For sale Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse - 19th-century Castle with exceptional park

SOLE AGENT - Located 20 minutes from Bayonne and 30 minutes from Biarritz, golf courses and beaches, this elegant castle has been renovated a few years ago with very good taste and discreet luxury. The entire property covers about 15 hectares composed of meadows, a forest, and an about 5-hectare park with a large English-style garden, a magnificent rose garden with over 4,500 roses and several hundred varieties, a large vegetable garden, and an orchard. The park has undergone remarkable landscaping work for more than twenty years, with the planting of more than 1,000 trees to complement the many century-old specimens already present. Maples, liquidambars, lagerstroemias, sequoias, cypresses, giant tulip trees, century-old oaks, magnolias, chestnuts, weeping willows, and birches notably make up this environment of great botanical richness. The orchard gathers hazelnuts, apple trees, peach trees, and pear trees. The whole was designed in the spirit of a forest composed of remarkable species, with a succession of flowering allowing the garden to maintain its interest and colors at each time of the year. No pesticides have been used there for twenty years, thus favoring a particularly preserved biodiversity. The park is now a real refuge for fauna and insects. The presence of a well and a spring also contributes to the autonomy of the property and the preservation of this exceptional ecosystem. The castle, deeply renovated, offers all the comfort one might expect from a property of this quality. It hosts a large reception lounge, a dining room, an office, a library, and a winter garden. On the same level are a fully equipped kitchen with pantry and laundry room, as well as a second dining room with fireplace, a second lounge, and a bedroom with a bathroom. All these rooms, oriented differently, have magnificent views over the park which offers many outdoor spaces away from prying eyes. The upper floors consist of five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two offices, a boudoir, and a cinema lounge. There are also many possibilities to create new rooms. Several dependencies complement this unique property: a caretaker’s house, a small guest house, a citrus greenhouse, a workshop, a barn for agricultural equipment, and garages. An perfectly preserved chapel within the domain adds a special character to this rare ensemble. The pool and its pool house are located away from view, near the rose garden and the orchard. Between meadows, forest, century-old trees, and gardens designed and enriched over more than twenty years, the estate now forms an exceptional refuge where built heritage, landscape, and biodiversity find a particularly harmonious balance. This property is especially unique on the market considering its proximity to the ocean, the level of its amenities, the privacy it offers, and the exceptional richness of its park, all just a few minutes from Biarritz and Bayonne.