10 bedroom house for sale

Elegant 10 bedroom 19th Century chateau, which is approached through impressive entrance gates and a tree-lined avenue, is ideally situated just 2km from an historic Gallo Roman village with a popular bar/restaurant, this superb chateau promises the charm & romance of rural French living yet is also just 25km from Poitiers with its international airport and just 1h25m from TGV service to Paris. With impressive light-filled reception rooms, 9.6 hectares (23 acres) of glorious parkland with terraces, an in-ground swimming pool and extensive woodland running down to 350m of riverbank. Ground floor: grand and stunning 86m2 living room with a marble fireplace and decorated ceilings, a formal dining room, music room, study/library, large kitchen, laundry room, boiler room, former kitchen and a chapel with exquisite stained glass windows. First floor: 8 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 3 shower rooms. Second floor: a suite of attic rooms offers potential for further development. The lovely parkland/grounds surround the chateau and there are a substantial range of outbuildings including: a guardians cottage, 2 stables, a garage, various workshops, impressive stone barns, a piggery, an orangery, greenhouses, chicken houses and a bread oven. The renovated guardians cottage is on 2 levels comprising on the ground floor: a kitchen, living room, dining room and a WC, whilst on the first floor are 2 double bedrooms, and a family bathroom with a WC, bath and a shower.