Two rubble-stone pillars flank a wrought-iron gate. This entrance gate opens into a vast, gently sloping lawn. A driveway takes you down to the back of the main building and a parking area. Your gaze is first drawn to the watermill: a long edifice with rendered stone walls, a roof of flat tiles punctuated with wall dormers, and a square tower crowned with a pyramidal roof. The watermill was built in the first half of the 17th century and extended in the 20th century. It appears on the Cassini map – the first detailed map of the entire kingdom of France, produced in the 18th century. The building has three sections. First, there is its long main section, which is the oldest part. This section has two floors: a ground floor and a top floor in its roof space. Second, there is a tower, which has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in its roof space. Last, there is a third, single-storey section. All the windows have timber lintels.

You reach the house’s two entrance doors at two different places via footbridges that cross a millrace. The watermill looks out at its grounds, which are filled with many trees. A large terrace in front of the building leads to a swimming pool and a garden. Beyond them, there is a vast lake. You can take strolls on grassy expanses all the way around this lake. A stream flows alongside the lake before splitting into two. One branch is natural and flows through the grounds. The other branch, which becomes the millrace, flows behind the watermill to turn the old waterwheel.

The watermill

The building faces east on one side and west on the other.

The ground floor
The main entrance, in the oldest section, leads straight into a vast space with exposed beams. This space is an extensive living room with one end taken up by bookshelves and a billiard table. The watermill’s mechanism can still be seen in this room’s entrance area. Low stone walls and cast-iron pillars showcase this mechanism. A quarter-turn timber staircase leads up to part of the first floor. Three French windows take you out onto the terrace facing the swimming pool. A large opening leads into an office that features a fireplace of carved tuffeau stone with a straight hood. Stone tiles adorn the floor. A corridor takes you to a fitted kitchen where a second entrance door leads inside the house. Meals can be enjoyed comfortably in this spacious kitchen beneath exposed beams. The corridor also connects to a bedroom with a tiled floor that is filled with natural light from three French windows. It has a shower room, a walk-in wardrobe and a lavatory. A door leads from the kitchen to a second corridor that takes you to two sections from the 20th century. This corridor connects to a lounge with exposed beams, a tuffeau-stone fireplace and a timber staircase that leads upstairs, and then to an extensive dining room with a cathedral ceiling and exposed roof beams. From here, large sliding picture windows lead out to the terrace and garden. A wine cellar, a fitness room, a workshop, a lavatory and storage space complete the ground floor. The floors are tiled.

The first floor
The first floor is made up of two separate sections. You reach one of them from the office and the other one from the lounge. The staircase from the office leads to an intermediate landing with a door that takes you outside, then it carries on up to the main landing. A vast hallway filled with natural light from two windows with small panes connects to three large bedrooms. Two of them are carpeted and share a bathroom with a bath and shower, as well as a lavatory. The third one has laminate flooring and its own en-suite bathroom with a bath, shower and lavatory. The staircase from the lounge leads to a mezzanine landing that connects to three more bedrooms that are also generously sized. Two of them have their own en-suite bathroom with a bath, shower and lavatory, and the third one has an en-suite shower room with a lavatory. The floors are tiled. There are exposed roof beams throughout this floor.

The second floor
The second floor is in the tower. It is insulated but not converted. You reach it via a trapdoor in one of the first-floor bedrooms. It is filled with natural light from a wall dormer on one side and from five small windows just beneath the cornice on the other side. The floor is tiled.