Fully enclosed, 800m2 house, indoor swimming pool, caretaker’s lodge, guest houses, 2 sheds.
Location
Less than 170 km from Paris (20 minutes from the motorway exit), near the most beautiful villages of the “Sologne de la brique” which takes its name from their charming reddish facades. In the heart of a wild region carpeted with heather and moors, planted with deciduous and coniferous trees where big game roams in highly supervised freedom…
Description
The estate, with a total area of 229 ha, includes:
- approximately 160 ha of woodland
- approximately 60 ha of agricultural plains for hunting
- 7 ponds totaling an area of approximately 5.5 ha
- Entirely enclosed by 1.20 m wire mesh
- A main entrance and a secondary service entrance
- A wooded park of approximately 5 hectares
- An orchard planted with several hundred fruit trees, including quince and apple trees.
The environment is of remarkable quality, both by the biotope and by the tranquility of the estate nestled in the heart of a green and game-rich Sologne.
The property is in one piece, without any right of way and free of any occupation. An underground irrigation system is installed throughout the property.
The mansion
Built in the center of the property on two levels and cellars, its surface area is 800 m².
L-shaped farmhouse in the purest style of Sologne architecture. Remarkable construction work carried out in the early 1980s. The whole has been perfectly maintained since then.
Architectural features:
- Exterior cladding with half-timbered walls, polychrome brickwork
- Roof covered with traditional tiles (redone in 2014)
- Brick chimney stacks
- Traditional tile roofing pierced with gable dormers with brick pediment.
Remarkable elements:
- Monumental 16th century stone fireplace.
- Remarkable work of country carpentry: ceilings decorated with oak beams and exposed joists in the large living room.
- Floors covered with several types of polychrome terracotta tiles.
- House pierced with numerous bays generating beautiful interior light.
- Double exposure on interior courtyard and wooded park.
- Vast reception rooms: monumental living room, hunting room, second hunting room, dining room, very beautiful height under ridge.
- Vast “games room” and reception area upstairs.
- Real brick bread oven.
Other points:
- The 5 bedrooms are equipped with their own bathroom.
- Tiled terrace on the entire south facade of the house.
- Residence equipped with an alarm system and burglar-proof windows.
Ground floor Surface area of 580 m² Ridge
height of the hunting rooms: 6.60 m and 6.15 m.
Ceiling height: 2.95 m
First floor Surface area of 310 m²
Ridge height: 5.30 m Ceiling height: 3 m
The cellars
Surface area of 105 m²
Access is via the office. Reinforced door with 5-point lock.
Ceiling height: 2 m Perfect condition. Tiled floors.
The wellness area and its swimming pool.
This old barn, originally built near Bourges in the purest Berry architectural style, was dismantled and re-established on the property in 1996 by a carpenter.
Architectural features:
- Exterior cladding with half-timbering, polychrome brickwork.
- Roof covered with traditional tiles.
- Exposed framework.
- Space pierced by large bay windows.
- Tiled terrace on all the south and west facades.
- Authenticity of the materials.
Technical characteristics:
Salt pool (without chlorine), 3 meters deep, equipped with an electric roller shutter and 2 counter-current swimming systems. Roof windows automated by hydrothermal energy.
- House supplied with water by borehole at 80m2 depth.
- Sanitation system brought up to standards in 2010
Ground floor Surface area of 170 m² on the ground.
Ridge height: 6.35 m
First floor Surface area of 40 m².
Ceiling height: 2.40 m
The guest house and its annex
Located to the west of the property, with a surface area of approximately 220 m². Perfectly independent building allowing to receive its guests in addition to the accommodation capacities offered by the main house.
Architectural features:
- Exterior cladding with half-timbered walls, polychrome brickwork.
- Roof covered with traditional tiles (re-done in 2014).
- Attic partly converted, partly convertible.
Technical features:
- Roof covered with traditional tiles, redone in 2015. New condition.
- Water supplied by drilling.
- Sanitation system brought up to standard/
- 6 septic tanks for the main house and the pool house.
- Wood and gas heating system The old outbuilding, located opposite the
guest house, with a floor area of approximately 135 m², can be converted over two levels.
Ground floor
With a floor area of 155 m²
First floor
With a surface area of 65 m²
The caretaker’s house
With a surface area of approximately 60 m², it is located at the entrance to the property.
Architectural and technical characteristics:
- Roof covered with traditional tiles in good condition.
- Water supplied by drilling.
- Sanitation system brought up to standards.
- Septic tank.
- Gas heating system.
The garages and annexes:
With a surface area of 90 m² on the ground Height under ridge: 5.80 m
Floor covered with a concrete screed.
Built in the same architectural style as the main house, the building houses 3 parking spaces.
Annexes with a surface area of 25 m² with six cold rooms. Floor covered with a concrete screed.
The agricultural outbuildings:
- A first shed with a surface area of approximately 700 m² (50 x 14 m). Located in the undergrowth, near the main house, in the center of the property.
- A second shed located near the entrance to the property, with a floor area of approximately 425 m² (34 x 12.5 m).
- A third shed located near the guest house, with a floor area of approximately 60 m². Exterior cladding covered in wood.
- Two small technical rooms, each housing a borehole, one at the entrance to the property, the other near the main house, both in the architectural style of Sologne
- A third technical room, housing a generator
- A Dutch-style horticultural greenhouse, with a floor area of approximately 125 m². Ridge height: 5.90 m. It is designed to protect the orange trees, lemon trees and other orchids on the property during the winter. Independent gas heating.
Characteristics of the hunting territory
The estate includes:
- Approximately 160 ha of woodland.
- Approximately 60 ha of agricultural plains for hunting.
- 7 ponds totaling an area of approximately 5.5 ha.
- 5 pools.
It is also equipped with 3 free-roaming aviaries, 2 English-style aviaries, and around thirty feeders.
Hunting plan:
- Big game: 3 deer, 3 roe deer, strong presence of wild boar on the territory.
- Small game: teal, pheasants (300), ducks (100), partridges (50), thrushes
3 to 4 hunts are organized each year Hunting management of the territory: - 1.20 m fence installed in the 1980s.
- 3 semi-stony private roads.
- Good distribution of agricultural plains and other cover, ponds, bodies of water, coppices, forest massifs and forest paths.
The crops are for hunting purposes only: wheat, corn, millet, sorghum.
All the plains are connected to the two boreholes located on the property.
Characteristics of the forest estate:
- Simple Forest Management Plan renewed in 2010 for 10 years
- Forest mainly made up of hardwoods (varieties of oak including American red oaks), with several plots of conifers.
Detailed areas
The mansion Ground floor
Entrance 35.0 m²
Booth 12.0 m²
Hunting room 85.0 m²
Large living room 175.0 m²
Hunting room 72.0 m²
Dining room 35.0 m²
Toilets 8.0 m²
Kitchen 45.0 m²
Office 4.0 m² Hallway 4.5 m² Dressing room 8.0 m²
Dressing room 12.0 m² Master bedroom 40.0 m² Bathroom with bath and shower. 20.0 m² Toilets 2.0 m² Boiler room 20.0 m² First floor Games room Living room Hallway 130.0 m² 12.0 m² 8.0 m² Bedroom 2 27.0 m² Bathroom with toilet 11.0 m² Dressing room 7.0 m² Bedroom 3 12.0 m² Bathroom with toilet 7.0 m² Bedroom 4 18.0 m² Bathroom with toilet 12.0 m² Bedroom 5 13.0 m² Shower room with toilet 6.0 m² Linen room 20.0 m² Convertible attic 20.0 m² Cellars Wine cellar 40.0 m² Wine cellar 27.0 m² Cellar 25.0 m² Cellar 13.0 m² The wellness area and its swimming pool Ground floor Swimming pool 75.0 m² Changing room 4.0 m² Shower room 3.0 m² Toilet 2.0 m² Technical room 14.0 m² First floor Bedroom 1 13.0 m² Bathroom with toilet 6.0 m² The guest house and its annex Ground floor at the entrance to the property Living room 43.0 m² Kitchen 14.0 m² Hallway 5.0 m² Bedroom 1 24.0 m² Bathroom with bath and shower 8.0 m² Bedroom 2 17.0 m² Toilet 1.5 m² Upper room 40.0 m² First floor Bedroom 3 35.0 m² Mezzanine room 21.0 m² Dressing room 1.9 m² Shower room 4.0 m² Toilet 1.5 m² The caretaker’s house Living room 20 m² Kitchen 6 m² Toilet 1.2 m² Shower room 3.8 m² Bedroom 1 15 m² Bedroom 2 12 m² Miscellaneous information Heating