The house and its garden are separated from the street by tall trees and a stone wall with two metal gates. The plot is rectangular. The house stands on the site’s northern edge, leaving a vast unobstructed outdoor space in front of its south-facing facade. A garage and an outdoor utility room lie in the north-west corner and a shady terrace adjoins the house’s east wall. The entrance door is also on this east side.

The dwelling was built in the interwar period. It has two floors and a semibasement. A hipped roof crowns it, underlined with a triple-row génoise cornice. The pale walls are roughcast-rendered. Evenly spaced rectangular windows punctuate the walls – some casements, others sliding windows. They are fitted with folding shutters that are painted green. The south-facing facade stands out for its large bay-window alcove with arched windows. Two balconies with colonnaded balustrades adorn the facade. One of them crowns the bay-window alcove. A third one, which is larger, protrudes above the entrance on the east side, above a series of columns and arches.

The house

The garden-level floor
An original arched entrance door of studded wood leads into a corridor. This corridor takes you to a timber staircase at the end of it, on the right. Straight on your left when enter the corridor from outside, a glazed double door opens into a lounge with a grey marble fireplace. A dining area lies beyond this lounge in the same vast reception room. A bay-window alcove with three separate arched windows extends this dining area southwards. The high ceiling more than three metres up from the floor and the five windows flooding the room with light underline a real sense of spaciousness, as does the pale-painted wall, the white ceiling and the decorative plaster cornice. The dining-area floor is covered with large, white, modern tiles, as are all the floors on this level. From this dining area, another glazed double door takes you back into the corridor, at the foot of the staircase. A kitchen lies at the end of the corridor. It is a long room with a door at the end of it that leads outside. A window in the west wall fills the kitchen with natural light. The kitchen furniture units are plain and modern with a work surface and backsplash panel of pale wood. The corridor connects to an office space without a door, opposite the lounge. A lavatory and stairs leading down to the basement lie beneath the staircase.

The first floor
An entirely timber staircase with a finely crafted balustrade leads up to the first floor. Tall, narrow windows fitted with bars fill the stairwell with natural light. A large landing connects to all the first floor’s rooms. There are four bedrooms. Two of them face south and the other two face east and west respectively. There is also a bathroom and a lavatory. The two south-facing bedrooms each offer a floor area of around 20m². Each one has its own tiled balcony that you reach via a large glazed door. One of these two rooms – the master bedroom – has its own shower room and lavatory. The ceilings are underlined with the same decorative cornices as in the reception room below. In the north-east bedroom, French windows lead out onto a large tiled balcony that extends above the main entrance door. This bedroom also has its own en-suite shower room. The fourth bedroom is smaller. It is currently used as a walk-in wardrobe. Modern sprung wood flooring extends across this level, except in the bathrooms, which are tiled.

The basement
You can reach the basement from inside the house via a small flight of stairs beneath the main staircase or from outside via a few steps leading down from the terrace. Its floor area is exactly the same as that of the ground floor. Its ceiling, at a height of 1.90 metres, is made up of small arches between beams. There is a boiler room for central gas heating, but also a hallway, a large central room into which the inside stairs lead down, a former kitchen or utility room, and two partially wooden-panelled rooms that could easily serve as bedrooms – one of the latter two enjoys extra space from the lower section of the bay-window alcove above it. Each room is filled with natural light from one or several windows.