PITHIVIERS, Centre-Val de Loire, Address available on request

In the Loiret department, a village house, its outbuildings built up against the side of a church and gardens in the heart of the Rimarde Valley. The entire property extends over a surface area of approximately 1,200 m², while the buildings constructed along the east end of the Saint-Brigide parish church, endowed with three apses from the 11th and 12th centuries, have been perfectly restored.
Located in the upper part of the village, the house's main entrance is perpendicular to the religious edifice's forecourt. A second entrance, through a large wooden gate, opens onto the garden and all the buildings facing it, namely a main house and a guest house for a total surface area of approximately 160 m², a restored 120-m² barn equipped with a Finnish soapstone wood stove, as well as a workshop and a lean-to.
Reorganised into a square plan in the 19th century, and built over much older foundations, the house in lime-pointed exposed stone is crowned with an antique tile gabled roof. A few stone steps highlight the two glazed front doors. The main façade is perforated with windows overlooking the garden topped with wood or stone lintels. 
The whole is enclosed by the church's lateral wall and low stone walls, which still reveal views of its stained glass windows, apse, bell tower as well as the verdant valley below. Separating the property from the neighbouring house is a high stone wall as well as a wall of one of the outbuildings covered in Virginia creeper or wisteria. The group of buildings is articulated around two tree-filled gardens, one of which is bordered by the apses. The view over the Rimarde Valley is remarkable.