Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Horts
Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. B 910) : inscription par arrêté du 12 mai 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/05/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Thiers
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.86362, 3.54886
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092429
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petit manoir du 14e siècle appartenant à un ensemble de résidences secondaires édifiées au 16e siècle par des notables thiernois. L'édifice présente une masse carrée organisée autour d'une cour aujourd'hui couverte d'une verrière, flanquée de quatre tours d'angles circulaires. La façade nord est ornée d'un crénelage et d'une échauguette.
English translation
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History
Small manor house of the 14th century belonging to a group of secondary residences built in the 16th century by notable residents of Thiern. The building presents a square mass organized around a courtyard today covered with a glass roof, flanked by four circular corner towers. The north façade is ornamented with crenellations and a bartisan.
Nearby in the register
- Château des Champschâteauunder 1 mi
- Monument aux mortsmonument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Pont de Seychallespontunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.