Château for sale near Bourges

Stunning chateau and outbuildings with a successful history in the events industry. The chateau itself is well-equipped and elegant with lovely spacious entertaining rooms. Reception room for 200 guests. Outbuildings. Wine cellar and tasting room.

Located less than 250km south of Paris, Champagne Berrichonne is a picturesque region of gently rolling plains spanning the Indre and Cher departments. Known primarily for cereal farming, it is also home to high-quality wine production, including the renowned Reuilly and Quincy crus.

Strategically positioned in central France, the region sits at the crossroads of major motorways, connecting Brussels and Paris to Toulouse, and Geneva to Nantes via the Loire Valley. Visitors can explore charming small towns with half-timbered houses, such as Issoudun, Vatan, and Mehun-sur-Yèvre, a former royal capital.

Nearby, Bourges stands out as a city of art and history, with a strong aeronautics and defense industry presence. Its historic center features landmarks like the Jacques-Coeur Palace and Saint-Etienne’s Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A trip to the region would be incomplete without a visit to Reuilly’s wine cellars, perfect for an evening of wine tasting in a château’s elegant salons.

At the end of a long, lime tree-lined driveway, a majestic black pine stands as a symbolic guardian at the entrance of the estate. Beyond it, the château and its buildings form a traditional U-shaped layout: the Château and its outbuildings to the west, the guest house to the south, and the former stables, known as the Longère, to the east.

The château itself is a square, two-story building with an attic and a four-sided slate roof, adorned with gabled dormers featuring pinnacles. On the courtyard side, a square tower with a gable roof stands prominently.
The main entrance features a round, unfinished staircase tower, topped with neo-Gothic machicolations and a conical roof.
To its side, the building extends perpendicularly, ending in a projecting apse overlooking the park. A round tower with a conical roof marks the southwest corner.

To the south of the château, a single-story zinc-roofed annex, known as the Communs, connects seamlessly to the main building, serving as additional living quarters.

Entering the château, a bright entrance hall leads left to a cloakroom with a WC and a corridor that extends past a study, leading to the kitchen and various utility rooms (laundry, boiler room, storerooms).
To the right, the hall opens into the grand billiards room, followed by the dining room with a private sitting area in the tower. The apsidal sitting room and a small music room lie on the opposite side. A grand staircase leads to the upper floors.

On the first floor, a parquet-floored corridor gives access to five spacious bedrooms, each with an en-suite bathroom.
A sitting room sits at the corridor’s midpoint, while a service staircase at the far end connects to the kitchens below and the communal quarters above. This intermediate communal floor includes a TV lounge and three additional bedrooms, each similarly equipped.

The second floor houses a spacious 50sqm meeting room, a relaxation room, and two bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, all set beneath high attic ceilings.

In the basement, a vast wine cellar with brick vaults and gravel flooring provides the perfect environment for storage. A tasting room has also been arranged for guests to enjoy the estate’s finest selections.

Outbuildings :
- The guest house, used as a gîte and restored in 2000, has a sitting room with wood-burning stove, a library, a modern kitchen, a shower room, a bedroom and a very large bathroom.
- La Longère has two flats and various sheds. The first, which is used as a gîte and whose ground floor was restored in 2020, comprises a living room with wood-burning stove, a modern kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom and, upstairs, a bedroom with bathroom. The second floor features a large lounge and, upstairs, two bedrooms with en suite bathrooms.
Adjoining the farmhouse, but out of sight, is a large awning for storing wood and maintenance equipment.
- The Spa, installed in the 2000s, is a building that opens onto the grounds, with a large Jacuzzi on the ground floor and an upstairs office room that could be converted into a gym.
- The Coupole de réception, set a little way away from the château, has a reception room that can accommodate up to 200 seated guests, a professional warming room, a cloakroom, APMR toilets and a compulsory fire reserve. Tables and chairs are available for sale as an option.
- An open shed of around 100 sqm, hidden behind the farmhouse, can accommodate three cars or maintenance equipment.

The park covers around ten hectares and is a sort of large island in the middle of the Champagne berrichonne plains. Surrounded by this wooded area, more than 500 metres from the first houses, the property is not overlooked and is ideal for organising events without constraints.
The driveways running through the grounds are bordered by groves of Austrian black pines, while a large green square can be seen on the west side, offering a beautiful view from the gravelled terrace.

All this gives the property a vast yet intimate character, typical of the aristocratic residences of the Romantic period.