Fifteen bedrooms
Nobody has to drive home.
A house that receives one party at a time can also put it to bed. Fifteen rooms, two nights, and a breakfast under glass — the part of the day nobody plans for and everybody remembers.
Where everyone sleeps
- The first floor — six rooms
- Tall sash windows onto the parterre, each with its own bathroom. The two at the south end share a connecting door.
- The second floor — seven rooms
- Under the mansard roof, smaller and darker, four with baths and three with showers. The warmest rooms in the house in October.
- The Gardener's Lodge — two rooms
- A separate stone cottage at the orchard gate, ninety metres from the house. For the couple, or for whoever needs the quiet.
- Sleeps
- Thirty-two in beds, across the fifteen rooms
- Cots and extra beds
- Six of each, at no charge, arranged at your final visit
- Step-free
- Two ground-floor rooms in the Lodge; the main staircase has no lift
Two nights, in order
- The night before The house fills quietly
Arrival from four. Most parties eat together in the ballroom that evening with the tables not yet dressed — it is the last time the room is ordinary, and people remember it. The kitchen is open to whoever you have brought in to cook.
- The wedding night Nobody leaves
The rooms are turned down during dinner. Guests who are not staying are collected from the courtyard gate; the drive holds four coaches without blocking the entrance.
- The morning after Breakfast under glass
Laid in the orangerie from nine to eleven-thirty. Departure by two, and no one comes to hurry you — the estate takes nothing the following day either.
The rooms are old rooms
The house was finished in 1904 and the bedrooms have been altered as little as the plumbing allows. Floors are original oak and they creak. Three of the second-floor rooms have doorways under six feet. None of the windows are double-glazed, which is why the parterre is audible at six in the morning and why we say so here rather than let you discover it.
What has been done properly: every room has its own bathroom, the water is hot in all fifteen at once, and the whole house is warm from September onwards. There is no television anywhere on the estate.
Beds beyond fifteen
Thirty-two is the honest ceiling. Parties larger than that put their remaining guests in Épernay, twenty-two minutes by road, and we will send you the three houses we send everyone to — no commission, no arrangement, just the ones that have never let a guest down.
Coaches back to town leave from the courtyard gate; the timings sit in the dossier alongside the access notes. The order of the day itself is under weddings.