This property, in a street just a stone’s throw from the main square, is set back behind its walls, topped with railings.
Enhanced by an esplanade and a white gravel pathway which winds through the greenery, the main house is separated from its outbuilding by an open courtyard.
This fully enclosed property features a garden side overlooking the street and parklands at the back. It is extended by a green open space where the general public can stroll.

The middle-class home

Typical of the traditional constructions on the Cotentin peninsula, the facades of this house are built of white lime-pointed shale stone with dressed stone quoins and lintels.
The gable, natural slate roof features a ridge with a wrought ceramic crest. The regularly-spaced chimney stacks indicate the load-bearing walls between the gales.
This large, luxurious, 2-storey home adjoins a one-storey building and extends at right angles to the parklands. The floors are enhanced by vertically aligned, tall, rectangular openings which have wooden frames and solid or slatted shutters.
The entrance has double doors topped with a glazed fanlight.
A courtyard stretches between the outbuilding and the house, a high wall featuring an opening with two pillars topped with stone balls forming the third side.

The ground floor
The entrance hall acts as a link between the two buildings. It features a stairway taken from a local 12th century castle.
On one side is a series of adjoining rooms and, on the other, the dining room which leads to the rooms in the section set at right angles. A heavy wrought door beneath the stairs conceals a discrete corridor under the landing.
Heavy varnished wood doors, lined with two more painted doors, open into a first lounge, followed by an adjoining second one. Both double aspect rooms have painted walls with a wooden lower section and fireplaces; one being Directoire-style and, the other, Louis XV style.
A bedroom with a fireplace and a shower room with a toilet are at the end of the adjoining rooms. All have underfloor central heating.
The dining room features a fireplace with a carved wood trumeau and a closed hearth fire. The painted walls have a wooden lower section, all enhanced by coloured cement floor tiles.
The kitchen, behind the dining room, is followed by a storeroom and a laundry room which was once the sole bathroom in the house. The bathroom fixtures and fittings are still in place.
The kitchen, like all the ground floor rooms, has a double aspect and is extremely luminous. A door opens into the courtyard and a terrace can be used for taking meals outside, sheltered from onlookers and the wind.
There is also a very large cellar and a conservatory which faces the tennis court.

The first floor
The 12th century monumental stairway, which was no doubt installed during the 18th century, is one of the major features of the house. With wide shallow steps and landings adorned with old doors concealing cupboards, its wrought baluster and newel post form wooden sculptures enhancing the open section of the stairway.
Up two steps on the first floor landing is a long corridor which runs the length of the facade. It provides access to four bedrooms, one of which has its own shower room and toilet. A shower room with a toilet is at the end of this corridor.
All the bedrooms look out over the parklands and receive sunlight throughout the day courtesy of their tall windows.
All the rooms on this floor have painted walls and ceilings with natural wood parquet flooring.

The second floor
The landing on this floor which is under the rafters provides access to three bedrooms and a toilet.
All the rooms are separated by white lime-pointed, exposed stone load-bearing walls and have sloping, painted plaster ceilings. There is natural wood parquet flooring throughout.
Luminosity is provided by skylights looking out over the parklands.