A Late 19th Century Chateau With 1.5 Hectares Of Grounds, Tucked Away In France’s Beautiful

A late-19th-century chateau with 1.5 hectares of grounds, tucked away in France’s beautiful Lauragais province, south-east of Toulouse. You reach the property via the Pont de Thuriès bridge, which was built in 1845 under the supervision of the engineer Jean Maguès to create a route across the Rigole de la Plaine water channel. Next, a lane leads to an electric gate, from where you make your way to a parking area in front of the residence’s north-east elevation. On one side, a rendered wall, edged with oleanders, separates the estate from the neighbouring property. The residence stands in the north-east section of the plot. It faces south-west, leading out into tree-dotted grounds that cover around 1.5 hectares. The architecture you see here today dates back to building work that was carried out in around 1895. It has a neoclassical and Directoire style. The edifice is rectangular in shape with a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space. It is crowned with a hipped roof of terracotta tiles. Its facade faces the grounds and displays a symmetrical design of seven bays. The central bay is in an avant-corps that protrudes slightly and rises up to a grand pediment, below which there is a first-floor balcony edged with a wrought-iron guardrail, supported with moulded corbels. The tall windows are set in stone surrounds and fitted with shutters of painted wood. Quoins and a continuous cornice frame the neat arrangements of the elevations. Inside, several reception rooms are positioned around a central lobby. Some of these reception rooms connect to each other. The bedrooms are spread over all three floors. A main staircase and a flight of backstairs lead to the upper ones. On the south-west side, the grounds stretch out from the foot of the edifice, forming an expanse of lawns dotted with majestic trees. A heated swimming pool, built in 2023, runs parallel to the facade and sits in a stone terrace with a shelter on one side. The residence offers seven bedrooms, including six suites, as well as a lounge, a dining room, a reading room, a billiard room, a kitchen with a scullery, a spa, a storeroom, a workshop and two utility rooms. There is also a well and a solar panel installation.
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