Location
In the Pays de la Loire region and the department of Maine-et-Loire, the property is set in a village near the riverbank. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The property is less than 10 minutes from a small town with all essential shops and amenities. Saumur and its railway station, providing a link to Paris via Tours, are approximately 30 minutes away. The A85 and A87 motorways are easily accessible and provide connections to Angers and Cholet in under 45 minutes.
Description
The manor house
The ground floor
The tower door opens onto an entrance hall with two doors leading to a living room and a dining room, as well as a stone spiral staircase. The living room connects to the dining room, a study and a corridor leading to a bedroom with a shower room and toilet. The dining room leads to a kitchen, followed by a utility room and a passageway to a summer dining area situated under the canopy of a terrace at the rear of the manor house. A staircase leads to the first floor of the north wing. The kitchen is connected to a service entrance with a toilet, a utility room, a cloakroom, a laundry room and a boiler room. The service entrance and the laundry room open directly onto the courtyard. The floors of the living room, dining room and study are tiled in terracotta and the ceilings are French-style. Two tuffeau stone fireplaces are set against the walls of the living room and dining room. The one in the dining room, listed as a historic monument, dates back to the 15th century. The walls of the study are panelled with 18th-century woodwork, whilst those of the other rooms are simply whitewashed.
The first floor
A landing leads to two bedrooms, each with a shower room and toilet. In the first, which has an adjoining wardrobe, Louis XV-style panelling with an alcove adorns the walls. In the other, an original half-timbered wall has been preserved and restored. The floors are tiled in terracotta and the ceilings are French-style. Both rooms also feature a tuffeau stone fireplace, one of which, listed as a Historic Monument, dates back to the 15th century. It is adorned with a carved male head and a monkey. Finally, two further bedrooms with exposed beams, bathrooms and toilets are housed in the building extending from the north gable of the manor house, above the kitchen and its utility room.
The attic
A landing provides access to a wardrobe, two bedrooms (one of which has no external windows), a shower room with a toilet, and an attic of approximately 12 m².
The outbuildings
The first building, preceded by an enclosed courtyard, has a slate roof. It is a two-storey structure, including an attic, accessed via an external stone staircase. The second, with a tiled roof, has two storeys, including an original vaulted cellar. These buildings house a double garage of over 55 m², a workshop of some 36 m², an attic of 36 m² and a cellar of approximately 35 m².
The gardens and woodland
A wide, grassed driveway lined with hornbeams runs alongside geometric boxwood beds. The path divides the garden into two large sections covering an area of approximately 7,000 m² and opens up a view of the nearly 2 hectares of neighbouring woodland, which forms part of the estate but which is separated by a road. On one side of the path, the garden is formal, featuring a series of green spaces composed of yews, boxwood and hornbeams. On the other side, a wooded and steep slope descends to the River Layon and then climbs back up towards the rear of the manor house to an English-style perennial garden and a swimming pool measuring approximately 4.5 m by 9 m. Pathways link these different areas, which also conceal a grotto, a water wall, waterfalls, a pond and fountains.
Our opinion
In a quiet village, less than an hour from Saumur, Angers or Cholet, a remarkable Angevin manor house listed as a Historic Monument, emblematic of 15th- and 16th-century French architecture. Restoration work, undertaken in the 1980s on the exterior, has restored the elegant main building—flanked by a tall stone stair tower—to its former grandeur. The interior renovations, carried out in the 1990s, focused on preserving the property’s authentic atmosphere and decor. Finally, the gardens, with their varied settings, which have been carefully laid out and maintained, are filled with the murmur of the fountains and the river that winds its way at the foot of the property.
Reference 570881
| Land registry surface area | 2 ha 55 a 38 ca |
| Main building floor area | 425 m² |
| Number of bedrooms | 5 |
| Outbuildings floor area | 160 m² |
NB: The above information is not only the result of our visit to the property; it is also based on information provided by the current owner. It is by no means comprehensive or strictly accurate especially where surface areas and construction dates are concerned. We cannot, therefore, be held liable for any misrepresentation.