Here's Your Chance to Live the Good Life in French Countryside

680,000 euros

Chateau Blanc, a Napoleon III-style manor home, doesn't come on the market very often - the last owner stayed 40 years, and for good reason! This is a special and historical property and now is your chance to be the next owner. With it dominant but discreet presence just on the outskirts of a small Normandy village, Chateau Blanc's elegance and charm becomes evident as you drive past its front gate. The pebble driveway takes you in between two rows of trees where past an old carriage house to your right (stacks and stacks of firewood) and a chicken park on your left (fresh eggs for your morning omelet). Then you get your first grand view of the White Madam.

You drive along her side where a wisteria-covered 2-car garage and play space await for you to park. Once our of the car you can take in the full 7 acres of land - from the front and back garden to the large fields in front that's perfect for horses with its stablehouse, to the tennis court in back and the fruit garden just past the shaded duck pond. Lack of green space is never an issue. Centuries-old oaks surround the property, ensuring your privacy. One one side of the garage are another 2 large outbuildings for stowing bicycles or horse-riding equipment. On the other side are 2 more outbuildings - perfect for a workr/tool room and the other can store all garden equipment.

Walking along the pebble path to the front door you get a real taste of Chateau Blanc's elegance and charm. The stone porch leads you to the home'e entrance. Once inside you quickly understand that Chateau Blanc is the real deal. Restored with taste and a nod to both the traditional and contemporary renovations, the old girl shines. New and antique light fixtures guide your way through the entry onto the chevron parquet flooring and to the large living room/salon with its guilded trumeau framing a large mirror atop a marble fireplace sure to keep you cozy on a cool fall evening as you enjoy an aperitif under the 12-foot high ceiling. Large and numerous double-glazed window ensure the warmth and allows the sun to steam through the room. Past the salon you enter the west wing of the house into the library/study. Anchored by an antique Pleyel piano, the room is simply perfect reflecting spot for reading or just enjoying a morning coffee or afternoon tea. Beside the fireplace you'll find a great entry and view to the back terrace and back garden.

Back through the main salon you enter the large and elegant dining room. Here you have plenty of space for a dinner party of 20 underneath a gorgeous chandelier and warmed by another fireplace. A slew of full windows guarantee a great view of the terrace and back garden. Leaving the dining room you pass the bureau, perfect for your work desks with a view of the front garden and pasture. Straight ahead you can't help but notice the hearty staircase that leads to the next two floors. To the right is amazing new kitchen. Featuring another fireplace, the stainless-steel island and counter grabs your attention while designer lights with their crystal globes hover above. The kitchen is a mix of modern and antique with built-in new Neff appliances and endless cabinetry providing plenty of space for storage and enough countertops for preparing for that large dinner party. If you can tear yourself away from the sparkling kitchen, another door from there leads to what was the old kitchen area that has been transformed into an intimate TV/cinema room with views of the back garden area.

Leaving there through a back corridor you pass the spacious and bright laundry and mud room and where to the back entrance to the house is located. Continuing straight on you circle back to the foot of the staircase where you climb one floor to the main living area. Immediately on your right and down a couple of steps is a guest room, fresh and bright with a sink and plenty of closet space. Back along the hallway you pass another large guest room on you left with beautiful pine floors, a large dressing area and sink. Large windows facing south let a flood of light.

Next up is another potential bedroom, toy room or large wardrobe room. To the right of that room is another bedroom whose large windows overlook the terrace, duck pond and garden. It's pine floors lead to its own ensuite shower and sink. At the end of the first floor you find the renovated and spacious master bedroom.It's a very elegant space with massive sunlight pouring in through the double-paned windows. The rooms leads to an ensuite shower and jet tub along with tons of closet space.


Back to stairway and to the 2nd floor, you'll find another beautiful and bright bedroom with sink before reaching two more bedrooms that currently serve as exercise and yoga rooms. Another two unfinished large rooms being used as storage space could be renovated into more bedrooms - perfect for converting the house into a bed and breakfast.


Back outside, a wooden terrace with integrated LED lights await for outside dinners or just an aperitif while watching the sun set over the fruit and vegetable garden. From here you can see the tennis court and large fenced-in duck pond. Walking past, you can see the vast pastures and stables, perfect for horse-lovers.


All of this awaits a new owner with a penchant for history, elegance, country living and of course, France. Chateau Blanc is located 1 1/2 hours from Paris, 20 minutes from Rouen, 25 minutes from the beaches of the English Channel and 40 minutes from Dieppe

To arrange a visit or for more information about our house, contact us at coffee1sc@yahoo.com