A road winding past fields leads to the property, with the slender silhouette of the dovecote looming into view first. A gravelled drive leads to the house, whose lawned garden is organised around the three main elements of the property: the former farmhouse, the swimming pool - installed during the restoration - and the dovecote at the southeastern tip of the plot. The property overlooks the neighbouring fields lined by trees with tall branches. The L-shaped building, which is spread over two and three storeys, encloses a courtyard protected from the road by a stone wall and a small annex housing the hamlet’s former bread oven. The stone slabs on the patio in the shade of a young oak also run all around the house.
The old farmhouse’ volume has been carefully rearranged to create a more fluid interior layout. A stone flight of steps to the old residence has been preserved, even if the entrance to the house is via one of the two French windows on the ground floor. They lead into a lounge and to a staircase that climbs upstairs, while a corridor leads to the dining room and kitchen. Upstairs, three bedrooms and a bathroom occupy the space and open onto the garden and surrounding countryside. In one of the bedrooms, which is part of the restored old residence, there is still an imposing stone fireplace. In the corridor nearby, the remains of a stone sink have also been preserved. Above, there is a fourth bedroom in the attic space, overlooking the courtyard.
The rear of the main building can still be reached by a corridor on the ground floor running along the length of the house. It opens onto a small studio with a shower room, as well as onto an upper floor with a bedroom below the sloping ceiling and exposed roof frame. There is also a barn, housing an old cistern, that could be used as a garage.

The farmhouse

In the beginning, this former farmhouse faithful to the customs of the Cordes countryside was made up of a small residence on the upstairs of one of the wings overlooking the courtyard. It could be reached by a flight of stone steps with a stone parapet that is still in use today. The lintel above the entrance door is the original one and bears the date when the farm was built: 1893. Around the residence, there used to be farm buildings and two outbuildings, laid out in a functional manner typical of the region’s farms. The restoration carried out in the 1980s unified the hitherto disjointed volumes to create a more coherent whole suited to modern usage. The façades of limestone rubble have been preserved and restored with care by the most skilful of stonemasons. The door and windows also still boast their original lintels, in ashlar or wood. At the top of the elevations, a restored double genoise corbel discretely underlines the rural character and architectural authenticity of this 19th-century edifice.

The ground floor
The house can be entered through several French windows leading to different rooms: a lounge, the kitchen or a studio. In the lounge with exposed beams, a fireplace stands against one of the walls. With a wooden mantel piece, its jambs and protruding base are made of limestone slabs. The rubble stone wall is exposed on this side of the room to enhance the place’s rustic atmosphere. Opposite, a corridor leads to the dining room, which boasts a brick fireplace with a wooden mantelpiece. This room opens directly onto the garden. The exposed beams and coffered joists accentuate the depth of the room. Next to the dining room, the generously dimensioned kitchen has a lower ceiling giving an impression of slightly lower volume. It opens directly onto the patio that surrounds the swimming pool.
A second corridor to the rear of the house leads to several different spaces. On one side, there is a small open studio, which can be reached separately by French windows, overlooking the fields below. It includes a cabinet with a sink and the connections required for installing a small kitchen. It also has a shower room with a lavatory. On the other side, a door leads to a vast former barn without an upper floor. This generous volume boasts a large opening fitted with a triple leaf door topped by a fixed fanlight window. It has the capacity for parking a vehicle. The former cistern, which can be reached from inside the barn, forms a small appendix to the northeast of the house.
The upstairs
A wooden staircase climbs from the lounge to a first part of the upper level that is set around the courtyard. A hall leads on one side to a large bedroom, over which the attic space has been opened, providing a generous ceiling height and exposed roof frame. The two windows look out onto the crown of the oak tree in the courtyard. Next to it, there is a bathroom, with a double washbasin, a bath and a lavatory, also overlooking the courtyard as well as the trees in the garden.
On the opposite side, the hall leads to two bedrooms separated by a small intermediate staircase. The first has been laid out to house two single beds and could be ideal for a children’s bedroom. In the second one, located in the old residence, the period fireplace immediately attracts the gaze, with its ashlar jambs and wooden mantelpiece. In the adjacent corridor, there are still the vestiges of a stone sink near to the original entrance, which is still in use.
A fifth bedroom can be reached via a second staircase that can in turn be reached from the corridor to the rear of the ground floor leading to the back of the building. The room is located in the attic space, on the same level as the upper floor, but with a lower ceiling, which still boasts the oakwood roof frame. A load-bearing wall, made of exposed rubble limestone, captures the low-angled light that streams through the window, revealing the raw nuances of the stonework. It looks out over the green landscape, as with the other bedrooms in the house.
The attic
A small staircase between the two bedrooms on the upper floor leads to a third bedroom in the attic space of the old residence, from which the view encompasses the courtyard and external flight of stone steps that are visible below. In one of the corners of the room, there are regularly shaped holes in the masonry. These were the old entrance holes of the former pigeon loft. The addition of small windows has ensured that they remain visible.