The property is entirely walled and sits on a 3,500 m² plot at the corner of two streets. Its entrance gate opens onto a large courtyard with trees, and small outbuildings line it on both sides. The manor house is at the centre of the plot. It has two levels beneath a hipped roof in flat beavertail tiles (Biberschwanz), with gabled dormers and chimney stacks topped with decorative pots. An extensive garden behind the house is laid out on either side of a central path.

The manor house

A symmetrical five-bay courtyard facade faces east, with a double entrance door at its centre. The garden elevation to the west is also symmetrical, with five bays. A central French window on the ground floor opens onto the garden, and a second on the upper level leads out to a stone balcony with a wrought-iron railing. Each side elevation has three bays: the south one includes a service door, while several openings on the north one are now blocked up. Every opening in the house has a surround in pink Vosges sandstone, and the casement windows have exterior shutters.

The ground floor
The vestibule is flagged in Vosges sandstone and leads to the sitting room. This room receives abundant natural light from a French window and two windows, and the view takes in the garden. It retains its original wide floorboards and two semi-domed niches, which once housed a wood-burning stove and are crowned with rocaille decorative elements in staff. The room also has a typically 18th-century staircase with carved oak balusters, three flights, and two landings. A pantry on the south side of the sitting room adjoins the sandstone-flagged kitchen, and a further room connects with the vestibule. The north side has a bedroom and then a small secluded room, which also connects with the vestibule.

The upstairs
The landing at the top of the grand staircase leads to a large room with the same floor area as the sitting room below. This room takes its light from two windows and a French window that opens onto the ornate balcony. It has a stone fireplace. Two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a lavatory complete the level. Most of the rooms retain their original wide fir floorboards.

The attic
A miller's ladder leads to this level, which takes its light from dormers, is partly fitted out, and includes a staff bedroom.

The outbuildings

They are on either side of the courtyard and the manor house. The south building, backing onto the boundary wall, comprises three small rooms en enfilade that once housed the caretakers. A range along the property's north boundary contains, in succession, a shed, a former loosebox, a garage, a woodstore, a storage area, and a habitable room.

The cellars

A large arched door reached from the woodstore in the north range opens onto a sandstone staircase that leads to the first of the two cellars. This cellar has a segmental stone vault and sits beneath part of the courtyard and outbuildings. The second cellar beyond it, also under a segmental stone vault, extends beneath the manor house's entire footprint. Their considerable size reflects their historical role as tithe cellars, where the tax farmer collected the levy on the surrounding area's wine production in kind.

The garden

Walls enclose the garden, which is laid out around a central path and planted with a variety of trees and shrubs. A bench built from blocks of pink Vosges sandstone stands there. It is modelled on the King of Rome benches (“bancs du roi de Rome”). Saint-Nicolas Church is very close by, and its bell tower overlooks the site.

A little history

The manor house was built in the 18th century for the tax farmer of the time. Eugène de Coëhorn, a First Empire general whom Napoleon nicknamed “the Alsatian Bayard”, bought it in 1798. The property has remained in the same family ever since.