You enter the property via a covered carriage gateway with stone pillars and a tiled roof. The painted wooden gate leads into a gravelled court with plants. On the right, there is a French formal garden with white rose bushes. This little garden adds a touch of refinement to the edifice. The chateau is typical of the 16th-century Provençal architectural style. It has been restored to preserve its Ardèche charm. It has a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space, which could be converted. It faces north and south. Its plain elevations are made of dressed stone that has been lime-rendered. These elevations are punctuated with rectangular windows set in white surrounds. The windows are fitted with shutters painted green. Hipped and gabled roofs of barrel tiles crown the edifice. These roofs are underlined with triple-row génoise cornices. Concrete terraces edge the edifice on its south and west sides. The east wing, to which the chateau is linked via its north-east corner, houses a caretaker’s house and an orangery beneath an apartment. Forming an L shape, this east wing is extended with a paved terrace on its south side and, like the main section of the chateau, it displays the architectural characteristics that are typical of Provençal houses: rendered stone elevations and roofs of local tiles with one or two slopes. The wing used to be a stable for horses. It was built at the same time as the chateau. Later, it was later turned into an orangery. The whole edifice is surrounded by one hectare of grounds that include trimmed hedges, a Japanese pond, a swimming pool with a view of the River Payre valley and a former tennis court. Walking trails runs through the grounds and an oak forest edges it. So it is the perfect backdrop for nature lovers. For the past 20 years, the chateau has been a guesthouse. It became a guesthouse following roughly 10 years of renovation work on it. As a guesthouse, it offers seven bedrooms, five of which have been transformed for hosting guests and have their own private bathrooms. Its rooms mix old furniture units, fine Provençal quilting and lime-plastered walls, making the interior particularly charming. All the roofs and the second-floor insulation were renovated a few years ago. And all the windows are double-glazed.

The chateau

The ground floor
The entrance door leads into a spacious hallway with a groin-vaulted ceiling. This hall connects to the different reception rooms on the ground floor. These reception rooms connect to each other. First, there is a former kitchen with a floor and walls of dressed stone. Next, there is a large dining room. Like the kitchen, it has a groin-vaulted ceiling and a floor of old terracotta tiles. Further on, there is a large lounge with a stone fireplace. This south-facing lounge leads to an old chapel, which has been turned into an office. Then there is a reading room with a terracotta-tiled floor, a small bedroom with the same flooring and a marble fireplace beneath a trumeau panel with columns and an entablature of mouldings, and, lastly, an adjoining bathroom, housed in a tower that faces south-west. An artist’s studio connects to the reading room and dining room. This studio leads out through French windows to the south terrace and the grounds that lie beyond it.

The first floor
You reach the first floor via a plain staircase of solid stone that leads up from the entrance hall. The stairs lead to a large hallway that connects, via a terracotta-tiled corridor, to seven bedrooms, most of which have a terracotta-tiled floor and some of which have wood strip flooring. Five of them have a bathroom with a lavatory, one of them does not, and another one currently serves as a utility room. All of the bedrooms look out at either the court or the garden. Some of them have coffered beamed ceilings and marble fireplaces beneath trumeau panels with mouldings. Lastly, on an intermediate landing, there is a shared shower room with a lavatory.

The second floor
From the first floor, a staircase leads up to the second floor, which is a roof space. This roof space could be converted.

The orangery and apartment

From a track that runs alongside the property, a separate door leads into the orangery on the east side. A door also leads into it from a terrace on its south side. This orangery has been turned into a reception room on the ground floor, beside a garage that you can enter from the track too. Upstairs, an apartment has been created. This apartment has a lounge, a kitchen, a bedroom and a bathroom.

The ground floor
The 70m² orangery has a vaulted ceiling and looks out at the court through two large arched French windows. It has stone walls and a terracotta-tiled floor. It has been redesigned for receptions and seminars. A cloakroom and lavatory have been added for visitors. These two rooms connect to a garage with space for two cars.

The upstairs
An apartment, which could be used as a winter dwelling, has been created on the first floor. Its large lounge, currently used as a workshop, lies above the orangery and has a stove, a terracotta-tiled floor and a ceiling of exposed beams. The apartment also has a kitchen, a small bedroom and a bathroom with a lavatory.

The caretaker’s house

The ground floor
To the left of the covered entrance gate, there is a small dwelling in part of the east wing. You can enter it from outside via a wooden door with glazing. On the ground floor there is a lounge with a kitchenette. Wood strip flooring extends across this space. A straight stone staircase leads upstairs.

The upstairs
Upstairs, there is a small bedroom and a bathroom with a lavatory. These rooms have the same wood strip flooring as downstairs.