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Manoir de la Roche-Musset

Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures du manoir, à l'exception du bâtiment moderne ajouté à la façade Ouest ; porte et lucarne des communs ; tourelles Sud-Ouest et Sud-Est (cad. AD 40, 41) : inscription par arrêté du 18 mars 1947
Protection dates
1947/03/18 : inscrit MH
Type
manoir
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 2e moitié 16e siècle, 2e quart 18e siècle
Dates
1744
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
30 rue de la Roche
Commune
Cinq-Mars-la-Pile
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.34032, 0.43547
Mérimée reference
PA00097701

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Ce manoir comprenait au 15e siècle un bâtiment rectangulaire élevé d'un rez-de-chaussée, d'un étage et d'un comble. Il fut transformé à la fin du 16e siècle et augmenté, côté nord, d'un bâtiment de même élévation mais plus profond. Aux angles sud-est et sud-ouest étaient montées deux tourelles de défense, avec meurtrières, et dont les deux tiers supérieurs sont en encorbellement. Tous les percements furent alors refaits. Deux tours carrées de défense, avec meurtrières, furent élevées aux angles sud-est et sud-ouest de la cour. Le rocher qui domine au nord est creusé de caves aménagées en servitudes. Un bâtiment de communs lui est perpendicualire, et fut ajouté en 1644. Un bâtiment moderne a été adossé à la façade ouest du monoir.

English translation

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This manor comprised in the 15th century a rectangular building raised of a ground floor, a first floor and a roof space. It was transformed at the end of the 16th century and enlarged, on the north side, by a building of the same elevation but deeper. At the south-east and south-west angles were mounted two defensive turrets, with loopholes, with their upper two-thirds corbelled out. All the openings were then remade. Two square towers of defence, with loopholes, were raised at the south-east and south-west angles of the courtyard. The rock which dominates to the north is carved with cellars arranged as service areas. A building of outbuildings is perpendicular to it, and was added in 1644. A modern building was set against the west facade of the manor.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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