Located on the site of "La Verrerie," the property dates back to 1752 when Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre founded a glass workshop that produced bottles for the wines of Burgundy and Champagne. In 1830, a building was constructed on the site to accommodate the factory director. The entrance to the park, where some of the workshops used to be, is marked by two columns supporting a wrought-iron gate. To the right of the gate is a small house from the 18th-century, and to the left is an old orangery.
The park unfolds around the remains of a circular body of water and was transformed into an acclimatization garden in the 19th century. It features remarkable specimens of plane trees, maritime pines, blue spruces, pagoda trees, and two rows of linden trees that frame a terrace with sweeping views of the surrounding landscape.
The residence is very wide, spanning two levels topped with attics and made up of two parts: from the left, a small, square building with a flat roof due to a later architectural modification, followed by the main body, very elongated, with a two-pitched roof and harmoniously structured with regularly spaced windows and entrance doors across the facade, all of which open onto the park. The "director's house" adopted the typical architectural model of the adjacent old workers' settlement. As a result, the building with windows grouped two by two gives the impression of being composed of numerous small houses attached to each other. The overhanging roof with mechanical tiles and the plastered walls with faux rustication allowed it to blend seamlessly with the glass workshop buildings. Nevertheless, it was indeed a bourgeois residence, featuring both a main entrance and a service entrance.
The house only has windows on its west facing facade as the architect designed it as a series of interconnected rooms. Despite this, the abundance of openings allows for plenty of natural light inside.
The entire property is enclosed by walls facing the street and by hedges elsewhere, ensuring the occupants' tranquility.

The residence

The ground floor
Entrance to the building is possible through three glass doors distributed across the building, each topped with a transom window and preceded by a few steps. The first door, located in the northern part of the building, leads to the kitchen of the currently habitable section of the home, with floors covered in old cement tiles. From this room, which also serves as a dining room, a staircase leads to the upper floor, and a door at the back opens into the current living room, with floors covered in herringbone parquet.
Throughout the building, the rooms are arranged in a row. Next to the living room, an entrance door - probably the former service entrance - opens onto a hallway with a floor covered in cement tiles and the start of a wooden staircase with a wrought iron railing and wooden handrail. Also off of this entrance, there are two rooms of approximately 25m² each with parquet floors and two windows featuring old espagnolettes in the shape of a lion's head. Next, there is the former main entrance hall with a wooden staircase with a quarter turn, a ceiling with exposed beams and joists, and a floor covered partly in mosaics and partly in well-preserved herringbone parquet. Another room of the same dimensions as the previous ones provides access to a final room, from which a spiral staircase starts, and to a restroom; the floors of these latter rooms are all covered in the same well-preserved herringbone parquet, which the upcoming restoration could easily highlight.
The first floor
The second level, accessible via four staircases distributed across the building, includes, in the currently habitable part above the kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom that provides access to two other bedrooms. Only this part of the level is currently suitable for living. The floors of the bedrooms are covered with narrow oak parquet, while the bathroom floor is laid with antique white tiles with green cabochons.
The rest of this level, which requires restoration, features the same number of rooms - six - arranged in the same layout as on the ground floor, with parqueted floors and shorter windows aligned with those below.
The attic
A wooden staircase and a hallway provide access to two attics and four small attic service bedrooms. Each room is lit by skylights or jacobine dormer windows. The floors are covered with terracotta tiles, some of which have been removed for the ongoing renovation work.
The cellar
In the basement, two cellars are lit by small windows. One of the cellars, with a visible entrance door on the facade, can be used as a wine cellar. The other, accessible from the kitchen and through an external door on the north side of the basement, is currently used as a boiler room. The walls are made of stone covered with cement and the ceilings are made of bricks. One of the cellars has a cement floor covered with Burgundy stone tiles while the other has a dirt floor.

The outbuildings

The orangery
At the entrance of the property, an old orangery of approximately 30m² in size faces west and features three fully arched openings that once framed large glass windows.
The caretaker’s accommodation
Opposite the orangery stands a small house of the same era as the rest of the property, with a facade adorned with regularly dispersed, small openings, a carriage door, and a four-sided, mechanical tiled roof. Currently, the ground floor houses a garage and a large room, while the upper floor features three other rooms accessed via a landing and a small hallway. The interior spaces, totaling around 40m², are in need of renovation.