Gardens
'Le Manoir des Gouttes' is surrounded by truly lovely private mature gardens (approx 5000 sq mt), and when historically, they were open to the public, it attracted a ‘Jardin de France’ award.
Access to the garden is via the raised sun terrace, which leads from the main hallway and down a flight of stone stairs, or the grounds can be accessed by a paved pathway between the Manor house and Bakery.
The extensive grounds are laid out in terrace form, accessed by large stone stairways and contain many fine specimen flowering shrubs and trees, as well as beds of lavender. There are also two large ornate sunken ponds, bamboo grove, and the fruit & rose garden grows peaches, apricots, apples, plums, pears and of course grapes.
A lovely feature of the grounds is a 200 year old yew arbour, providing welcome shade on hot sunny days.
Wells
There is an historic stone well within the rose garden, and also a recent well within the grounds providing some 30ft deep of crystal clear spring water for gardening and other purposes when needed.
Swimming Pool
Within the swimming pool garden, one finds a large 7.6m circular swimming pool and equipment store. The swimming pool garden is fully child proof and surrounded by box fencing.