The Walled Chateau
€920,000
A 17th-century château approached by a 400-metre avenue, with a private chapel, remarkable period interiors and 6.3 hectares of largely walled parkland.
There is something wonderfully unexpected about this château.
Hidden at the end of a 400-metre avenue of Lombardy poplars, the house sits within more than six hectares of largely walled parkland. Its architecture is unusually restrained for a château of this scale: symmetrical, beautifully proportioned and almost Italian in its formality, with a central pavilion, pedimented entrance and carefully measured rhythm of windows.
Inside, the mood changes again. A monumental carved staircase rises beside stained glass, while the reception rooms retain boiserie, period fireplaces, encaustic tiles and both herringbone and Hungarian-point parquet. Rather than having been polished into something anonymous, much of the character of the house remains visible.
And then there is the chapel.
Blessed in 1641, it sits alongside the château as part of an estate whose history reaches back through the seventeenth century. An old tower, garage and tennis court also sit within the grounds.
For me, though, it is the approach that stays with you: the gates, the long avenue and the château slowly appearing at its end.
At €920,000, this feels like an extraordinary amount of architecture for under €1m.
