Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente 16300

An 18th-century mill with full ownership rights and outbuildings, on 5 hectares of land, in the brightness of the Charente area as described by writer Jacques Chardonne. The buildings are set in a U-shape around a courtyard open to the south. The mill race to the west flows past a building next to a covered area and crosses through the courtyard before passing below the western end of the two-storey main building to the north of the courtyard. To the east, the same building is linked via a carriage gate and a dressed stone pedestrian gate to other outbuildings set perpendicularly. The buildings, made of rubble stone with window and door frames built in locally sourced ashlar, are topped with gently sloped terracotta tiled roofs. The western buildings are located on an island formed by the mill race and the river a little further away.