Le Moulin, on the other side of the park, is a private, rustic place where the pictures and furniture have been sourced from local antique dealers...

In the big stone mill on the water’s edge, there are eight rooms and apartments with antique floor tiles, waxed parquet floors and fine antique furniture, spacious terraces and ultra-comfortable bath rooms.

On the ground floor, there are some good dry logs, ready for the fire, which add a warming note to this charming country hideaway. And on the rather cosier and more contemporary second floor, there is a suite nestling under the eaves which is appointed in a resolutely 18th century style.