Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, Brittany, Address available on request

A stone house dating back to the 1930s with a garden, beside a large beach on the Emerald Coast, in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo in northern Brittany. Walls and a gate enclose the property on the street side. From the road, you reach the house via a timber footbridge. A flight of steps leads straight down to the garden level. The house was built in the early 20th century during the golden age of seaside resorts and coastal holidays. It is made of dressed blocks of a stone known as Saint-Cast stone. This grey slate schist was widely used to build houses in the local region. The dwelling has a basement, a garden-level floor, a first floor at the same level as the road, and a second floor in the roof space, from where you can admire a sea view from several rooms. Many windows punctuate the east, west and south elevations. Some offer sea views. On the garden-level floor, there are broad, arched, glazed openings in which French windows lead out onto a terrace edged with a concrete wall of ermine-patterned openwork. The other windows and doors are square and rectangular. The house's slate roof is punctuated with dormers on its east and west sides.