Chateau de La Levade
property details
for a Patronship Hub House co-operative coliving project

Environment ✧ hills amongst windy rocky river valleys, scrubland and woods; hikes on doorstep

Services ✧ none, supermarket/village 10mins bike; town 25mins train

Access ✧ train at door; Ales 25mins, Nimes 1h (last 7pm); ~5h Paris/Barcelona (1 change)

Dedicated units for full-time residence.

Area ✧ after some 15 years on the market finally sold for 520k in Sept. 2023 and now being turned into a participatory housing project Un Jardin Jade-Or offering ~8 apartments and 200m2 of common space but solely as full-time primary residences
✦ on edge of cevennes thus fairly accessible whilst still having good countryside (though very hot summers and a bit depressing in winter, easily countered by the property's potential facilities)
✦ in good condition and apparently mostly ready to be used, having been converted to a B&B in 1999, but only used for maybe 15 years by a Belgian couple
✦ to optimise for coliving some use and capcity works would be required, such as for ensuites, and common kitchen would need creating

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has a small pool and 1.3ha of land on various terraces with ancient trees, part of which is across a bridge seemingly over an old mining haulage line to the station
✦ 50m2 south facing orangerie below the pool
✦ the top floor north wing has seperate access (2 studios or 4 rooms) with a connection to the main wing
✦ whilst the size is not great, it is in an L and seperate lively/calm common spaces should be possible, plus creation of some semi-independent bungalows/tinyhomes along the track at the north end of the property (though not much of this is included), or south-east at the back of other village buildings and the road where there is also a 80m2 cottage apparently included; if not additional buildings are likely possible nearby, notably there's 1500m2 of adjacent land that the village probably owns and demolished abandoned houses on, but htere's also significant buildings that appear empty
✦ part of the roadside wall has collapsed and will need renforcing and rebuilding

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hikes almost from door to castle, and along old mining haulage lines, climbing 600m; other longer ones near
✦ thai restaurant near; riverfront auberge 25mins walk
✦ 15mins bike to lake for kayak/SUP
✦ 15mins drive to probable streams and river swimming spots
✦ the local village of La Grande Combe is not very appealing at all, whereas the town of Alès is is fairly dynamic and has ongoing improvements with a new market hall pending
✦ village of Genolhac is 25mins train, the small towns of Anduze and St Ambroix are 35mins drive for some variation, whilst the excellent city of Nimes is 1h by direct train thus reasonable for outings (and good for access)
✦ train stop is simply across road at bottom of property; later trains run to Ales (last 9pm), 20mins pickup