The property lies on high ground in the town. The view here stretches several dozen kilometres south-west towards Caen and Normandy’s Côte fleurie coastline. From the street, a ramp leads to a parking area on one side of the villa with a garage and service entrance door. The villa was built in 1929 in line with the resort’s development by Parisian businessman Georges Dufayel. The elegant edifice has all the traits of the neo-Norman style of architecture: half-timbering, steep roofs with overhangs, complexity and dissymmetry in the forms, corbelling, bay windows, balconies and large picture windows that look out at the sea and garden. The interior, on the other hand, is more classical in design with a layout typical of an upper-middle-class dwelling. The spaces are organised and well-structured. The everyday spaces and the more private rooms are distinct. The garden extends mainly in front of the main entrance door, facing the sea, and on the opposite side too. Behind the villa, the hillside has been partially stone-laid and is dotted with specific clusters of plants. Steps lead down from the home to the street.

The villa

The basement
In the basement, the decor of the entrance area reflects the elegance, sturdiness and practicality of the whole villa. A service entrance door leads into the basement hallway. The walls and floor are covered with pale square stone tiles, as is the flight of backstairs, including its risers. There is discreet lighting and a round timber handrail is fixed with brass rings. The space is brightened up with a window of glass blocks. The hall leads to a garage, which is big enough to house three vehicles, and to a boiler room, a lavatory, a wine cellar and storage spaces. At the other end, on the garden side, there is a spacious games room that leads outside.

The ground floor
Facing the sea, a flight of steps leads to a passageway with four openings with an arch. Among them, there is the entrance door and French windows. At this level, the floor is covered with large pale square tiles. The door, framed between coloured panes, leads into a hallway, which, on one side, connects to a dining room with a bay window and an ashlar fireplace. On the other side, it takes you to a lounge and reading room. Large windows that face the sea on the south and west sides bathe all the rooms in natural light. Wood can be seen everywhere, with herringbone parquet in the dining room, tall book shelving in the reading room, and exposed beams and joists in the lounge, where an imposing timber staircase leads upstairs. Cornices edge the ceilings and windows. The hallway also connects to a spacious, elegant lavatory and to a kitchen with annexe rooms and a flight of backstairs – all at the rear of the villa.

The first floor
You reach the first floor via the main staircase, which is bathed in natural light from tall, rectangular windows of coloured panes and with English-style catches. The first-floor windows all face the sea. Wood strip flooring has been covered with a thick carpet. A corridor leads to a landing area with a bedroom and a bathroom brightened up with a bull’s-eye window and to the main bedroom with a bathroom and lavatory. The decoration is typical of the 1960s with floors and walls covered with glass-paste enamel. The bathrooms also reflect this period. At the other end of the corridor, an opening with a wrought-iron surround leads to a hallway, a lavatory and two bedrooms with French windows leading out onto the same balcony. The hallway also leads to two small spare rooms with a tap and to the backstairs.

The top floor
The second floor has sloping attic ceilings. You can reach it via the backstairs or via a door at the end of a walkway that leads to a road looking down at the villa. The rooms are filled with natural light from broad shed dormers. The whole second floor is made up of two dwellings on both sides of a hallway. The first one has a spacious bedroom with a full bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe, as well as another bedroom with a shower room. A long corridor connects to these rooms. Next, there is a lounge, a kitchen and a bathroom with a lavatory, as well as four bedrooms, one of which has a bathroom and lavatory.