Offer 483

Rare listed 13^th-18^th centuries priory with exceptional gardens in the Pays d'Auge

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A set of 2 adjacent buildings, one with stone walls, the other with half-timbered walls, is located in the northern side of the courtyard. They correspond to an ancient storehouse and cider-press house built during the 14^th and 15^th centuries. This set offers a total living space of 370 sq. mt. (3 980 sq. ft.). The ground floor features a very large dining room with a remarkable framework. This room is organized around the cider-press and can accommodate 35 guests. The ground floor also includes an equipped kitchen and 2 bedrooms with a shower room. The 1^st floor features a huge reception room (140 sq. mt., 1 500 sq. ft.) with a mezzanine, currently used as a museum and a reception space.

The storehouse and cider-press house seen from the landscaped courtyard.

The 18^th century dairy is converted into a guests' house. It features 2 levels with a living room, a kitchen and a shower room on the ground floor and 2 bedrooms upstairs.

The 18^th century building located in the southern side of the courtyard corresponds to an ancient bakery and dairy converted into a guests' house. It features 2 levels with a large living room with fireplace, a kitchen, 2 bedrooms, one of which with a small sitting room, a bathroom and a shower room. An independent entrance gives access to a laundry, a linen room and a storeroom for fruits upstairs.

A bedroom in the storehouse.	The kitchen in the main dwelling.

The big edifice located in the southern side of the courtyard is one of the rare still existing 13^th century tithe-barns and is hence M.H.-listed. Its interior space (400 sq. mt., 4 300 sq. ft.) can accommodate 400 people under a remarkable framework. Restoration works will be completed in spring 2002 to resume the reception activity.

The cider-press room.

The front side of the tithe-barn.

The 13^th century chapel is located near the main dwelling, in the eastern side of the courtyard. It is I.S.M.H.-listed and is used as a music and meeting room. It also features an underground crypt used as a wine cellar.

The farm of the priory is located behind the tithe-barn and has its own garden. It is a lovely two-storey stone building featuring a conference room, a souvenir/book shop and a kitchen on the ground floor. The 1^st floor is currently used as offices, but the conversion into further bedrooms is planed.

The 13th century chapel (I.S.M.H.)	The farm with its own garden.

The rose garden.

Several exceptional gardens have been designed by the current owner around this beautiful set of period edifices. They are open to the public and attract each year a high number of visitors who pay a fee to see the collections of medicinal and aromatic plants, rare vegetables, ancient and botanical roses, perennial and aquatic plants, etc. From the courtyard, a long path edged by lime trees divides and links the gardens that are surrounded by hornbeam hedges: the rose garden, the iris garden, the kitchen garden, the "simple" garden, the orchard, the wild garden, the green theatre, the greenhouse... A further garden is located under the main dwelling, on the other side of the estate. It is dedicated to magnolias and hazel trees, and leads to a pond with lotus and white water lilies. Several other ponds, fed by a spring, embellish the gardens.

The white water lily pond.

The letting of houses, conference rooms, dining rooms and individual bedrooms, plus the visit of the estate, has become a significant profitable business. The property is listed in many big media, it is an affiliated member of several prestigious associations and welcomes many foreigners. The activity currently involves 2 houses, 3 individual bedrooms and 3 reception rooms, and this capacity can easily be doubled.

An exceptional property, consistent and refined, in the middle of the peaceful countryside of the Pays d'Auge...

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