A small road running alongside the River Gapeau, parallel to the thoroughfare between Solliès-Pont and Solliès-Toucas, through a residential neighbourhood, leads to the property’s entrance on a hillside. The house perched in the upper reaches of the plot, behind a wrought-iron gate, stands out in the middle of a wooded environment made up of oak, pines and cypress trees. The property lies on a hillside in an environment of pine forest typical of Provence, in more than 4.5 hectares of listed woods bordered by a forest track.
In front of the approximately 180-m² stone residence, the driveway splits into two to also lead to the garage lower down and a parking area for several vehicles. After passing around the north or south facades of the house, there is a patio, after which there is a large, approximately 3,500-m² plot of land which can be built upon. A former irrigation canal through which water still flows, crosses the plot made up of two terraces. Next to one of them, the ruins of a former 19th-century building pay witness to the place’s past.
A low extension has been added to the right of the house, which was originally the main building with an exposed gable wall. The two-storey main section is made up of two self-contained apartments, with one on each level. The first boasts three bedrooms and the second possesses two. This 1960s edifice, in keeping with traditional Var style, boasts exposed stonework made of local shale in ochre/grey shades, while the brownish-red of the barrel tiled roof is underlined by a génoise cornice. The facade, which possesses a pair of French windows with white painted wooden shutters on each level, is also adorned with a balcony with a wrought-iron guard-rail on the top floor. All the low-arched openings have surrounds made of ashlar.

The house

The ground floor
The around 120-m² ground floor apartment can be reached via a porch on the bottom part of the house, to the right-hand side of the balcony. The entrance door leads directly into a vast living room that is bathed in light thanks to three corner windows, two of which are small-paned French Windows leading to a raised terrace boasting uninterrupted views to the north. The room possesses a rustic ambiance, combining white and black chessboard patterned tiles with a high ceiling, exposed roof frame and moulded stone and brick fireplace.
The adjoining kitchen requires redecoration and leads, via French windows, to the vast patio on the western facade.
Lastly, there are three bedrooms, two of which face east and open onto a patio, plus a bathroom and a separate lavatory.
The upstairs
To the left of the facade, a straight stone flight of steps climbs to a south-facing terrace and to the around 60-m² apartment on the top floor of the house. The entrance corridor leads to a bathroom, a separate lavatory and two bedrooms. An Art Nouveau style, cylindrical, Godin brand wood-burning stove with floral motifs stands in the entrance and is merely waiting to be put back into service to heat all the rooms. The lounge at the corner of the building, with a brick, stone and wood fireplace, is followed by a kitchen that opens to the east and a dining room on the western side, which could be transformed into a bedroom or an office.
This apartment has retained its 1970s décor, with terracotta floor tiles, small-paned windows and exposed beams on the ceiling.