Renovated farm
8.5 Rooms
8.5 Rooms
300 m²
300 m²
CHF 2,400,000.-
CHF 8,000.-/sqm
CH, 2615 Sonvilier
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Magnificent renovated farmhouse. Part of watchmaking history
IN 1985, THIS RESTORED OLD FARMHOUSE WON THE NEUCHÂTELOIS HEIMATSCHUTZ PRIZE. The PAST IN THE PRESENT When architecture meets the contemporary past, or how to bridge three and a half centuries of history. Between the original "belle chambre" and the modern living room installed in the former stable, there's just a simple wooden door. And a leap of three hundred and fifty years. But not the slightest shock: just life going on, in the gentle rolling hills of this northern tip of the Val-de-Ruz. It's a Jura farmhouse, like a few that still remain in the region. Built in 1652, it had belonged throughout the last century to the same family of modest farmers, the Scheideggers. When the father died in the 1960s, the mother and daughter continued to live there as they had in the previous century, with only electricity and water from the cistern. The tiny living quarters consisted of the hearth (the kitchen), the "belle chambre", which was only entered on special occasions, and a small room...














