Near a church, a gate between two stone pillars leads onto a drive edged with grassy gardens. This drive takes you to a first house. At the end of the drive, a covered pedestrian entrance leads into a paved courtyard in front of the presbytery. From here, a carriage entrance leads to a grassy pathway that links the church to the start of a majestic drive. This majestic drive leads up to a neighbouring chateau. The presbytery’s foundations date back to the 12th century. It was built in an L shape with flat gable ends. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. In the 14th century, an extension was added in its inner corner. The elevations are made of rubble stone. Ashlar forms the window and door surrounds. The windows and doors on the ground floor are slightly arched. The facade faces south-west. It is punctuated with six bays. Three chimney stacks rise up from the slate roof. Outhouses are dotted around three different gardens. The largest of these gardens extends in front of the presbytery’s facade.

The presbytery

The ground floor
The entrance door leads into a hallway with a spacious shower room and a lavatory. A wooden staircase leads upstairs from this hall. And a corridor connects to all the rooms on the ground floor. On one side, there is a lounge with a stone fireplace and a wood-burning stove. On the other side, there is a dining room and a kitchen. At the end of the corridor, there are two other lounges. Each section has different decorative features. The flooring varies from room to room and includes old stone slabs and terracotta tiles, laid either diagonally, in straight rows or with small square inserts. Pale plastering coats the walls, except in the connecting lounges, which have walls of exposed stonework. The ceiling beams and joists are also sometimes exposed. In the dining room, the exposed beams and joists are remarkable. Also in the dining room, ashlar forms the fireplace’s jambs, corbels and mantelpiece.

The first floor
Halfway up the stairs, some steps lead to a bedroom with a tap. The staircase continues up to a landing that connects to four bedrooms, a bathroom and a lavatory. Wood strip flooring extends across the rooms. The bedrooms are spacious. They are filled with natural light from large windows. Their joists have been concealed and their beams coffered. Each bedroom has a plain fireplace, either made of marble or wood. Three of the bedrooms face the garden. The eastern bedroom was made within an old chapel. Its floor is tiled with old square terracotta tiles. And its joists and thick beams are clearly old. A fireplace has been fitted where there is a pointed arch. And a trilobed arched opening has been showcased. Above this trilobed opening, there is an old wall painting with well-preserved colours. In this painting, you can see a monk, a priest and a prior. You can see other paintings on the walls too.

The attic
The loft space extends across the entire edifice. It is high-ceilinged and showcases the remarkable roof frame. It has an earthen floor. In the walls, you can see intriguing traces of former windows with semicircular or pointed arches. The internal load-bearing walls have archways made of ashlar. You can just about see the trace of a walled-up pointed-arch opening in the chapel’s eastern wall, behind a fireplace of rubble stone and ashlar. This roof space could be converted. Research into it could also cast light upon the mysterious past of this edifice.

The gîte and its extension

There is a house and, in line with it, an extension that is lower in height. These two sections stand alongside the drive that leads up to the covered entrance and the presbytery. The house has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. Its elevations are made of rubble stone. Its windows, with their imposing stone lintels, are rectangular. Three bays punctuate the house’s facade. And at each end of the house, a chimney stack rises up from its gabled slate roof. The extension’s facade is built similarly. It has two slightly arched doors. Each of these archways has a semicircular discharging arch above it. And above these discharging arcs, there are two windows.

The ground floor
You step into a vast room with an open-plan kitchen. The floor is adorned with pale tiles. The walls are painted white. Exposed beams run across the ceiling. An imposing stone fireplace stands in one wall. Its wooden mantelpiece rests upon corbels of carved stone. It has a wood-burning stove. A quarter-turn staircase leads upstairs. And on either side of the fireplace, there is a door: one leads into a utility room and the other one leads into a bathroom with a lavatory.

The first floor
The staircase has a sculpted handrail. It leads up to a landing. Wood strip flooring extends across this landing. The walls are white and the ceiling’s exposed beams are coffered. The landing connects to two bedrooms, a small room and a spacious lavatory. A door leads to a staircase that takes you up to the loft space.

The attic
The loft space is extensive and has a tall ceiling height that stretches all the way up to the roof ridge. This loft space could easily be converted. Wood strip flooring extends across it.

The outhouse
In the extension, there are two rooms with an earthen floor. They are used for storage. In the second one, a wooden staircase leads up to the roof space. This roof space is insulated and bathed in natural light from two windows and four skylights. It has been converted into a vast lounge with an open-plan kitchen and a bathroom. Wood strip flooring extends across the room and exposed stonework forms the walls. A stove heats the space up.