A manor house for sale in Saône-et-Loire reflects the department's diversity, from the golden stone of the wine-growing Mâconnais to the rendered rubble stone of the pastoral Charolais and the brick of the Romanesque Brionnais. Around Cluny, Tournus and Charolles, these noble residences have often kept their farm outbuildings, including barns, byres and sometimes a dovecote, inherited from a past built on cattle raising or mixed farming. You will find both a tastefully restored old residence and a manor to renovate sold in its original state, ready and waiting for a full renovation project. Browse the manor houses for sale listed by the department's private owners, agencies and notaries.
This page brings together real price benchmarks for large residences in Saône-et-Loire, the most sought-after areas from the Mâconnais to the Charolais, what sets the local building style apart and the checks specific to a house standing in bocage or wine-growing country. It also touches on how such properties are used today, from full-time family homes to working cattle farms and rural guest accommodation. To approach the purchase of a character property as a whole, read our guide to buying prestige property in France.
DVF land registry data does not identify manor houses as such: the benchmarks below cover sales of houses over 300 m² of living space on 0.05 to 10 ha, above €1,000/m², tracked by our observatory. They frame the market for large residences without describing it entirely: an estate with 30 ha of parkland or a listed monument sold with its farmland falls outside this scope.
In Saône-et-Loire, 61 sales were recorded from 2021 to 2025, with a median price of €512,000*, a floor/ceiling range (P10–P90) of €348,600 to €825,000 and a median of €1,437/m² of living space, for an average of 371 m² of living space and 13,807 m² of land. Across the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the 2025 median stands at €590,000* (43 sales), against €822,000 in France in 2025 (981 sales).
| Scope | Sales | Median price | Floor – ceiling (P10–P90) | €/m² living space (median) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saône-et-Loire (2021-2025) | 61 | €512,000* | €348,600 – €825,000 | 1,437 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (2025) | 43 | €590,000* | €385,000 – €1,004,000 | 1,714 |
| France (2025) | 981 | €822,000 | €428,000 – €3,100,000 | 2,308 |
The breakdown by stratum (coastal, rural tourist, ordinary rural) and the five-year trend are in our observatory of prestige property prices in France (in French). Before making an offer, work out purchase costs and borrowing capacity with our financial tools and calculators.
Source: DVF (DGFiP), transactions from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025, processed by ma-propriete.fr; prices rounded to the nearest €100. * Fewer than 100 sales: read as an indication only.
The wine-growing Mâconnais stands out for its golden stone, limestone with yellow tints that gives the landscape its name, used in large dressed blocks on the oldest houses and rendered on more modest facades. In the pastoral Charolais, manors are typically built of granite or grey limestone rubble, usually rendered, under a flat-tile or small mechanical-tile roof. The Brionnais, further south, mixes brick and stone around simple houses, sometimes attached to a priory or a Romanesque church, with mullioned openings on sixteenth-century facades.
Outbuildings reflect the local economy: a vaulted cellar and wine press in the Mâconnais, extensive barns and byres for Charolais cattle in the Charolais and the Brionnais, a dovecote and bread oven found here and there. Many of these houses remained working farm centres until recently, leaving substantial outbuildings to renovate and sometimes plain interiors behind a distinguished facade, with genuine scope to create extra bedrooms in a converted barn. Current restoration work favours lime renders and oak joinery over modern substitutes.
The Mâconnais, around Mâcon, Tournus and Cluny, holds manors surrounded by vineyards and hills, in a landscape sought after by buyers from Lyon as much as from Paris. The Charolais, around Charolles and Paray-le-Monial, renowned cattle country, offers larger houses set on extensive bocage estates. The Brionnais, in the far south towards Marcigny and Semur-en-Brionnais, keeps a remarkably dense Romanesque heritage around which several discreet manors can still be found dotted about today. To the west, the Autunois, around Autun on the edge of the Morvan, offers more secluded residences bordering forest.
Le Creusot and Mâcon-Loché both have stations served by TGV, with Paris a little over ninety minutes away, and the A6 motorway runs the length of the department from north to south. The wine-growing Mâconnais and the area immediately around Le Creusot remain the most expensive; the Brionnais and the southern Charolais, more rural, offer comparable floor areas at noticeably more moderate levels.
Some houses in the department, particularly in the Romanesque Brionnais and the wine-growing Mâconnais, are listed in the heritage inventory or protected as historic monuments: confirm the exact status, since exterior works on a protected building require the approval of the Architecte des Bâtiments de France. In the Charolais, surrounding farmland may be subject to ongoing agricultural leases, well worth checking before buying a manor sold together with its surrounding land.
On the technical side, have the property checked for dry rot in poorly heated buildings in the damp Charolais, and inspect vaulted cellars in the Mâconnais, sometimes affected by water infiltration. Check the private drainage system, the timber frame of large barns needing repair, and the status, municipal or private, of the rural tracks that frequently serve these properties standing alone in open Charolais countryside.
Manor house listings in Saône-et-Loire are placed by private owners, agencies specialising in character properties and notaries; filter them by price, living space, land and outbuildings, and set an e-mail alert to follow new listings as they appear. To compare with neighbouring Côte-d'Or, Nièvre or Yonne, browse the manor houses for sale in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
