Between Tours And Angers, In A 320 Hectare Estate With Park, Woods And Farmland, A 19th Century

Between Tours and Angers, in a 320 hectare estate with park, woods and farmland, a 19th-century château and its outbuildings

. A country road leads to an entrance gate, which opens onto a drive crossing the park to the château. An unpaved road carries on to the outbuildings, arranged around a courtyard. The property dates from the first half of the 19th century. Built of tuffeau on a hard-stone base, the main house stands four storeys tall, each of roughly 250 m² and the uppermost set under the eaves. Rectangular in plan, it is flanked at each corner by an octagonal pepper-pot tower. Renaissance-style dormers pierce the four-sided slate roof front and rear. Rustication dresses the principal elevations and the towers; modillions carry the cornices. Two central doors, framed by pilasters and topped on either side with portrait medallions, open at the front onto a straight flight of steps and at the rear onto a double-revolution staircase edged with a tuffeau railing. A balcony, borne by a carved lion’s head, extends the front elevation. Reception rooms retaining their original decor take up the ground floor; eleven bedrooms and a study-library fill the two upper floors. Running north to south, the château stands at the centre of its park, close to the outbuilding courtyard set near the western gable. The estate comprises a landscape park of nearly 20 hectares, some 90 hectares of farmland and a forest block of around 215 hectares. The buildings as a whole require refurbishment.
Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: https://www.georisques.gouv.fr/