Ancien château

English translation

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History

The fief was held from the barony of Vernou. The building was to serve as a fortified house, as evidenced by certain defences and moats which surround it. The rectangular construction is largely of the 15th century, modified in the 16th in a spirit of strengthening the defence. The interior consists of vast halls lit on two faces, which retained their period small floor tiles and timber beaming. The wooden staircase with balusters is of square plan. The front façade onto the courtyard underwent transformations over the centuries. The Gothic entrance door was blocked up. A large monumental door was pierced beside it, at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century. The windows also took on 17th-century style, with their wooden mullions of rounded section, the crossing of which in the middle is a prominent square cabochon. They still retain their period joinery, as well as their small interior stays. Only a narrow reblocked window, situated above the original door, dates from the Renaissance and is decorated with flat pilasters with bases and capitals. The ensemble is built over a barrel-vaulted cellar.