Maison à vendre, 3357m², Dieppe

Description

Set back from a road at the centre of a village, the house sits within a garden of some 3,350 m². Built in 1984 on the site of a former agricultural building, the roughly 250 m² dwelling is built in the Norman architectural tradition, with its thatched roof and half-timbering. Structure, walls and roof timbers are all in solid elm, prized for its strength and its resistance to moisture. The house The ground floor Its living room of over 70 m², laid with terracotta tiles, is crowned by a broad mezzanine with exposed beams. A brick and stone fireplace stands against one wall. The room connects to a fitted kitchen of some 20 m². Three bedrooms with parquet flooring, ranging from 15 to 20 m², two lavatories, two bathrooms — one of them nearly 20 m² — and a utility room flank the main room. The upstairs The mezzanine opens onto the living room below. The rest of this level comprises two parquet-floored bedrooms of some 20 m², an intermediate room and an attic space suitable for conversion.The exteriorTo the rear of the house, set back from it, stand a garage and two adjoining outbuildings, one of them a wine cellar. A masonry well, crowned with its own thatched roof, descends nearly 30 m. Mature apple, pear and cherry trees form an orchard-meadow to the rear, while flower beds edged by a yew hedge lie in front of the house. An earth bank draped with St John's wort encloses the whole.