Bourgueil, Centre-Val de Loire 37140

A 19th-century manor house and garden, in the former Anjou province, nears Tours, 10 minutes from Bourgueil. The house was built in the 19th century and can be seen at the corner of two streets in the village centre. The three-storey building made of tuffeau stone boasts a sober, rusticated masonry, stone ground floor with pink-ochre rendering on the first floor. On this level, pilasters, ironwork and entablatures amplify the opulence of the decorative features. The hipped, slate roof is punctuated with dormer windows flanked by bullseye windows. The remarkable symmetry of the buildings is only disrupted by the west-facing roof terrace on the first floor. To the rear of the house, there is a 300-m southwest facing garden that can be reached from the street via an ironwork gate, a pedestrian gate or through the garage. The property stretches over a plot of almost 500 m.