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Exclusive - SUMPTUOUS AND VERY ELEGANT 18TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE ON AN ISLAND AND SURROUNDED BY A WATER MOAT - Exceptional charm - Decorative program close to the Palace of Versailles after Robert de Cotte and Jules Hardouin-Mansart - Exceptional documentary aspect to explore - Mill - 9 hectares - To restore - IMH - Vitry-le-François, Champagne. An offer has just been accepted by the owner. This property is therefore no longer available. We still suggest that you send us your contact details to be informed of any changes and to receive our news. After crossing the Saulx River and entering the island, the large avenue of century-old plane trees leads through views of extraordinary charm and romanticism to a pair of majestic pillars topped with sphinxes marking the entrance to the courtyard facing a large avenue leading to a monumental column in the distance. This square-plan courtyard is arranged by two corner pavilions facing the castle, formed by a central body on the ground floor under Mansard-style broken attics between two corner pavilions. Symmetrical in appearance, it is marked in its center by a monumental portico of classical architecture with four pilasters under a large pediment, decorated with exceptionally high-quality sculpture. The semicircular bays are topped with different mascarons directly inspired by the Palace of Versailles. The central mascaron depicting Hercules is based on the mascaron of the fireplace in the Salon d'Hercule by Robert de Cotte, topped with a weapon trophy consisting of a club and a quiver (between 1712 and 1736). The other mascarons of Flora, Ceres, Bacchus, Poseidon, are all inspired by the War Room undertaken by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in 1678 and completed by Charles Lebrun in 1686. The castle, apparently completed in 1741, is a direct resumption of this decorative program, which is quite exceptional and deserves a more complete study. Very damaged during the First World War, the property was completely restored, apparently by André Champetier de Ribes around 1925 (oral source, to be verified). On the ground floor, under 4.5m ceiling, hall, grand staircase with baluster, beautiful library in Directoire style woodwork, marble fireplace. A living room, marble fireplace, 18th century trumeau. A kitchen. Large continuous corridor. A large kitchen, terracotta floor, vegetable garden, stone fireplace, coat of arms fireback. Very beautiful dining room, wood-panelled cupboards, terracotta tiles, 18th century earthenware stove, marble window frames, large 17th-18th century painted canvases embedded in the woodwork. Large double doors, Large living room of 50m2 under 5.3m ceiling, sumptuous Rocaille decor of trellises, crossing, six French windows opening onto the courtyard and a large wrought iron balcony overlooking the moat and a beautiful perspective on the other side of the park marked by two sphinxes, fireplace and very large carved limestone trumeau, four double interior doors. Living room, marble fireplace, wooden trumeau, low paneling, 19th century stenciled wallpaper, Versailles parquet flooring. 5 bedrooms, most with marble fireplace, one with alcove. A kitchen. Upstairs in a corner of the main building, three bedrooms. A very large attic. Upstairs in the other corner of the main building, two bedrooms, bathroom, a workshop with a superb stone Regency fireplace and its trumeau. A huge attic in the central building. In the independent West pavilion, with its cracked and fragile structure, kitchen, stone fireplace, living room dining room with very beautiful decoration, earthenware stove, 19th century wallpapers, very large 18th century marble fireplace, neoclassical library, plaster vases, a bedroom with a stone fireplace, bathroom, upstairs 4 bedrooms. In the South pavilion, a large chapel, a sacristy, a room in the corner tower. Recent framework and roof in good condition. Very beautiful courtyard of honor, trees trimmed in pollards, box and yew topiary, large pillars, stone lions, flame ironwork, sphinxes, double flight of stairs leading to the moat. Large stone bridge. Very large hundred-year-old plane trees. Outbuildings: a guardhouse, garage, kitchen, living room, two bedrooms. Walled vegetable garden. Three large car garages. Driveway, funerary monument. Large outbuildings, stables, box, shed, a 3-room apartment, large and beautiful greenhouse-orangery opening onto the vegetable garden. Along the Saulx River, a 20th century brick mill, in need of complete restoration. Engine room, turbine, pontoon, kitchen, three bedrooms, large attic. Water rights established in title. Roof to be redone. Historic Monument Protection: The facades and roofs of the castle (main body and pavilions), its plot of land, the entrance gate with its lions, the masonry of the curtain walls, the west staircase and the two sphinxes guarding it, the moats and the access bridge, as well as the interior decoration of the great hall: registration by decree of November 28, 2011 Location: - Shops 3km - Vitry-le-François (all services) 20km - TGV station 20km then Paris 1h20 - Paris 200km Price: 857,600 euros agency fees included (including 6.71% agency fees payable by the purchaser). Information on the risks to which this property is exposed is available on the Géorisques website: www.georisques.gouv.fr
