Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ferme dite de l'Espinas
Montselgues, Ardèche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Ferme dite de l'Espinas (cad. AS 63) : classement par arrêté du 24 octobre 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/10/24 : classé MH
- Type
- ferme
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1651
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Hameau de l'Espinas
- Commune
- Montselgues
- Département
- Ardèche
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.48775, 4.02407
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116737
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice à double rez-de-chaussée portant une mention de 1651, construit en granit et en grès, et rassemblant tous les traits d'une ferme fortifiée. Le bâtiment a un plan en U comprenant habitations, étables et grange attenantes autour d'une cour dallée. Présence d'une cachette de très grande dimension dans une voûte creuse de l'une des étables, sans doute construite au cours des guerres de Religion.
English translation
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History
Building with double ground floor bearing a mention of 1651, constructed in granite and sandstone, and gathering all the traits of a fortified farmhouse. The building has an L-shaped plan comprising dwellings, stables and barn attached around a paved courtyard. Presence of a very large hiding place in a hollow vault of one of the stables, probably built during the Wars of Religion.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.