Vendôme, Centre-Val de Loire 41100

A grand 18th-century house with an outbuilding and garden, nestled 25 minutes from the town of Vendôme, in France's Centre Val de Loire region. The house has a courtyard and a garden on an enclosed plot that covers around 5,000m². From a village road on one side of the property, a metal gate leads onto a path that takes you to the main court and the outbuilding, which stands in the grassy, tree-dotted garden. In front of the house, there is a second court with vegetation. It faces one of the village's squares. The main court faces north and south and the pavilion, at a right angle to the house's main section, looks westwards. The stone elevations are coated with rendering. All the home's windows are set in surrounds of red brickwork. The hipped roofs are covered with slate tiles, except for one of the outbuilding's roof slopes, which is covered with flat tiles. The imposing dwelling has kept the attributes that make it typical of classic upper-middle-class houses of its time. Its reception rooms are adorned with mouldings, fireplaces and chevron parquet.