Château de Launaguet

English translation

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History

Castle built in 1845 by architect Auguste Virebent, on the ruins of a manor burned in 1805, and representative of Toulouse eclecticism in the 19th century. It consists of a rectangular building with, at the angles, overhanging turrets. Two additional turrets delimit, on the two main façades, a central main dwelling. The framing of the windows and doors, the balconies, the plinths of the turrets received decoration of moulded terracotta from flamboyant Gothic elements. At each end, the two ground floor windows of the north façade are painted in trompe-l'oeil. The openings of the first floor open above pierced Gothic balustrades. The five central windows are surmounted by a gable and pinnacles. All interior decoration was designed by Auguste Virebent (neo-Gothic room, dining room featuring a monumental dresser with Renaissance term pilasters in painted terracotta; alcove bedroom with Baroque flower garlands and castings of the metopes of the portal of the Hôtel du Vieux Raisin in Toulouse; embossed paper with plant motifs; Louis XV woodwork...). The outbuildings are remnants of the earlier castle.