Château de Borie-Petit

English translation

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History

The dwelling was originally a borie and belonged to the seigniory of Champcevinel, to the chapter of Périgueux cathedral. The building is surrounded by an enclosure whose angles are reinforced to the east by square corner turrets, crowned with pyramids, positioned in projection on machicolations. Gun ports are provided in their walls. At the centre of the east wall, a small castle defends the entrance to the inner courtyard. A porch, beside which stands a small guardhouse, supports on the upper level a room built in corbels on machicolations. Beyond this porch vaulted in bricks with stone bonding, lies the main dwelling, restored in the 19th century. Rectangular in form, it is flanked to the east by two large circular towers with machicolations, with sloped bases and topped with pepperbox roofs, and to the west strengthened by two modern corner turrets. To the west, in the middle of the meadow, stands a circular dovecote, dated 1661. In the gardens, to the south, a small sepulchral chapel, of barlong plan, was built in the 19th century. The entrance is made under a triangular pediment resting on two Gallo-Roman columns which would appear to come from Vésone.