An elegant detached 4 bedroom country home with Art Nouveau features, mature gardens, pond, vegetable garden, garaging, function room and pasture of about 2.938 ha (7.26 acres) and 2 thriving gites which have been maintained and improved over the last few years to provide a family home with income.

Located about 20 minutes from the Cathedral town of Bayeux in a small hamlet on the edge of the Marais National Park which is noted for its wildlife and only about an hour from the ferry ports of Cherbourg and Caen with the D-Day beaches being within easy reach, this super family house was originally a Priory and was built on the site of a former monastery.

The Priory is an attractive and unusual building, with its imposing tower, topped by decorative metalwork, with doors & windows in the Art Nouveau style, continued in the wood panelling and doors of the interior. The exterior walls are of the local honey coloured stone, with slate roofs, as are also the substantial outbuildings.

The main accommodation includes:

Entrance Hall (14’2” x 7’2” / 4m44 x 2.20) with glazed double doors from front terrace, with traditional tiled floor and radiator. Imposing staircase which leads to landing on 1st floor, and continues up to the 2nd floor.

Cloakroom (7’3” x 3’6” / 2m20 x 1m15) with tiled floor, white suite, storage cupboard under vanity unit. Radiator.

Sitting Room (17’2” x 16’7” / 5m15 x 4m90) with original parquet floor, decorative plaster ceiling, radiator, white marble fireplace, on either side of which are imposing floor-to-ceiling glazed doors leading to

Music Room/Library (22’ x 24’6” into bay window/ 6m90 x 7m60) also with parquet floor & decorative plaster ceiling, featuring large bay window to front of property, and French doors leading to gardens at rear. Black marble fireplace and floor-to-ceiling oak bookcase & display cabinet along one wall. 3 radiators.

Dining Room (22’2” x 17’4”/ 6m80 x 5m30) with traditional tiled floor, and glazed doors to terraces, front & rear. Imposing Normandy fireplace and decorative plaster ceiling. Wood panelled dado. 2 radiators.

Kitchen/Breakfast Room (13’ x 17’4” / 4m x 5m30) with traditional tiled floor, decorative plaster ceiling, quality fitted oak kitchen units with tiled work surfaces in traditional local tiles. Double oven Godin electric/gas cooker. Radiator.

Scullery (18’3” x 7’2” / 5m30 x 2m20) with stainless steel sink unit & dishwasher, with further storage units, houses 50 kw.oil-fired boiler for central heating and hot water (23 radiators throughout the house). Original terracotta floor tiles.

Bathroom (12’x5’/ 2m60 x 1m50) with white suite with panelled bath, traditional black & white tiled walls and floor. Brass fittings including fully adjustable shower, taps and towel rails. Radiator.

Laundry Room (7’6” x 6’10”/ 2m30 x 2m10) with terracotta floor tiles, plumbing for washing machine/vent for tumble drier. Storage units.

Back Kitchen (17’8” x 10’ /5m30 x 3m) originally the old arriere-cuisine, with terracotta floor tiles, wood-cladded walls & ceiling. Staircase leading to large attic with storage space. Traditional French ceramic sink. Radiator.

Stairs lead up to

1st floor:

Long landing corridor with 2 windows overlooking rear gardens.2 radiators.

Double bedroom (13’x 13’3” / 3m96 x 4m) with dado, and parquet floor. Radiator.
Adjacent shower room & toilet (white suite). Radiator.Fitted carpet.

Linking door from bedroom leading to

Single Bedroom (13’10” x 8’2” /4m17 x 2m45) with quality fitted carpet, wall light, and radiator.

Double Bedroom (13’7” x 14’ / 4m10 x 4m30) with French Doors to charming Balcony in Art Nouveau style, recently renovated. Parquet floor, dado, wall lights. Marble fireplace. Radiator. En suite shower room & toilet, with electric heater. Fitted carpet.

Double Bedroom (20’ x 18’10” / 6m08 x 5m80) with two radiators, and en suite bathroom(10’9”x 6’ / 3m26 x 1m87). Roll top bath with brass claw feet. Storage cupboard with decorative hand-painted doors. White suite with brass fittings throughout and traditional patterned tiles. Fitted carpet.

Upstairs Sitting Room (16’4” x 16’10” / 5m15 x 5m10) with marble fireplace, T.V. point, fitted carpet. Two radiators. Telephone point.

Staircase continues to Top Landing.

Large Attic Room (23’9” x 12’ / 7m46 x 3m60) converted to study, featuring original beams, fitted storage cupboards.Velux windows. Two radiators. Telephone point. Further storage room at far end.

2nd Attic Room offering further storage space.

The whole house has modern electrical wiring throughout, and the present owners have extended this to ensure that all rooms are well equipped with power points. The house is equipped with a modern alarm system & outside lighting.

THE GITES

The Priory has two letting gite cottages, presently let through an English agency, and provides a useful income.

Gite 1. ‘Maison du Guardien’ the former gatekeeper’s cottage, now converted to a charming and comfortable 2 person unit, consisting of kitchen/dining room with all fittings, downstairs shower room & toilet, with double bedroom upstairs. Electric heaters/water heater. Adjoining Laundry Room with sink, washing machine & tumble drier. Quality tiled floors throughout ground floor.

Gite 2. ‘La Boulangerie’ formerly the bakery & brew house to the main house, and still featuring part of the bread oven. Consists of kitchen, dining room/sitting room, small sun room overlooking garden, stairs to bedroom (twin-bedded) with en suite bathroom & toilet.(White suite).
Tastefully decorated in a cottage style with plain walls and exposed beams. Quality tiles throughout. Electric heaters/water heater.

The Priory, cottages, and outbuildings are served by a circular gravel front drive, leading from an imposing stone entrance, with original white wrought iron gates and railings. Access also by rear gravel drive. Mains water & electricity. Private drainage.

OUTSIDE

The outbuildings constructed in local stone with slate roofs, consisting of:

Function/Leisure Room (33’8” x 17’2” / 10m33 x 5m20)with tiled floor, insulated walls with wall lights and wood strip panelled ceiling, with exposed beams. Two electric heaters. Toilet. Trap doors to large loft space above. This large room lends itself to a multitude of uses, with glazed double doors to the front garden, and inside door leading to room for fuel storage tank, 2,500 lit.

Double Garage linked by door to Function Room, having large sliding doors onto drive, and original brick floor, the former coach house.

Single Garage presently used to house ride-on mowers, and garden items, etc.,

Workshop which adjoins the other outbuildings under one roof.

Large gardens to front and back, laid down to lawns, shrubs, and flowerbeds, with many specimen trees (Copper Beech, Magnolias, etc.,) and stone dovecote overlooking large pond. Sizeable vegetable garden with orchard beyond, the whole surrounded by own fields of around 3 hectares.

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