Within the valleys and terraces of France’s own Tuscany, the property stretches over around fifteen hectares. A long drive lined with hundred-year-old plane trees descends gently to a double-leaf gate marking the entrance to the estate.
A gravelled drive then leads to the manor house whose origins date back to the 17th century. It was a farm at the time and already belonged to the current owners’ family. In the 19th century, an ancestor decided to renovate the edifice in the Basque style that she was very keen on. The east-west oriented, three-storey edifice was built overlooking the former bed of the River Garonne, benefiting from views over the surrounding fields.
The estate keeper’s house is set back slightly, as is an enclosure and outbuildings, while an agricultural storage building stands to the south, partially converted into accommodation for the tenant farmers. All the buildings, made of terracotta bricks, adobe bricks and river pebbles, topped by roofs of flat interlocking tiles or barrel tiles, are spread harmoniously between the garden, meadows and agricultural land. Lastly, the garden is adorned with a spring flowing into a pond, a swimming pool and a tennis court.
While the original volumes and period features have been duly respected, the buildings now require complete renovation to be carried out to render them habitable and comfortable. Its geographical location, extent and the diversity of its various indoor and outdoor spaces provide it with potential for plenty of purposes.

The manor house

It is spread over three storeys and approximately 720 m². Its architecture is classical, with regular rendered facades punctuated by rectangular windows fitted with green-painted wooden shutters. Beautiful light streams into the upper floors throughout the day. The window and door surrounds, stringcourses and quoins stand out thanks to white rendering. Its hipped roof made of interlocking tiles is topped by five pink brick chimney stacks, while ten dormers allow light to stream into the loft.
To the east, the views over the meadows and fields in the lower part of the estate can be enjoyed from a patio. The grounds stretch out around the house’s three other elevations.

The ground floor
A flight of steps climbs up to the main entrance through a double-leaf door set slightly to the right of the centre. It opens into a hall illuminated by a four-leaf window and adorned, from floor to ceiling, with chessboard patterned black and white cement tiles bordered by a frieze of fleur-de-lys and scrolls, white and light yellow geometrically patterned wainscotting and exposed joists painted white.
To the left, the hall leads to a study, into which gentle light filters from the west through two single leaf and one four-leaf windows, all with glazed fanlights. The decoration is of medieval inspiration, marked by a wooden and pink brick troubadour style fireplace in the middle of one of the walls. The lintel boasts an opulently sculpted decoration of a trio of lozenge-shaped panels with acanthus leaves in the centre, palm leaf motifs, floral cabochons in the corner of each panel and a frieze of scrolls formed by acanthus foliage. The chessboard patterned floor is made up of beige and ochre cement tiles decorated with chivalric motifs and heraldry featuring a wolf’s head. The brightness of the room is enhanced by the white-painted exposed joists.
The study leads to a secondary entrance, which houses the main staircase. To the east, a large opening leads to a first lounge and then a second. Their adjoining wall, framed by two passages, is occupied on both sides by a white marble fireplace with light grey veining. These lounges, with coffered ceilings, are bathed in light thanks to five windows. The three rooms cover a surface of more than 80 m².
Just off the second lounge, there is a shower room, while opposite the first, on the other side of the secondary hall, there is a dining room, boasting views of the patio, with pastel green and yellow wall mouldings, a white-painted pink brick and wooden fireplace, the same floor tiles as in the lounges and a triple coffered ceiling.
Lastly, the dining room opens onto a passage to the rear that leads to a former office boasting a black marble fireplace with grey veining and wood stripped flooring, a boiler room, a service staircase, a lavatory, plus a kitchen with an adjoining pantry, both with terracotta floor tiles, and a wooden fireplace occupying an entire wall.
The upstairs
The light-coloured, wooden, main staircase with balustrades climbs to a landing that forms a T-shape with a wide corridor. To the left, the corridor leads to four bedrooms, a lavatory, a bathroom and a shower room, before reaching the service staircase. To the right, it also leads to four bedrooms as well as a lounge, through which there is a shower room and a bathroom. The bedrooms are all bathed in light and most of them possess a separate lavatory and a wooden or marble fireplace. One of them stands out thanks to its eclectic Napoleon III style, boasting a black marble mantelpiece with white veining, Doric columns framing the hearth and a fireback made of blue Delft or Rouen style tiles, depicting bouquets of roses, foliage and birds in shades of blue and yellow.
The flooring is made up of an alternation of English bond and chevron parquet. The ceilings are surrounded by sober mouldings.
The attic
The service staircase climbs to a landing that leads to an approximately 245-m² level that is partially habitable and includes three rooms at each end of the building. The centre is occupied by a non-converted open-plan area with exposed floorboards and roof frame.