The landscape is shaped by the confluence of several rivers and the flat towpaths that follow them, a bocage countryside of hedgerows and wooded banks. The property lies near the foothills of the Parc Naturel Régional du Morvan, where woodland gives way to elevated positions with far-reaching views.
The village climbs steeply, its narrow stone-lined streets rising to a broad square at the summit, where an 11th-century church, listed in the catalogue of historic monuments, stands opposite the house. Built around 1750 and set behind an ornate gateway, the maison de maître faces west. A enclosed courtyard, flanked on one side by a woodstore and on the other by two outbuildings housing a workshop, a boiler room and a garage, provides vehicle parking. To the south, a walled and planted park overlooks the Canal du Nivernais, including a heritage orchard and a habitable longère. To the north, facing further outbuildings — a small house, shelters and former rabbit hutches — a well-tended kitchen garden extends alongside. A path leads directly to the inner courtyard. A stone well over 25 m deep, fed by a natural spring, supplies water year-round.
The maison de maître rises over three levels, its facade enlivened by numerous windows framed by semi-louvred timber shutters. The main entrance is marked by a glazed timber door with a glass fanlight, approached by a small stone perron. The roof, laid in traditional Burgundy flat tiles and restored in 2016, carries several chimney stacks. The ground floor holds the main reception rooms and a first bedroom; the upper levels concentrate the sleeping accommodation: five bedrooms on the first, with three bathrooms or shower rooms, and one very large bedroom with bathroom and dressing room on the second, within the converted upper level.
The outbuildings, in stone or brick under traditional or interlocking flat-tile roofs, form a coherent and substantial architectural group.

The main house

The ground floor
The entrance door, glazed and fitted with scrolled ironwork, admits light through its fanlight into the hall, floored in original geometric encaustic tiles. A vestibule leads to the dining room, which has a marble fireplace, oak floorboards, lime-washed walls and exposed beams.
From the main entrance, the first sitting room gives onto exposed stonework set against lime-washed walls, carried through to the surrounds of the original fireplace. A Swiss cast-iron stove now occupies the hearth, resting on original terracotta tiles; above it, a massive beam is supported by two corbels. The floor is laid in wide-board oak.
The second sitting room follows, its walls finished in clay render. The recess of a former fireplace with coloured surrounds now serves as storage, and an original range remains in working order.
Adjacent, the kitchen is flagged in travertine, fitted with cupboards and equipped with a period range. A door opens directly to the kitchen garden.
Returning to the entrance hall, a central oak staircase with a wrought-iron handrail and a decorative newel post rises to the upper levels. Close by, a parqueted bedroom overlooks the park; a pantry nearby is currently being restored.
The first floor
A glazed double door opens from the landing onto a large parqueted hallway, with a stone basin from Vandenesse set into one corner. From here, the principal bedroom, with three windows and a marble fireplace, has ochre walls and a white ceiling. The timber windows have been restored to a high standard and are double-glazed. An en suite bathroom has a spa bath, walk-in shower, wall-hung lavatory, painted walls and red oak floorboards.
Back in the hallway, a child's bedroom overlooks the village church. A third bedroom faces west, with a marble fireplace and partly exposed stone walls; a sliding door leads to a tiled shower room with lavatory.
A corridor gives onto an external terrace in Douglas fir, edged with a timber balustrade, and continues to two further parqueted bedrooms, one facing west, one north. One has fitted wardrobes; the other has its own shower room with lavatory. An intercom serves this level as it does the others.
The attic
The staircase, with a bull's-eye window above the landing, rises to a ceiling clad in pale timber. A moulded double door with black handles opens onto a large room tiled in original terracotta beneath the exposed roof structure; numerous roof windows punctuate the slope above. The roof has been insulated with wood-wool batt faced with poplar boarding. Ceiling height reaches 4.30 m.
The level holds a bedroom, a dressing room with wide-board timber flooring, a storage area and a bathroom paved in terracotta, with a cast-iron claw-foot bath, walk-in shower and lavatory. A Swiss stove heats the room.