You enter the property from the street via a double-leaf metal gate decorated with diamond and spiral motifs and framed between two stone pillars. This gate leads straight from the street into a paved courtyard surrounded by an outer wall and the main edifice, which forms a U shape that opens up on its east side and is extended on its rear side with a wing and a ground-floor room by the garden. The elegant elevations are all made of dressed stone, beneath hipped and gable roofs of terracotta monk-and-nun tiling. The street runs along the front of the property, its east side, where a garage lies in an extension adjoining the south wing. Each wing on this side has one bay, but the facade is divided into three bays with two floors and a central entrance door. This main door is framed between two pilasters rising up to ionic capitals that are decorated with finely carved garlands and crowned with a sumptuous entablature with a foliage motif. On the first floor, mascarons feature at the top of the window surrounds are stone cherub heads support some of the window ledges. The windows are fitted with louvred shutters painted grey.

A garden lies on the property’s west side, behind the house. It is demarcated by an L shape formed by the edifice’s rear elevations and it looks down at a neighbouring alley, which you can reach via a flight of steps that lead down to a discreet pedestrian gate. Here, the main rear elevation has two sections: one divided into three bays with three floors and small windows immediately below the eaves and another divided into three bays with two floors and, at one end of it, a door leading out onto a terrace. The south-facing elevation of the rear wing is less sumptuous that the other elevations. It is made of exposed rubble stone and has three bays with three floors. Dressed stone forms its window surrounds. Small windows immediately below the eaves stand along the top floor.

The grand 18th-century house

The ground floor
You enter the house via a glazed double door beneath a fanlight fitted with finely crafted wrought-iron grates, then step into a dual-aspect entrance hall forming a corridor that leads to the back garden on the west side through a similar double door. The tone of the terracotta tiles that adorn the floor contrasts with the whiteness of the walls and four doors. On the right, these doors lead to a dining room and a spacious hallway where a majestic staircase rises up. On the left, they lead to an open-plan kitchen and a dining area.

The dining room looks out at the eastern court. It is adorned with a beautiful fireplace that stands against the red background of its wall. The other walls are white. The ceiling, underlined with a cornice, is also white. Above the fireplace there is a mirror set in a splendid trumeau panel. On the court side, a door leads to a small room that lies at a right angle to the main section. It has been turned into an office. There you can reach a cellar and, further on, a lavatory with a washbasin. Back in the spacious hallway, a grand elmwood staircase leads upwards. It has two quarter turns, two landings and three flights. Its handrail is made of timber and its balusters are made of finely crafted wrought iron. Beneath the stairs, there is a lavatory with a washbasin. The hallway floor is adorned with pale stone tiling patterned with small black square inserts.

Opposite the dining room, across the staircase hallway, a door leads into a lounge adorned with dado panelling. This lounge is filled with natural light from two garden-facing windows. A cornice of dentils underlines its ceiling. Chevron parquet extends across its floor. Two large gold-framed mirrors stand out on the white walls – one opposite the windows, the other on the court-side wall. Both are set in matt-grey surrounds with white embellishments in relief. There is a third mirror above the fireplace. To the right of the fireplace, a door leads to another room. The end of this room, which reaches an alley that runs past the property at a lower level, has been turned into a summer kitchen and a storeroom.

A modern open-plan kitchen with a central island unit lies to the left of the entrance hall. Its extensive work surfaces and tiled floor are dark-toned, contrasting with the whiteness of the walls. From this kitchen, a door connects to the edifice’s left wing, where there is a lavatory with a washbasin and a storeroom that leads to a garage and a boiler room.

The first floor
The main staircase takes you up to a lounge and two bedrooms. A hall that leads to the loft lies in front of one of these bedrooms. This bedroom faces south and west. It has a fireplace and a bathroom with a lavatory. The other bedroom is on the court side. It also has a fireplace and, in a wing of the edifice, a bathroom with two washbasins of translucent glass, a lavatory, and a balcony that overlooks an alley that runs past the property. The dual-aspect lounge is vast and bright. It stretches from the garden on the west side to the court on the east side. It features a brick fireplace with stone columns. A door leads from this lounge to a utility room and a lavatory and washbasin in the south-east wing. The landing of a second staircase has been turned into a library surrounding the top of the stairwell, which is edged with a white balustrade.

From here, you reach a garden-side bedroom and a space nestled between two other bedrooms. The first of these bedrooms features exposed stonework, a white floor and a two-tone wall of white and red. A mezzanine above it has been turned into a shower room with metro tiling. The second of these bedrooms, which lies on the garden side, is decorated with pastel grey and white and it has a shower room with mosaic tiling. The last bedroom, which lies on the street side, has been turned into a games room.

Wood strip flooring extends across the whole level.

The attic
The loft offers a floor area of 65m² beneath exposed roof beams. Small windows fill it with natural light. This space has not yet been fully converted. A shower room is planned for one corner.

The cellar
The two cellars are vaulted and dug into the rock on the sides. One of them is nicknamed ‘Paradise’ as it used to contain a stock of fine cognac, some bottles of which were 100 years old. The first cellar is an anteroom leading to the second cellar, which lies at a lower level.