A finely built country chateau dominating the central part of a verdant valley with views to a medieval hilltop village. The setting is such that the property, grounds and pool give total privacy to the occupants.
Built in the attractive local pale stone, the chateau presents two contrasting facades composed of symmetrical architectural features. Viewed from the east, two towers join a wisteria-clad facade with central pediment and classical balustrade. From the west a more romantic facade is framed by two wings of outbuildings. This courtyard contains a 19-metre pool with two rows of Florentine Cypress trees. The accommodation, in excess of 500 square metres, has a delightful flow of light and gracious rooms, ideal for house parties and entertaining, balanced by more intimate rooms suitable for family use.
Guest and staff cottages, sharing a separate drive, are self-contained and particularly well appointed with individual central heating. There is further potential for developing a small, unrestored stone cottage.
An avenue of majestic cedars approaches the chateau and extends onto mature parkland with further feature cedars, lines of poplars and centenarian oaks. An all-weather tennis court is ideally set beside an orchard and flower meadow with wild orchids.
The local medieval Bastide village contains a Michelin star restaurant; local shopping is ten minutes away. Agen with its TGV station 16 kms. Toulouse approximately 107 kms.
Tennis Court
Property
Overview
Cottage (unrestored)
The Château
Pigeonnier Guest Cottage
Manager's Residence
Swimming Pool
The Château
View from the countryside
Outbuildings
Two equal runs of old wine store buildings frame the pool courtyard with a series of arched openings.
South wing, playroom, outdoor furniture store and wood store of massive proportions.
North wing, garages and garden store, pool store, separate male and female changing rooms with WCs and showers. Kitchenette. Sports store.
Swimming pool 19 x 5.5m, set within a secure area. In a central tranquil courtyard, between the old wine store buildings accentuated by the Cypress trees, the pool is surrounded by stone paving and an infinity edge flowing beside descending steps and two stone sphinxes.
Unrestored cottage. Built-in stone, with early origins, four main rooms.
Gardens and Grounds
Pebbled pathways surround the buildings with lawns and tended grassland beyond. An orchard area between the chateau and pigeonnier is left as a wild flower meadow in summer. With four wells on the land the site has almost certainly been occupied since medieval times.
