Just 20 minutes from Bayeux and 9 km from the sea—near the D-Day beaches, including Omaha Beach—Normandie Privilège presents a distinguished Napoleon III–style manor with its walled park, farm buildings, and surrounding land.
The property lies in a commune of the Bessin area attached to Isigny-sur-Mer, within a preserved rural setting at the heart of the Parc naturel régional des marais du Cotentin et du Bessin. Caen is just over half an hour away, and western Paris can be reached in around three hours.
Set within a walled park planted with mature trees—some attributed to the Bühler brothers—the estate comprises a manor enlarged in the 19th century in the Napoleon III style, together with outbuildings and a farm. A pond, orchard, topiary garden, and former washhouse complete this carefully composed setting.
THE MANOR
Originally built on a rectangular plan and later reworked during the Second Empire, the main house displays a balanced composition crowned by a mansard roof punctuated with dormer windows. Each façade is accentuated by a triangular pediment with an oculus.
The living space totals approximately 592 sqm, arranged across 17 principal rooms, including 12 bedrooms, two bathrooms, one shower room, and several WCs.
On the garden level, a central hall leads to the reception rooms.
To the left, a sequence of a drawing room, billiard room, and library opens broadly onto the park.
To the right, a second drawing room, extended by the dining room, connects with the kitchen and a secondary dining area set within the back kitchen. A former service entrance also provides access to these spaces. Boiler room and WCs complete this level.
The first floor, reached via both the main staircase and a service stair, is arranged around a landing lit by a pyramidal glass roof. It comprises a large dormitory with washroom, three further bedrooms with washrooms, and a suite consisting of a principal bedroom and adjoining room. A bathroom and a shower room complete the floor.
The second floor, accessed via the rear staircase, offers three bedrooms with washrooms, a suite similar to that on the floor below, a bathroom, separate WCs, a staff bedroom, and three attics suitable for conversion.
The house retains its original features throughout: parquet floors, stone paving, wood panelling, marble fireplaces, wall décor, and period staircase. The buildings have been consistently maintained, though updating works should be envisaged.
OUTBUILDINGS AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES
A substantial outbuilding—likely dating from the 18th century—provides approximately 370 sqm on the ground floor (former garages, laundry with fireplace) and nearly 200 sqm upstairs, where a theatre remains, fitted out in a decorative scheme created for the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
Additional elements include the remains of a greenhouse, a bakehouse with its original oven, an oratory.
A separate farmstead with independent access, currently let, offers around 90 sqm of living space along with barns and agricultural outbuildings.
LAND AND SETTING
The estate extends to just over 9 hectares, comprising the manor’s park (2.3 ha), the farm surroundings (1.1 ha), and agricultural land currently under lease (6.1 ha).
The whole forms a cohesive and harmonious domain, where water features, mature trees, and secondary buildings create a rare continuity of landscape in this part of the Normandy coast.