Château du Mazeau

English translation

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History

The castle is a building of the 16th century which has retained, inside and outside, its original character. Only the openings of the right bay of the ground floor of the main façade, oriented to the south, have been altered. Of rectangular plan, the building presents corner turrets at the four angles. The entrance door of the main façade is flanked by pilasters whose upper part is decorated with lozenges. The lintel bears an escutcheon flanked by volutes. The door is surmounted by an impost and an entablature flanked by pilasters. The interior consists, on each floor, of a large hall equipped with a monumental fireplace. The 17th-century dovecot is a square building intended, in addition to this function, for other uses (flour mill on the ground floor; bread oven on the first floor). A hydraulic system was created at the same time as the mill to regulate its flow and drain the castle plot of all water from the surrounding springs. This dovecot presents itself as a unicum, corresponding to a very personal conception of the representation of seigneurial rights.