Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir de la Roche-de-Gennes
Vou, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et toitures (cad. ZL 29) : inscription par arrêté du 4 juillet 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/07/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Vou
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.07285, 0.84762
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098298
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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).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Châtellenie qui relevait du château de Loches, érigée en vicomté en 1569. L'édifice présente un haut bâtiment rectangulaire dont les pignons à forte pente sont couronnés d'un rondelis de pierre. Au centre de la façade nord se trouve une tour polygonale d'escalier, avec sa porte gothique.
English translation
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History
Castellany which was under the authority of the castle of Loches, erected into a viscounty in 1569. The edifice presents a tall rectangular building whose steeply pitched gables are crowned with a stone circular moulding. At the centre of the north façade is found a polygonal staircase tower, with its Gothic door.
Nearby in the register
- Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre-es-Lienséglise1 mi
- Château du Vergerchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Maison du 15e siècle, dite de Saint-Louismaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.