Tremblay-les-Villages, Centre-Val de Loire 28170

A charming renovated presbytery, its outbuildings, enclosed garden and views of the surrounding fields, one hour and 15 minutes from Paris's Porte d'Auteuil, in the natural region of Drouais. In a village of 500 inhabitants and right next to a church for which it was the presbytery, the property is located at the end of a small street that runs alongside the cemetery. Abutting the church's garden, the property's grounds are blanketed in lawn, while its current occupants have let ivy grow unabashedly along the property's enclosure wall. Flanked by two brick pillars as well as fragrant wisteria and other vines planted at the base of a hawthorn tree, the gate opens onto the garden with a large horse chestnut tree being the first thing visitors encounter. With the dwelling in the middle of the garden, the latter extends all the way to the distant fields in the north, which are, in turn, bordered by trees on the horizon.The stone and terracotta presbytery dates from the mid-19th century and was built on top of a 17th century cellar, with bricks typical of its construction era used for the window frames. The ground floor is topped by an attic converted by the current owner. Three windows and two doors punctuate the main faade. At the edge of the roof gutters, the building's mouldings feature a cornice with brick modillions, above a simple frieze of horizontally arranged bricks. These eminent decorative elements point to the eccliesiastic purpos of the premises' origins.