luxury farmhouse for sale Uzès, France
By Catherine La Bruyere Immobilier
Property with pool and garden Uzès (30)
This property offers an absolutely extraordinary setting, planted on the top of a hill, facing a breathtaking panorama: on one side, a deep perspective on the gentle surrounding hills and the Duchy of Uzès, and from another, the roofs of the old hamlet in the distance and the Cévennes in the background. Arrival at the property offers a vision of an authentic and imposing Mas of the region, offering power and obvious charm. The terraced gardens, the exterior stone staircases, the cypresses, and the aging coating of the building combine to create a whole of strong emotion and infused the property with a Tuscan softness. On the living room floor, from which you access via a beautiful stone staircase, the entrance hall (with stone fireplace) leads to a first living room of 25 m² (with insert) on its left. On the right of the entrance hall, the dining room (33 m²) with remarkable Provençal ceilings offers access to the kitchen, but also to the garden. The equipped kitchen offers a large central island, a superb cooking range and is decorated with a pantry for a total of 27 m². Back in the living room, a second music room (19 m²) allows access to the large living room of the property: an iconic piece of the property, its extraordinary dimensions (6.5 m under beams and 75 m² of surface area) are enhanced by the spectacular view. Ideally placed, the imposing stone fireplace adorns this living room with charm. Also on this level, a bedroom and bathroom for 23.5 m². On the upper floor, the landing leads to the main suite of the property: a large 27 m² bedroom is associated with a dressing room and bathroom for a total of 51 m². Three other bedrooms (12, 16.5 and 24 m²) are associated with two bathrooms. On the ground floor of the property, a guest studio (51 m²) offers a bedroom (voutain ceilings) associated with a bathroom. The ground floor also consists of a laundry room, linen room, an office, two storage rooms, as well as a double wine cellar. A few steps from the property, accessed by a few gentle steps, the swimming pool area is ideally located in the park. The pool (12 x 5.5 m, very well made trowelled coating) faces the equipped pool house (kitchen with plancha, barbecue, sink, dishwasher, refrigerator, and large work surfaces), the summer dining room covered, as well as a wrought iron arbor. Guest room. A 108 m² barn is now used as a workshop, and includes a few horse boxes. Finally, a caretaker’s (or guest) house, one floor above the ground floor, has an area of 50 m² and offers two bedrooms, bathroom, living room with kitchenette. The 7,436 m² park surrounds the property and offers numerous spaces, planted with endemic trees and shrubs, thus giving the whole area many varied nooks and crannies. This exceptional property is located 8 km from the historic center of Uzès and 4.5 km from all amenities.
Farmhouse Uzès (30)
A 17th century farmhouse in the heart of the Gard Garrigues, a precious testimony to centuries of pastoral life. The various buildings, with their thick limestone walls, are part of a series of edifices that were erected starting in the 17th century. They surround a courtyard, a space which links and protects the different farm activities. Called a 'barn' in the 18th century, this agricultural building consisted of a single structure to the north and an elevation at right angles to the east. Today, only four massive stone pillars remain, distributed around the courtyard. The development of the other two wings still standing today had to wait until the 19th century, when the cultivation of mulberry trees - of which fine specimens remain in the park - developed. At that time, silkworm breeding was at its peak, until a devastating epidemic, pepper disease, ravaged most of the farms in the Gard. The architectural style of the eastern wing presents all the typical characteristics of a silkworm farm: a long, narrow and tall building, two storeys high, with small regular openings and a gable roof, with a chimney for the ventilation and heating necessary for the growth of the 'Magnans” (greedy silkworms). The second wing on the western side was built for the staff who were required to live on the premises. The windows, which are larger in size, receive generous sunlight from the west. From the windows facing the sunset, the view encompasses the surrounding garrigue shrublands as well as the flock of sheep from the neighbouring village that regularly graze nearby. To the north, the building has remained in its original state with, on the lower level, solid cross vaults which sheltered the animals under the hayloft above. The courtyard facades are entirely lime-rendered and those visible from the outside - with the exception of the east wing - show bonded rubble limestone. The gable roofs are clad with monk-and-nun tiles.
By Patrice Besse
1 listing near Uzès
Farmhouse Ales (30)
A Tuscan-style farmhouse with 51 hectares of grounds on a hill between the Cévennes mountains and the scrubland of France's Gard department. At the end of a tarmac road, you see the southern side on the farmhouse on a hill, which was probably once a Roman oppidum. One of its towers rises at the corner of the edifice; the other stands symmetrically to it, behind a cluster of trees. The site used to be an agricultural building. Its north wing was the first section to be built. Restoration works that were completed in 1714 transformed it, giving it its Florentine style of today. Later, it was a refuge for Camisards – Huguenot rebels in the Cévennes region; a prison for Italian soldiers; and a place of resistance and conflict – bullet holes and wall inscriptions attest to this. Today, it looks out over the surrounding countryside and the property’s grounds: an unbroken expanse of 51 hectares made up of olive groves, meadows and scrubland. The building complex encloses a courtyard. A passage for horses cuts through its south wing, forming a carriage entrance. The outer walls are rendered with old lime coating beneath which a bond of rounded limestone rocks can be seen. The property’s southern face is flanked with two corner towers. Windows in line with each other punctuate its facade, either side of its basket-handle archway that looks out over a swimming pool and pool house. On the first floor, four tall, narrow windows are spaced out more evenly and symmetrically, with bull’s eye windows beneath the eaves. The towers’ front and side walls are punctuated with a window on each floor. These windows are identically sized. The carriage-entrance gate is painted red, as are the window shutters, on the edifice’s south side and its other faces too. The north and west wings are now hidden behind two metal barns – tokens of the property’s recent agricultural activity. The eastern face looks out across an endless view that stretches all the way to the Alps. The different building sections are crowned with hipped or gable roofs adorned with barrel tiles and underlined with double-row génoise cornices. They house two apartments, an oratory and annexes formerly used for agriculture, silkworm farming and business.
By Patrice Besse
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