The edifice stands in the heart of the village, at the foot of the old feudal castle’s remains. It faces traces of excavated cave spaces. Its remarkable, authentic facade with two flights of sandstone front steps edged with a wrought-iron balustrade looks down at the road. On the south side, its rear elevation is lined with a raised terrace that looks down at a garden with walls along its sides. The River Saône edges the garden lengthways. The house is extended with outbuildings crowned with tiled roofing. These include a workshop, a garage, a former secondary dwelling, a woodstore, a stable and a former bakehouse.

The house

The edifice was built in 1809. It is rectangular in shape and has four levels. Its elevations are made of rubble stone and dressed stone. The windows are evenly spread out symmetrically and most of them have kept their original frames. The building is crowned with a tiled hipped roof with three dormers. The two doorbells that frame the entrance double door beneath its finely crafted glazed fanlight are a token of the house’s former purpose as both a dwelling and a business. The plinth course includes three ground-level doors that lead down to the cellars. Another door leads into a cart shelter with an arched entrance bearing the inscription “Bureau” (“Office”) in capital letters. On the south side, the rear elevation is punctuated with windows in the same arrangement as on the opposite side. A vine climbs up it. A long terrace with a wrought-iron balustrade edges this wall. The terrace looks out at the garden and the landscape beyond it.

The first level
The entrance double door stands at the top of the front flight of steps. It has kept all its original iron fittings. It leads into a spacious hallway that runs all the way through the edifice to the garden at the back. From this hallway, two stone staircases with wrought-iron balusters rise up in symmetry to the first floor. On the left, a first door leads to a kitchen with original stone-slab flooring. It has a stone sink, wooden-panelled cupboards that take up an entire wall and an imposing stone fireplace. An adjoining scullery has wood strip flooring and a flight of wooden backstairs that leads upstairs. This scullery lies beside a dining room that faces the garden. The dining room’s chevron parquet, clock and wooden wall panelling with an integrated fireplace create the old ambience of traditional family homes. On the garden side, there is a second room with wood strip flooring. It is bathed in natural light and has a stone fireplace. It leads to a bathroom with a lavatory beneath the flight of backstairs. To the right of the hallway, a first door leads to a pantry with stone-slab flooring. It has a stone sink beneath blue and white ceramic tiles, an imposing stone fireplace and a wall of painted wooden panelling that integrates cupboards. It connects to a flight of backstairs, a reading room and a lounge. The latter has characteristics like the dining room. From this lounge, French windows, framed between two corner cupboards, lead out onto the terrace. To the right of this room, there is a reading room, which also has wood strip flooring. This room used to be an office dedicated to the site’s professional activities. Indeed, it has kept its layout. It leads to the cart shelter below it and looks down at it from its wrought-iron balustrade. There is a separate way into it from the garden-level floor via a wooden staircase in good condition.

The second level
The landing has a floor of stone slabs and a view of the garden. On both sides, it connects harmoniously to three bedrooms with oak strip flooring. Each of these bedrooms has a distinct personality. They have wardrobes and ornamental wooden wall panelling that integrates a fireplace, a stove niche and an alcove. At the two ends of this level, there is a bathroom and a lavatory that you can reach on both sides and two storerooms with respective flights of backstairs that lead up to the roof space. A small lounge bathed in natural light lies above the entrance hall and forms a link between the two parts.

The attic
The loft spaces are in good condition. They have floors of broad wood strips and many windows with views of the garden, bathing the rooms in natural light and opening up the possibility of new purposes. One of the loft spaces still has its domestic staff bedroom, as well as other household installations.

The basement
There are five cellars. You can reach them either from a trapdoor at the back of the hallway or from outside from the road. The foundations and the different openings bear witness to origins that predate today’s house. An ingenious system down here makes it possible for spring water to be brought into the home.