In the royal city of Amboise,
a town house with a court-garden, terrace and garage
Amboise, INDRE-ET-LOIRE center-val-de-loire 37400 FR

Location

Set in the historic province of Centre-Val de Loire, in the Indre-et-Loire département — whose valley is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List — the house occupies a central position in the royal city of Amboise. The city, dominated by its celebrated château, is sought after for its vitality and quality of life. All services, shops and restaurants are within walking distance, as is the railway station, from which Paris is reached in 1 hour 50 minutes. The A10 motorway connects to the capital in 2 hours 30 minutes.

Description

Set on a quiet one-way street, the house runs north to south. With a floor area of approximately 310 m², it rises over two levels with a converted upper level above. The principal facade, with its off-centre entrance door, combines tuffeau (a soft white limestone quarried in the Loire valley) at ground-floor level with a chequerboard arrangement of brick and tuffeau on the first level. The remaining elevations are rendered. The slate roofs are gabled, pierced by roof windows and finished with a dentil cornice. To the south, the walled court-garden is enclosed by stone walls and planted with flowering beds, shrubs and climbing roses. The garage, set in the gable wall, is reached from a lane running alongside the house. On the ground floor, an entrance corridor serves a drawing room to one side and a bedroom with shower room and lavatory to the other, then extends to a sitting room with glazed doors opening onto the court-garden, and a kitchen. On the first level, a landing serves four bedrooms, a bathroom with lavatory and a shower room with lavatory. On the upper level, a 100 m² converted space has been fitted out. It comprises an artist's studio, a sitting room, a library and a shower room with lavatory. The rooms are generously lit by a glazed roof light, roof windows and a glazed door opening onto a terrace. The house also has two vaulted cellars.

The house


The ground floor
The timber street door opens onto a corridor with a stone-cabochon floor beneath a coffered ceiling. To either side, doors lead to the drawing room and to a bedroom with shower room and lavatory. The drawing room has two windows, chevron parquet floors and a moulded ceiling centred on a rose. The bedroom, with a single window, has terracotta tile floors. Beyond, the corridor continues past the staircase to the sitting room, where a carved wooden fireplace and dado panelling set the tone; glazed doors open directly onto the court-garden. A double glazed door connects to the kitchen. Here the floors are tiled and the beams, left exposed, are painted.
The first floor
The staircase gives onto a landing serving four bedrooms, one of which has a shower room and lavatory, together with a bathroom with lavatory. The floors are laid in straight-laid parquet, terracotta tiles or sisal. The bath and shower rooms are tiled. Marble and wooden fireplaces are installed in three of the bedrooms. Exposed beams feature in one of them.
The attic
With its exposed roof structure, the upper level is fitted out as a loft. Split levels divide it into distinct zones. The artist's studio occupies the upper platform. Below, the first sitting room faces a glazed door opening onto the south-facing terrace. The reading room is set to one side. A glazed roof light, roof windows and further glazed openings flood the whole level with light.

The basement
A staircase from the garage descends to a first room of approximately 50 m², leading through to a second of nearly 40 m² and a final room of around 7 m². The two larger rooms are built in tuffeau, vaulted and aerated by cellar vents.

The garden

The gravelled terrace extends directly from the sitting room into the court-garden, which rises slightly beyond and is densely planted. A small lean-to at the far end stores garden equipment.

Our opinion

The facade gives little away. Inside, period materials have been preserved throughout, and the house proves more various than its exterior suggests: reception rooms opening onto a walled court-garden, a converted upper level generous enough for a studio, a library or both, and two vaulted tuffeau cellars that add a further singular note. What makes it compelling is not any single feature but the coherence of the whole — and how readily it adapts to the life its occupants choose to live in it.

840 000 €
Fees at the Vendor’s expense


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Reference 631673

Land registry surface area 247 m²
Main building floor area 310 m²
Number of bedrooms 5

French Energy Performance Diagnosis


Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the website: www.georisques.gouv.fr

Consultant

Éric Baudran +33 1 42 84 80 85

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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.