Owners since 2010. Guests welcomed for nine years.
Three rooms in a private castle of the early sixteenth century, in the Berry, at the heart of France.
- 4.99 ★89 reviews on Airbnb
- Guest Favouritetop 5% of listings
- Nine yearsof welcoming guests
- Breakfastincluded, every morning
- Private bathroomin every room
- Free parkingin the courtyard
What this is
A house, not a hotel
We welcome you in person between three and nine in the evening and take you up to your room. In the morning, breakfast is served as a buffet of good local produce, in the dining room or on the terrace if the weather allows.
Included
Breakfast
Of the 89 reviews left on Airbnb, 53 mention the breakfast. It is served between 7:30 and 10:00.
Three rooms, six beds
Each with its own bathroom and a walk-in shower, across the castle and an outbuilding. La Suite Parentale and La Chambre Éléonore are reached by the spiral staircase, on the second floor of the castle. Bed linen, towels and toiletries are provided in every room.
La Suite Parentale
Two bedrooms of twenty square metres each, sharing a bathroom with a walk-in shower and WC. The first bedroom has a nineteenth-century brass bed (140 × 190), the second a Louis-Philippe period bed (110 × 185).
La Chambre Éléonore
Fifty square metres, divided between the bedroom (30 m²), the bathroom and the hallway. One bed of 160 × 200, one Empire period bed (120 wide), and a large bathroom with a walk-in shower and WC.
La Chambre Liberté
Reached by the outside staircase: forty square metres under a fine eighteenth-century timber roof. One bed of 160 × 200 and an Empire period bed of 110 × 180. Bathroom with WC, walk-in shower and a wardrobe. This room gives you rather more independence.
On foot, on two wheels
The path passes the door
The house stands directly on the Chemin des Maîtres Sonneurs and on one of the routes walked towards Santiago de Compostela. Walkers and cyclists stop for a single night and go on in the morning, which is exactly what this house is good at. We keep three bicycles for guests who would rather ride out into the Berry than drive through it.
On the record since 1439
The first mention of this house is a homage paid in 1439 by Jacques des Barres, esquire, seigneur de la Pouzerie. Owners follow in a documented line for five and a half centuries - among them Aubin Simon, who as <em>Simon de la Pouzerie</em> sat with the delegates of the Third Estate for the bailliage of Berry on 23 March 1789, six weeks before the Estates-General opened.
George Sand's corner of the Berry
Deep countryside, and one of the most written-about corners of rural France - because George Sand wrote about it, from a house you can see in a morning.
Nohant-Vic
George Sand's house, where she lived and wrote and where Chopin spent his summers. The Festival Chopin plays there every summer.
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Château d'Ars
Closer to us than La Châtre. Every July it holds Le Son Continu - the gathering of luthiers and <em>maîtres sonneurs</em> from across Europe.
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La Châtre
Shops, a market and restaurants - and the town whose standard history was written by one of this house's own owners.
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How to find us
The address
5 rue du Château - La Pouzerie36400 Thevet-Saint-Julien
France
- Season
- 1 April - 15 October
- Arrival
- 15:00 - 21:00
- Parking
- Free, in the courtyard
- La Châtre
- 7 km by road
- Coordinates
- 46.6149, 2.0554
- By train or air
- Tell us how you are travelling and we will send directions
What is here, and what isn't
So that you know before you come.
Here
- ✓Breakfast included, every morning
- ✓Private bathroom in every room, walk-in shower
- ✓Free parking in the courtyard
- ✓Three bicycles, free for guests
- ✓Baby equipment, free of charge
- ✓A salon with a quarter-grand piano you may play
- ✓Central heating, towels and linen
Not here
- - Wi-Fi in parts of the castle only - the walls are the reason
- - No television, and no kitchen for guests
- - No washing machine and no air conditioning
- - No lock on the bedroom doors
- - Stairs, and no lift
- - No pets - we're sorry
- - No dinner - but we will book you a table
Contact us
Ask us about your dates
There is no booking calendar on this site, and that is deliberate: with three rooms we would rather answer you ourselves than let a screen guess. Tell us when you would like to come and you will get a real answer with a real price.
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