Off-market. A protected estate of more than 100 hectares, released by introduction only
An 18th-century château, protected as a historic monument. It stands at the centre of a private estate of more than 100 hectares: woodland, meadow, parkland and formal garden. The property is offered off-market. Location, address and full documentation go only to qualified buyers, under confidentiality.
The estate is unusually complete. The château itself is about 1,050 sqm, over a cellared basement, ground and first floors, a mezzanine and a convertible attic. Three further residences sit alongside it. An attached south wing of about 560 sqm holds the private chapel. A 17th-century logis of about 280 sqm joins the main house on two levels. A 19th-century maison de maître of about 350 sqm stands at the head of the stable courtyard. Together the four total roughly 2,240 sqm.
The outbuildings add considerably more. A protected medieval barn of about 650 sqm now serves as an indoor arena, and has the volume to become a wellness building. A protected long building of about 300 sqm holds a reception room and kitchenette, with its own walled garden and pool. There is also an orangery of 150 sqm with a greenhouse, a five-bedroom staff house, a caretaker's cottage and three staff studios. The stables enclose a courtyard of 65 by 35 metres and take more than twenty horses, with broodmare and foal boxes, treatment rooms, an office and a saddlery.
Châteaux of this period come to market regularly. Ones that arrive with a chapel, a medieval barn, a working stud, a professional kitchen and more than 100 hectares of unbroken land do not. This is not simply a protected house with grounds. It is a complete estate that already has the infrastructure of an institution.
The estate offers separation without isolation. The château sits behind its own parkland, facing a formal parterre and a mirror pool. Woodland closes the view on every side. Nothing overlooks it. Yet a high-speed rail station and a regional airport are both within about half an hour.
The ground and first floors were fully renovated during the property's most recent operating period. The reception rooms run the width of the main facade. An entrance hall opens into a grand salon under moulded plasterwork, then a sitting room, library, dining room, breakfast room and billiard room. Each has tall shuttered windows and original parquet. The scale is institutional. The furnishing is domestic, and that is what makes the rooms liveable.
The bedrooms are individually decorated rather than matched: panelled and canopied in one, ikat and burr walnut in the next, painted and papered in a third. This is what hospitality use left behind, and it is an asset. A buyer inherits fifteen finished rooms instead of a decorating programme.
The estate can absorb a household, its staff and its guests without any of them meeting unless they mean to.
This estate sits in a gap that is hard to reproduce. Four things explain why.
First, protection. Full monument listing on the principal building is a narrow category. It limits what an owner can alter. It also brings permanence, access to specialist restoration frameworks, and tax treatment on qualifying works that ordinary period property does not get.
Second, completeness. Most estates this old have been broken up: the farm sold, the stables converted, the land parcelled. Here everything remains in one title. Château, chapel, wing, logis, mansion, barn, stables, orangery, farm buildings, staff housing and land.
Third, optionality. The same asset works as a private residence, a hospitality operation, an equestrian business, an events venue, or a phased mix of those. Few properties can turn in four directions without planning risk on the fundamentals.
Fourth, land with access. More than 100 unbroken hectares with a river, an independent water source and mature woodland cannot be bought later at any price. Land at this scale is normally remote. This is not: high-speed rail and a business-jet-capable airport are both about half an hour away.
The buyer is not acquiring a large house. They are acquiring the last undivided version of an estate that most of its peers have already lost.
The case here is structural, not yield-driven.
Supply is finite and shrinking. Fully protected châteaux that still hold their land, their service buildings and a recent operating history are rare, because the pattern of the past century has been subdivision. Every estate that gets broken up shrinks the comparable set permanently.
Demand is narrow but international, and largely indifferent to domestic interest rates, because buyers at this level pay in equity. What limits the buyer pool is not price. It is appetite for stewardship.
Access is what makes the commercial cases viable rather than theoretical. Guests, staff and suppliers all have to reach the estate. A high-speed rail station about 30 minutes away, a regional airport taking business jets about 35 minutes away, and two international airports within one and two hours by road put the property inside a comfortable day's reach of most European capitals. Remote estates of this size rarely have that.
The commercial infrastructure is what separates this from a purely residential comparable. The estate already has a professional kitchen, a restaurant-scale dining room, a 100 sqm meeting room, 15 finished rooms with a route to 22, a chapel for ceremonies, a reception building, and a stud with its own access. Consenting and building all of that from nothing would take years and substantial capital.
One caution. The vendor has costed a phased capital programme. It covers the remaining buildings, the conversion opportunities in the barn and long building, and the return of the estate to full operation. That figure is material to the total cost of entry. It is disclosed to qualified buyers under confidentiality and should be reviewed before any offer. No specific return projections are implied.
This is not a developer product. There is no scheme, no phasing and no delivery risk. The estate exists, sits in single private ownership, and has been maintained continuously. The château's ground and first floors were fully renovated inside during its most recent operating period.
The sale is handled off-market, by introduction. Shre Global acts on the buy-side here. We are instructed by the buyer, not the vendor. Engagement terms, including our fee, are agreed in writing before any introduction is made. That structure means verification, valuation and negotiation are all done for the purchaser.
What is on offer is stewardship of an existing asset with a documented history, not a place in a development programme.
Access is by introduction, subject to a confidentiality undertaking, arranged through Shre Global. On qualification we release the location, the full photographic and video material, the building schedule, the protection documentation, the costed capital programme, land plans and price.
The estate lies in open farming country. The area has low population density, large private landholdings and a long tradition of equestrian and agricultural estates. It draws owners who want real seclusion and working land, not a resort address. There has been no speculative development pressure here, which is why estates of this size have survived undivided. The approach is a private avenue through woodland. There are no near neighbours, and nothing overlooks the house.
Seclusion on this scale usually costs travel time. Here it does not. A high-speed rail station is about 30 minutes away by road, and the fastest non-stop service reaches Paris in 1 hour 18 minutes, with around 15 departures a day. A regional airport sits about 35 minutes away. Its 2,350 metre paved runway takes large-cabin business jets as well as scheduled and charter traffic. Two further international airports are within about one hour and about two hours by road. For an owner dividing time between the estate and a European city, or an operator bringing guests in from abroad, the practical friction is low.
The setting is agricultural and wooded rather than touristic. That keeps the estate private all year, and keeps running costs and local pressures predictable. Inside the boundary the land does the work: 60 hectares of woodland, 40 of meadow, mature specimen trees, a river, a natural spring and reservoir, a walled kitchen garden, and irrigation for the formal gardens.
The chateau is protected as a historic monument in full. The chapel is separately protected in full. Facades and roofs are protected on the south wing, the medieval barn, the medieval towers and the long building. In practice, exterior work and work to protected interiors needs consent from the heritage authority, built to set standards and usually with an approved architect. This cuts both ways. Consent adds time and cost. Protection also brings permanence, access to specialist restoration frameworks, and tax treatment on qualifying works that unprotected period property does not get. Budget for heritage-grade specification on any exterior programme.
The vendor chose a confidential process. Location, address, video and the full document pack stay out of public marketing. They go only to buyers who have qualified and signed a confidentiality undertaking. This is a filter, not a comment on the asset. It keeps enquiries to parties with real capacity. It avoids the price signalling that a long public listing creates in a thin market. And it protects a property that is both a private home and a former business from casual attention.
Partly. The ground and first floors of the château were fully renovated during its most recent operating period, and 15 rooms and suites are finished and furnished. The property is sold partially furnished. But the vendor has also costed a phased capital programme. It covers the remaining buildings, the conversion opportunities in the barn and long building, and the return of the estate to full operation. That figure is material to the total cost of entry. It is disclosed under confidentiality and should be reviewed before any offer.
Four, in rising order of intensity. First, a private residence with staff accommodation and guest capacity. Second, a hospitality or private-hire property, using the 15 existing rooms with a route to at least 22, the professional kitchen, the restaurant-scale dining room and the 100 sqm meeting room. Third, an events and ceremonies venue, using the chapel, the reception building and the walled gardens. Fourth, an equestrian business, using the stud, the 65 by 35 metre courtyard arena and the barn indoor arena. The stud has its own access and could run without touching the main house. Two things make these realistic rather than theoretical. The property already has a hospitality operating history, which shortens the consent path. And guests can actually get there: a high-speed rail station is about 30 minutes away and a regional airport taking business jets is about 35 minutes away.
The stud is a purpose-built 19th-century complex, not a converted stable block. It takes more than twenty horses, and adds broodmare boxes, foal boxes, four treatment rooms, an office and a saddlery. The ranges surround a courtyard of 65 by 35 metres that was used as a riding arena. The protected medieval barn, about 650 sqm, has served as an indoor arena. A 19th-century mansion of about 350 sqm stands at the head of the complex, with its own garden and room for a pool. Importantly, the stud has its own access from the road, so an equestrian operation can run without traffic crossing the main approach.
Every principal building is on mains drainage. Heating is gas in the main buildings, with electric radiators in the south wing and the stud mansion. The first floor of the main house is air-conditioned. A natural spring and reservoir feed the installed irrigation for the gardens. Staff accommodation is already in place: a five-bedroom staff house, a caretaker's cottage at the gate and three studios. An estate this size is a staffed operation, not a domestic one, so budget for grounds, equestrian and building maintenance. Detailed service and running-cost documentation is available on qualification.
Price is disclosed on application, to qualified buyers, under confidentiality. On representation: Shre Global acts on the buy-side. We are instructed by the buyer, not the vendor, and our engagement terms, including the fee, are agreed in writing before any introduction. If the vendor's side pays us a fee on the same transaction, we credit it in full against ours. There is no double charge, and the buyer pays only the balance, if any. Full terms sit in the search and representation mandate.
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