Hi there. Today I am going to take you to discover a magnificent domain which is a few minutes from Dieppe, a few minutes from the beaches of Dieppe, and this domain is 7 and a half hectares, here we are in the middle of the countryside, we have nature next to us, and this domain is made up of a large castle of more than 800 square meters, on four levels, in the Louis XIII style, and on this large domain, we also have a mill, a farmhouse and then large stables that we will see right after. We will start the visit with the ground floor of the castle. This castle was built by Charles Lebon in the middle of the 19th century, a very wealthy industrialist from Diepp, founder of the Lebon company, a company producing and distributing lighting gas and electricity. When he died, Charles Lebon was ruined, so the castle was put up for auction, and it was Achille Arosa, an art collector, who recovered it. His brother Gustave Arosa is known to be one of the famous painter Gauguin's tutors. Achille Arosa, a wealthy collector and banker in Paris, was the godfather of the famous Claude Debussy. He even paid for her first piano lessons. Several owners succeeded one another, and finally the castle was bequeathed to the Saint-Augustine sisters and then finally left to the monks of Notre-Dame de Bonne-Espérance. We are here in the entrance hall, so that immediately sets the tone. We have high ceilings, we have cornices, we have stone walls, and we have a cabochon floor, we really are in a castle here. The last occupation of this place was made by monks and that will explain the layout that we will find inside because its last use was for a purely religious purpose. We will now go to the chapel, which was perhaps initially a large living room. This room is quite incredible with these volumes, we have a very high ceiling, it is very very large. This room was perhaps originally through with large windows overlooking the park, mullioned windows. And today, recently it was a prayer room, but restored it could be a magnificent living room, or a very beautiful dining room, with this beautiful surface, this high ceiling. The central hall serves 2 wings. We saw the chapel on one side, we are going to see the salons which are on the other side. At the time, this entrance hall most certainly had a magnificent ceremonial staircase here, with a funnel above. All of this was changed during the 20th century. We will arrive in a first living room. The rooms have a lot of potential, you have to succeed in projecting yourself, but you still have period elements. Here, for example, we have a chiseled marble fireplace, a sculpted marble fireplace, in pink marble. We have a staff rosette on the ceiling, we most certainly have herringbone or herringbone parquet flooring under this linoleum, which I dare to hope has been put in place to protect the floor. In terms of the decorations here we have Louis XV style woodwork, and then a very large library that takes up the entire wall, we can call this room the library. We're going to see a second living room. By the way, here we have a service staircase, with a goods lift. As I said, the building was modified for the use that the monks had of it at the time. This living room is still in the spirit of the castle, a large living room with high ceilings. Mullioned windows that directly overlook the park, you can imagine yourself having dinner here in the middle of the room and then opening this large bay window, you arrive on the terrace which is suspended and which gives access to the view of the entire park. Remarkable element of this room is that we have hangings on the walls, on the four walls we have hangings. So this room is very bright because we have large windows, and we could imagine at the time, having seen French gardens, and even today we have access to this terrace, directly from this room, and we have an unobstructed view of the whole of the land which adorns the estate. We are here in the kitchens, which are what they are, but which have a lot of potential because we have a view of the park, we have two very large openings so this kitchen is very bright, we have a central island, we has a large chimney here, and then what is interesting is that we have a scullery, a storeroom which is right next to it and we can access it with vehicles, with a truck with a car to unload food unload supplies and store them right here. In the continuity of the kitchen that we have just seen, we have this room which is an ordinary dining room, and therefore we saw the beautiful living rooms earlier, but there are also rooms which would deserve to be to be redone, to be redecorated because here we have very beautiful volumes, we have a very beautiful castle, but we also have a decoration, a reorganization to be planned in order to be able to restore the charm of this building, and then the must of the decoration of the 21st century, we have an elevator which is fully functional and which serves the floors. We are here on the first floor, so as I told you earlier, the building is made up of 4 levels, we have the cellars, the ground floor that we have just seen, the first floor where we are, and then we have a second floor just above us. So this first floor is served by a wrought iron spiral staircase with its wooden handrail, and then a second elevator. So this first floor we have a large corridor which crosses it and which will lead to several rooms, several bedrooms to the right and left, we must have about fifteen bedrooms here, I'm going to show you one. So all the rooms have been repartitioned, we see that the bedrooms are small, at the time it must have been much larger, there might even have been through bedrooms , but we still have the potential here, it is that we have a view of the park, we even have the balcony, with its wrought iron railing right here. We can imagine a large suite with a bathroom, and then waking up in the morning, opening the French window and having access, and a view of the park right here. This corridor runs the length of the entire building, it is very, very long. We have several rooms to the right and left, bedrooms, bathrooms. I'm going to show you a second space here, which must have been an office. We still have a marble fireplace which is right next to it, and we still have the view of this park, a very bright room with large bay windows, it's really the potential that this chateau has here. Here we come to the second floor. We find the same layout as on the first floor, we have a large corridor which serves a set of rooms in a row. So here the monks had started some work. They had partitions made, they started redoing the ceilings. So these rooms on the second floor have been redone, the partitions have been redone, the ceilings have been redone, everything has been repainted, these rooms are very clean, all that remains is to find out how to exploit them, and there are has many. We are now going to see the attic which is served by a small staircase. We are here in the attic. There are several interesting things here, they are already very healthy, we have ventilation which is right here which ventilates the room. The frame is in perfect condition, there are no traces of humidity, there are no traces of rot, or infection by various critters. They also took the trouble to insulate the crawlers, so it's something quite rare in these large buildings but which deserves to be underlined. We are under the castle. The cellars are very very large because they run the entire length of the chateau. So here we are under vaulted brick cellars. And so here we are going to find the technical parts, so we have for example here the oil tank because I did not tell you about it but it is an oil boiler which supplies the whole castle. So all the rooms in the chateau have hot water radiators, which are fed by the oil-fired boiler. We also have a laundry just at the end, and various technical rooms. These cellars are very interesting, since in a renovation project, we could put the whole of the technical part of the house there, we could even make the networks there, and find the rooms which are just above, like a crawlspace. We will now leave the castle, and go see the outbuildings, so the stables and then the small farmhouse. We continue in the domain, we are going to see the farmhouse which is right here. The estate is very very large, it has been said that it was 7 and a half hectares. We are even lucky to have on this area, a river, a small stream that passes here, which is the Varenne. And on this area too we have a small island in the middle, so we have a mill and buildings that we will not see unfortunately today, but which are in the middle of a small island, and which are therefore exploitable potentially. We head towards a farmhouse, a brick farmhouse, which was used by the monks as a fruit jellies workshop. Because the monks had several activities, they prayed and they worked, and it is here in particular that they made fruit legs. So this building has remained in the state for which it was made, so for the fruit jellies workshop, we even still have all the machinery here, the vats which made it possible to manufacture, to make this fruit jellies. We still have all the kitchen tools, here we even have the trays with the wires that allowed us to directly cut the fruit jellies once they were made, to prepare and package them. From the outside, the building is in fairly good condition, we are on brick masonry with a slate roof, we have two chimneys that crown it all, so I told you here it was transformed into a workshop, into a space of work. We could very well imagine rehabilitating this building because everything happens, electricity, water, everything happens here. We could very well rehabilitate it, to make it either a guest house, or a small gîte, a building really independent of the central body, of the castle which is just at the back there. The estate covers 7.5 hectares, as we said earlier, it is very very large, there are several buildings , which is what gives it great potential. Indeed there is a little bit of redevelopment work, rehabilitation, but there is a lot of potential with all this building, this park which has many assets, which has this river which has large agricultural land behind, and especially what we're going to see right there after right away, it's the stables that are at the back over there, and we could very well imagine an equestrian activity here, the horses would stay in the stables here and could very well go to the all the agricultural land behind it. In the extension of the path that leads to the castle, we arrive here on the part of the old stables which are in the shape of a "U", and composed of 3 buildings. The building at the back which is spread over several levels, which could be transformed or rehabilitated into a stable to accommodate horses, with the park we have here it could be a magnificent place to have horses. Or make a gîte there, or a guest house. The potential is there because the architecture is really impressive. And then we have these two buildings, which come to close the "U", which was also stables at the base, we can clearly see the boxes here. And the other part here which has been converted into an office, and a living space. So here there is a lot of potential and the structural work is in very good condition, the masonry is beautiful, the roofs are in good condition. It should be known that the monks made rehandlings of roofs rather regularly to prevent that all that is damaged. We are here in front of the dovecote which is at the entrance of the property. So at the time, any property of this type had a dovecote, so here it is not lacking, we have it. So unfortunately it was degraded by tree branches that fell on it so it deserves to be restored. After this dovecote we therefore finished this visit, visit of this large estate of 7.5 hectares and a half, composed of the castle of 800 square meters, the farmhouse, its mill, its large park crossed by the river and the stables that we went to see just before. So this area has a lot of potential, there is work to be planned, and we will now have to find a new life for it, thank you, see you very soon.
