Puiseaux, Centre-Val de Loire 45390

A characterful, renovated house with a garden and annexes, in a village in the north of France's Loiret department, an hour and a half south of Paris. The house was built in 1850. It bears witness to an ancestral tradition in agriculture, based on winegrowing and saffron. In the village, several dwellings with monumental doors evoke life from yesteryear, before the rise of large-scale cultivation of cereal and fodder. You enter the house from a small square set back from the main street, via a covered carriage entrance or a door that leads straight inside the dwelling. The covered carriage entrance forms a link between the house and two outbuildings, which together form an L shape on a 600m² plot. A small terrace, a walled garden and a well in perfect condition complete the property. The facade is made of rubble stone with lime pointing. It features semicircular-arched wooden window frames, set behind decorative stone columns crowned with capitals. The house offers a 180m² floor area. It has a ground floor and a first floor, as well as a loft space. It forms an L shape in one of the corners of the plot. An extension, lower in height, houses a kitchen. The interior has been renovated masterfully in recent years to offer modern comfort, with home automation for the heating and alarm system, yet with historical features preserved, including exposed stonework and beams, a stone fireplace and cast-iron radiators.