Around the House

There is a small charcoal barbecue, and there will probably be some charcoal and lighters too. We ask our guests to use whatever consumables they find in the house (salt, sugar, charcoal, detergent, whatever), and to replace anything that they use up so that there are always all the essentials when other guests arrive.

There is garden furniture (chairs and tables) which you can use pretty well anywhere in the garden: sit under the walnut tree, move up into the orchard for shade, or use it on the terrace in the evening.

Just across the road (well, it's more a country lane) there is parking for two cars.

If you’d like to see what the house looks like from the air, have a look at two photos taken by Hans Barnhoorn in 2011, he took a trip in a light aircraft and flew over La Grange.

The Well


the well at Lavignon
Next to the parking spot, just across the road from La Grange, there is a little stone house. It's actually a well which I use in the summer to water the garden. It's 85cms in diameter and about 7m deep. A couple of years ago the water level was falling, it dropped 2m in four years, although now it seems to be recovering slowly.

The Wine Cellar

There's a tempting little brown (locked!) door at the edge of the lawn. That's our wine cellar, built relatively recently by a previous owner, it's just a concrete box maybe 3m square buried under the hill behind it. It is guarded by a toad which has been there since we can remember - whenever we go in he is just inside the door barring the way to trespassers!