Thervay, Franche-Comté 39290

Between Dijon and Besançon, in a 1-hectare park, a master house, its guest house, and its outbuildings with an industrial past. From entering the property, the wrought-iron gate announces a bourgeois dwelling, probably built in the mid-19th century. A paved driveway leads to the garages at the rear of the estate. At the front, the master house is followed by the outbuildings, which form an intimate square courtyard around a tall chestnut tree. Extending from the house, a long building contains wooden grain silos, bearing witness to the activity once carried out here: the occupants were millers. On the other side of the courtyard, a second dwelling, the so-called guest house, adjoins a barn built on large cellars, themselves attesting to the agricultural nature of the activity. At the back of the courtyard there is a shed where amenities were laid out. Further on, a large garage built in the 1930s. Around the buildings, the park extends over more than 1 hectare, laid out in an English garden style, with 9 ares of orchard.