Restes du logis de Sigogne

English translation

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History

A first lord is attested with certainty in 1463. After the Revolution, the building is sold as national property and divided into 25 lots. It still showed important vestiges of the 13th and 14th centuries during the 20th century. It was an ensemble of square or rectangular plan of which there remains only the tower which surmounted the entrance and underground rooms. This postern would have been fitted out in the 15th century. On each side of this entrance, a rampart ended at a cylindrical corner tower. In the second half of the 18th century presumably, residential buildings were constructed around the postern. They were demolished in the second half of the 20th century. The postern tower is pierced at its base by a passage vaulted in broken barrel vault. It is flanked by a hexagonal turret containing a spiral staircase accessed from the west, courtyard side, by a door with rectangular opening surmounted by a half-round arch tympanum where appear three mutilated coats of arms.