Country lanes lead to the property’s entrance gate. This gate takes you onto a drive lined with oaks that stretches one kilometre up to the house. Trees reign here. The wooded areas range from copses to mature woods with many varieties of trees. Their leaves are particularly vivid in colour in autumn, when red, green, yellow and orange tones carpet the ground and when mushroom-pickers are delighted. Moorland covered with heather, ferns and broom add to this unique landscape. The house comes into view far away, by a lake, nestled in the heart of this calm, bucolic backdrop. The dwelling, with its elevations of dressed rubble stone, has a ground floor and a first floor. It is crowned with a roof of flat tiles. Behind it, outbuildings made of stone, brick or timber stand by the lake.

The main house

The house is square in shape. It is crowned with a hipped roof of flat artisanal tiles from Burgundy, dotted with roof windows. The facade is brought out by quoins of local brick and is punctuated with large windows set in surrounds of ashlar, brick or timber. The number of windows heralds a bright interior. The windows have wooden frames and large panes. Some of them are fitted with shutters.

The ground floor
An entrance hall with wood strip flooring leads to a spacious lounge on one side. This lounge is bathed in natural light from a large window. Exposed oak beams run across the ceiling. The walls are made of exposed stonework or small bricks or are half-timbered. These structural materials bear witness to the house’s old age. A floor of broad wood strips extends across the lounge and a stove warms the room up as a complement to the radiators. On the other side of the hallway, there is a bright kitchen fitted with many cupboards. This kitchen is large enough for you to dine in it. An alcove opening leads to a dining room with a fireplace and a floor with original terracotta tiles. The two rooms are filled with natural light from large double-glazed windows. The dining room has a ceiling of exposed joists and beams. The white tone of the walls brings out the authentic oak doorways. One of these doorways leads to a first bedroom, which has the same architectural style with a wall of stonework and small bricks and a ceiling of exposed beams. Back in the dining room, a door leads to a hallway that has been turned into a utility room. Another door leads to a shower room and a lavatory, which have been modernised and have whitened exposed beams that give a certain character to these spaces. A large storage space that you reach from the utility room could be made separate through a separate entrance door that leads into it from outside. This room could be turned into a bedroom or another room for everyday life. A straight staircase leads upstairs.

The upstairs
On the first floor, a vast room that has been restored serves as a reading room and lounge. White walls contrast with the exposed beams of the roof frame and the broad wood strips of the flooring. This space connects to a second bedroom, which is filled with natural light from a double-glazed window that looks out at the environment with its fauna and flora. There are exposed timber beams in this room. A small passageway leads to a third bedroom, which is small. Three windows aligned with each other bring natural light into it. At one end of the lounge, there is a bathroom with a lavatory. It faces one of the property’s lakes. A door leads into a fourth bedroom, where the exposed oak frame of the roof can also be seen. Back in the small passageway, a straight staircase leads up to the roof space, where two other rooms could serve as bedrooms. They have wood strip floors and are filled with natural light from roof windows.