maison de village élevée

07:09 Feb 6, 2020 

I don't think your latest proposal "Village house built into slope, with two additional storeys built over ground floor" is quite there yet — the use of "additional storeys built over' is clunky and not terribly idiomatic; a 'storey' is by definition 'additional'!
I think you should start off from the simplest description: a village house comprising a ground floor and two upper floors [in anything other than a formal document such as this, I would of course drop the first 'floor' to avoid repetition!]
Unless you can check the nature of the house more exactly, I'd be inclined to leave it at that: 'sloping site' etc. amounts to over-interpretation unless you are able to check. BUT you might get away with saying 'a village house whose frontage comprises a ground floor and two upper floors' — which just like the FR, avoids explicitly stating that the rear presents differently.

23:47 Feb 5, 2020 

I did search property agent's sites - in the name of research.

23:18 Feb 5, 2020 

Yes of course, she must keep the address confidential. My only point is that looking at an aerial view on Google map might just help. There is a 3 degree tilt facility. You cannot get a street level view of my house because it's obscured by trees, but a 3D aerial view will tell you its size and how many stories it has as well as showing the detached garage. I also would search local estate agents' websites. It's all called research and it often pays off.

22:01 Feb 5, 2020 

....sounds idyllic!!
In the meantime, my latest attempt is "Village house built into slope, with two additional storeys built over ground floor", which will remain there unless somebody can see a better version.

21:50 Feb 5, 2020 

Quite rightly, Lara doesn't want to post the address here. She has sent it to me and it appears that the street in question is not in Corneilla-de-Conflent, which is a village, not a town, but in a nearby, even smaller, village. It is not possible to view the house on Google Street View. I know the area a bit, as I've visited it a couple of times and it is very hilly (edge of the Pyrenees). Those sort of villages have lots of streets that Google's vehicle can't access. In fact, I live in a town in another part of the Pyrenean foothills and they can't get up my lane either (so I'm fairly protected from Google snooping). To check out the house levels, you'd need to see both the front and the back.

21:01 Feb 5, 2020 

is easily viewable on Google map. It's more or less a hill town and many of the houses are on slopes. I am sure you can locate it

12:19 Feb 5, 2020 

By the way, this is not marketing, its from an usufruct contract.

12:18 Feb 5, 2020 

CORNEILLA-DE-CONFLENT

12:09 Feb 5, 2020 

Do you have any photos?

11:42 Feb 5, 2020 

What about:
Village house built into slope, with two additional storeys built over ground floor, ...

Or if not, do you have any terms you can post?

11:16 Feb 5, 2020 

A "sloping ground floor"?! Really? So, does that mean you can't put a bowl of soup on the table without the cat licking it up from the floor?

10:57 Feb 5, 2020 

"village house with two storeys built above sloping ground floor,..."...?

10:18 Feb 5, 2020 

Completely agree with Tony that you have parsed this incorrectly, and with his explanation. So, the facade on the downhill side has three storeys. Though our local estate agents generally use the term "maison de village" for terraced properties, this site makes it clear that shouldn't be considered a definition: https://www.rachatducredit.com/acheter-une-maison-de-village... .

Avoid "rising slope", as it is meaningless and confusing. All slopes necessarily rise in one direction and fall in the other.

10:00 Feb 5, 2020 

I did think at first that it was regarding "une face", but I don't know. I think you may be right, so do you think something like
"...Lower level two-storey village house built on rising slope,". ...?

01:34 Feb 5, 2020 

I am sure you will have the full address in the contract, so have you tried Google map/street level and/or local estate agents' websites so that you can view the property? I often try this and it works 80% of the time

01:15 Feb 5, 2020 

It seems as if you may be getting confused here because of incorrect parsing.
This has to be read together as 'maison de village' and 'élevée sur une face' — it then becomes clear that this is probably one of those houses on a sloping plot that has more storeys at the front than at the back, say: so what is the ground floor on one side is the basement on the other. I nearly bought a house like this once: from the front, it looked like a chalet-bungalow, but the ground fell away steeply behind, so it had two more storeys that side.
And my old café was even stranger: on the front, it had a ground floor (shop part), then two storeys above; but it was set against a solid rock cliff-face, and only the second floor was actually open to 'ground level' at the back.
It is the 'sur une face' that gives this clue...
Note too that although SOME village houses may be 'terraced' (i.e. attached to other buildings on both sides), some may equally well be totally detached; without further information, therefore, it's not safe to jump to any conclusions about that aspect: all one can say for certainty is that it is a house in a village!