The main house probably dates back to the second half of the 19th century. It stands in front of the circular dovecote dating from 1555, which forms part of its interior layout. The two-storey building is of rendered brick and stone. The upper floor features 3 hip roof dormers with triangular pediments, two of which were recently added. This building is extended at right angles by the section used as an outbuilding, with the same architectural features. The barn and farm doors have been repainted. On this side, wall dormers provide natural light. The gable roof is clad with brown tiles.
Two entrance doors topped by transoms and two paned windows with brick surrounds are arranged rather randomly with respect to the positioning of the dormer windows.
On the facade, a circular stone cartouche, which is older than the house itself, features the monogram of Diane de Poitiers, depicting three interlaced crescent moons. This was the height of the French Renaissance: the dovecote dates back to 1555, when the fame of Diane de Poitiers radiated all the way from Anet, 80 km away, where she had retired.
The dovecote is located at the rear on the platform that rises several metres above the Ozanne river. A large terrace lined with flowers extends along the length of the house, bordering the tower and reaching as far as the wall separating this property from its neighbour. At the foot of the wall, steps lead down to the water and the moored boat.

The house and the dovecote

A gravel path leads from the garden to the entrance of the house. Three approach steps and a glass door lead to an entrance hall of some 10 m², followed by a double door providing access to the lateral corridor serving the reception rooms and the private quarters on either side of the staircase.
There is a 25 m² dining room to the left, with two tall windows and floor tiles reclaimed from a chateau near Blois. To the left of this room is a bright, completely white, 15 m² open-plan kitchen with a range cooker, lit by two paned windows. The semi-glazed partition wall has a central opening roughly two metres wide.
Next follows a 26 m² drawing room with an oak corner library and a red Languedoc marble fireplace. This is the place to immerse yourself in a book, next to the cosy fire. Two paned windows let the daylight stream in. The floor is laid with original diamond-shaped quarry tiles in two tones of muted, golden colours.
On the other side of the staircase, a left-hand passageway converted into a small study leads to the lower part of the dovecote, which has been converted into a round bedroom identical to the one upstairs. The double casement window overlooks the calm waves of the Ozanne. The bathroom on the right, tiled in bevelled white 'metro' or 'Eiffel' tiles, has a window allowing light and air to enter when open.
A guest lavatory has been added in the entrance hall.

The first floor
A wooden half-turn staircase leads to the upper floor. The upper part of the staircase is distinctive in that it offers a view of the empty space on either side of the balustrade, as you look back. There is a cupboard underneath the stairs.
The upper floor has sloping yet fairly high ceilings. The landing, laid with old, red square quarry tiles, forms a sort of central lobby, with the round bedroom of the upper floor of the dovecote on the left. This is accessed via a small passageway, cleverly topped by an interior window, allowing visitors to admire the dovecote's 2,500 nesting holes, the circular, newly lime-rendered walls and the timber frame, all illuminated by a dedicated lighting system. In this region, one nesting hole represented one (French) acre of land, i.e. roughly one half of today's hectare. That gives an idea of the wealth of the owners at the time. The bedroom offers a bird's eye view over the river and the meadows with a few grazing sheep. There is an adjoining closet, and the two bedrooms opposite frame the tiled shower room, which, like the one on the ground floor, has soft, golden ceiling spotlights.
The workhouse
This outbuilding comprises a workshop, where a few plants are kept in winter, a utility room, a boiler room and a wine cellar.
The garden
The garden, covering just under 900 m², stretches lengthways towards the entrance. It is divided into three parts, including a gravel driveway bordered by lawns and trees forming three-quarters of the grounds, leading up to a 19th-century iron fence with a gate dating from the same period in the middle. This patrician feature typical of classical-style country estates, although in this case on a smaller scale, underlines the gradual progression for visitors before they reach the private area, which is symbolically enclosed by the gate.
The remaining grounds are located to the rear of the residence, forming the gravel and flowered terrace that runs alongside the Ozanne and leads down to the small landing stage. During the summer months, roses overflow from the fences and the well surround, while under the rear windows, wisteria and a variety of other flowers scatter their petals over the river in a spectacular display of colour and foliage.