2023-10-15 07:00:05
«To my knowledge, there are no other villas with such pronounced architecture in this part of Brittany», explains Chrystelle Masson of the Patrice Besse agency, specializing in buildings of character, in charge of the sale. Indeed, it is rare to see a neo-Moorish villa on the Breton coast, like the one currently offered for sale for more than 2.5 million euros. We are more used to seeing fishermen’s houses, farmhouses with granite walls, colored shutters and slate roofs, malouinières or even thatched cottages. No wonder the locals were stunned by its extravagant appearance during its construction.
After passing through the hands of several owners, the villa of more than 300 m², located between Saint-Brieuc and Paimpol, on the Goëlo coast since 1880, in Côtes-d’Armor (22), it fell into the The purse of a Belgian banker who did numerous works, in the orientalist wave, with exotic decorations in shimmering colors. A setting worthy of a tale from the Arabian Nights. The banker added a new wing and bow windows.
A water tower under the bulb
The villa is visible from miles around with its bulb which tops the typically Moorish building. “Basically, the bulb was a water tower. A rainwater collection system was installed on the roof terrace, and the water flowed through cisterns under the house supplying the villa with running water.», says Chrystelle Masson. A pioneering system which is no longer in operation today but the remarkable bulb remains. Other remarkable elements: the mosaics on the floor, the fireplace, the coffered ceilings as well as the numerous moldings and exotic carpets. Almost all rooms offer a direct view of the sea.
In the original configuration, on the ground floor there was a single room as in the palaces of the Thousand and One Nights but now the room is partitioned. The mosaic on the floor remained the same in all the rooms on the ground floor, however. But the villa has retained the majority of its assets. It was almost demolished to be replaced by a hotel at the end of the 1970s but it was finally bought by the current owner who decided to build a 4-star hotel below the villa and keep the house as it was. “Fortunately, it is part of the local landscape today», comments Chrystelle Masson.
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