Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite Logis des Foucault
Sepvret, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Maison dite Logis des Foucault : inscription par arrêté du 15 décembre 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/12/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sepvret
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.30765, -0.06752
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101374
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The County of Pictavia. Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le corps de logis est agrémenté d'une tourelle polygonale comprenant un escalier. Sur les trois fenêtres du milieu du 16e siècle, une seule est encore richement décorée. A l'intérieur, le rez-de-chaussée conserve une cheminée du 15e siècle. Au premier étage, cheminées Renaissance et d'époque Louis XIII.
English translation
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History
The main dwelling is embellished with a polygonal turret comprising a staircase. Of the three windows from the middle of the 16th century, only one is still richly decorated. Inside, the ground floor retains a fireplace from the 15th century. On the first floor, Renaissance fireplaces and fireplaces from the Louis XIII period.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.