Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Mothe
Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château ; cour d'honneur ; douves (cad. B 216, 217) : inscription par arrêté du 18 juin 1968
- Protection dates
- 1968/06/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.04522, 1.97720
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099013
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1782 map "8 Orleans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction primitive remonte au 16e siècle. Edifice à perron central en pierre appareillée, au fond d'une cour d'honneur entourée de douves qui bordent le château. Ce bâtiment est composé d'un étage de soubassement, d'un rez-de-chaussée comprenant les pièces de réception et d'un premier étage situé sous un toit à la Mansart. La façade nord est flanquée de deux tours rondes, dans celle de l'est se trouve un escalier. Elles sont les témoins d'une construction antérieure. Les pièces du rez-de-chaussée sont ornées de boiseries du 18e siècle. Les cheminées du salon et de la salle à manger, les trumeaux peints sont de la même époque. La grille d'entrée et la balustrade du perron en fer forgé datent du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
The primitive construction dates to the 16th century. Building with a central stone ashlar perron at the end of a courtyard of honour surrounded by moats which border the castle. This building is composed of a basement storey, a ground floor comprising reception rooms and a first storey situated beneath a Mansart roof. The north façade is flanked by two round towers, in the eastern one is found a staircase. They are witnesses to an earlier construction. The ground floor rooms are decorated with 18th century woodwork. The fireplaces of the salon and dining room, the painted wall panels are from the same period. The entrance grille and the balustrade of the perron in wrought iron date from the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.