Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Betplan, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. C 74) : inscription par arrêté du 3 mars 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/03/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Betplan
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.41450, 0.19832
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094741
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château du début du 17e siècle présentant un corps de logis rectangulaire flanqué de quatre tours carrées, le tout surmonté de combles d'ardoises. La façade principale, précédée sur toute la longueur d'une terrasse avec balustrade, présente un imposant et lourd portail à bossages avec deux pilastres doriques portant un entablement surmonté d'un fronton coupé demi-circulaire. Les fenêtres possédaient des meneaux de bois.
English translation
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History
Castle of the early 17th century presenting a rectangular main dwelling flanked by four square towers, all surmounted by slate roof spaces. The main facade, preceded along its entire length by a terrace with balustrade, presents an imposing and heavy bossed portal with two Doric pilasters carrying an entablature surmounted by a semi-circular broken pediment. The windows possessed wood mullions.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.