Nemours, Île-de-France 77140

A house at the water's edge, with outbuildings, in the historical centre of Nemours, 15 kilometres from Fontainebleau. This property is located on the centre of the old district of Nemours, where there is a railway station with trains to Paris, on the banks of an artificial branch of the River Loing, created in the Middle Ages when the town's fortifications were built under royal decree. The house can be reached via a street of sandstone cobbles, which is a vestige of medieval times. It is set around an inner courtyard and a walled garden that leads to the river. The edifice was built with rubble stone and ashlar. It boasts a staircase tower that leads to a first-floor apartment that was fitted out in the 1980s its restoration made it possible to re-establish the property's architectural unity. A discrete door opens onto a wooden staircase leading to the spacious attic with its exposed oakwood roof frame. As a whole, it is unique and authentic, thanks to the exposed stonework, period terracotta tiles, wooden partitions and flat tiles visible from the interior. Three enclosed garages, with wooden doors and separated by stone foundations, occupy the ground floor. Indeed, two of them still boast period sandstone cobbles. A workshop, boiler room and a series of utility rooms can also be found in this first part of the buildings.The second part of the property is more private and leads to a walled garden that overlooks the branch of the River Loing. A final building at the rear of the property, adjacent to the 19th-century brick washhouse boasts a breathtaking view over gardens backing onto the river. It has two storeys: a garden level, with brick jack arches, terracotta tiles and stone walls, while on the upper floor, there is a cement floor standing beneath an exposed wooden roof frame covered by local tiles and corrugated iron. The interior partitions of the outbuildings, which were recently and rather haphazardly installed, could be removed to give pride of place to the more noble materials. The property could be united into a single whole or divided into three separate homes. A surveyor has already drawn up a descriptive division statement, accompanied by a detailed survey and the corresponding plans. The municipality has plans in place to restore an immediately adjoining outbuilding belonging to the 16th-century hospital, which today is unoccupied.