooden door with period metal hinges. This door leads to a single room which is a vaulted wine cellar with stone walls, used for wine tastings and adorned with several niches of various forms, enhancing the place’s ambiance of authenticity, and in which cases for the bottles are placed on the floor made up of pebbles from the River Yonne.
The hall firstly leads to a through dining room that opens out onto the garden and patio. It also boasts an open-hearth fireplace, with a mahogany mantelpiece, as well as whitewashed beams that echo the period tiles covering the floor. The fitted kitchen equipped with cupboards can be reached through this room. After returning to the entrance hall, a small flight of large stone steps lead into a lounge, through whose windows light streams, while also providing views of the surrounding nature. The exposed oakwood beams and original terracotta tiles confer a calm and elegant atmosphere upon it, further enhanced by a custom-made bookshelf running entirely along one of the walls. A former bread oven completes the décor. Lastly, a wooden flight of winding stairs with a resting step and a balustrade leads to the upper floors.
The intermediate level
The winding staircase leads to the first half-level, which can be reached by an opening with an eye-catching rounded shape, period ironwork fittings and a stone frame that stands out against the lime-washed wall. The door leads to a landing paved with period terracotta tiles, from which three bedrooms, with wardrobe space and views of the surrounding nature, can be reached. All the windows are double glazed. Some of them boast interior wooden shutters. This part of the house also boasts exposed, whitewashed beams and a very functional bathroom bathed in light through its single window.
The upstairs
On the second level, there is another bedroom boasting an adjoining shower room with a terracotta tiled floor. There is also a very spacious room bathed in light via a large window, through which the vine climbing up the old garden wall can be appreciated.
The top floor
This level is also flooded in light through the many, well-isolated skylights. It has been entirely restored. The floor is made up of solid oak floorboards. It is split into four spaces: a partitioned room with a fully renovated shower room, a snug that leads to a final and vast bedroom with wardrobe space, and, lastly, a walk-in wardrobe which can be reached via a small flight of steps.