Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison à tourelle
Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. AH 5) : inscription par arrêté du 11 juillet 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/07/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 13 place du Général-de-Gaulle
- Commune
- Mortagne-au-Perche
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.52071, 0.54571
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110867
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Après la guerre de Cent ans, Mortagne retrouve sa prospérité et s'enrichit. C'est à cette époque, et au siècle suivant, que furent rebâties de nombreuses maisons à tourelles et hauts pignons. La tourelle possède ici un cadran solaire.
English translation
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History
After the Hundred Years War, Mortagne recovered its prosperity and grew wealthy. It was at this time, and in the following century, that many houses with turrets and high gables were rebuilt. The turret here possesses a sundial.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien hôpital Saint-Nicolashôpitalunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Ancien Hôtel de Longueilhôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.