Tours, Centre-Val de Loire 37000

A 19th century townhouse with a 600 m garden on the edge of Tours, near to the Pont Napoleon and Pont Wilson bridges. The buildings that make up the property open onto the pavement of a quiet street, with walls enclosing the garden. The property is made up of three buildings aligned on a north to south axis. The most northerly building is a former outbuilding with two storeys that overlooks a courtyard. The second one opens onto the garden. Following the addition of a storey in 1995, with four levels, one of which is a cellar, it is the tallest building in the property. A passageway links the house to the neighbouring building at the intersection of the two edifices. The house overlooks a third, lower-rise construction to the south, referred to as the conservatory. Most of the walls are made of tuffeau stone while the roofs are made of slate. It is easy to make your way around the buildings once inside, because they are interconnected at every level. The garden and the neighbouring park stretch out on the other side of the house. You can reach the walled garden through a wrought iron gate from the street.A path lined with Tasmanian tree ferns and bamboos leads to a garden shed and the garage on one side and the house with its small courtyard on the other. The other building used to be an outbuilding of a neighbouring property. The passageway that links the two houses is now no longer in use and has been divided, but it still never fails to surprise visitors.