- Photo: Paris Seine, France
Château to renovate,
Please see the virtual video tour, by clicking on the link in the main photo. Our local agent Andy Portsmouth brings you this French château with private chapel, both to restore, that would make a fabulous wedding venue - with three huge reception rooms downstairs (73m2, 71m2, 59m2) and 16 (potentially 20) bedrooms: it was originally a (giant) hunting lodge.. and so the layout was always intended for hosting many people. The château sits amid a huge forest - it's so peaceful here, as if you're in the middle of nowhere, yet the château is just 13km from the lovely university city of Poitiers (with TGV to Paris 1hr25m, and Bordeaux), and 18km from Poitiers airport (London, Barcelona, Edinburgh). Built in 1780, then enlarged seamlessly in 1850, the original heating system is still in place albeit long-since disused and disfunctional: designed to circulate hot air from a basement wood boiler to vents and ceramic-tiled boxes - you will see o...