La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, Pays de la Loire 72340

An 18th-century dwelling with a large garden and outbuildings, nestled in a calm spot in a charming village in France's Loir Valley. The property is located in the centre of the village, but it is set back enough to enjoy absolute calm. The whole plot is enclosed with old walls and hedges. It is not at all overlooked. The home does not face the street. Rather, it faces an inner court and a tree-dotted garden, which face south-east. You step straight into the house through the entrance door, although you can also enter it from a large covered entrance area in the middle of a barn that leads straight to the court, the garden, the workshop and the different outbuildings. The house is rectangular. It is made of tuffeau stone and is crowned with a gabled slate roof. Its quoins, cornices and door and window surrounds are made of exposed tuffeau ashlar. The edifice is framed between outbuildings. A vaulted cellar extends beneath part of it. You reach this cellar from outside. The house offers a 192m floor area. It has kept many historical decorative features, including French-style beamed ceilings, terracotta-tiled floors, cornices and tuffeau stone fireplaces.