Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Plaisnaud
Ambernac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le logis, les communs, la cour ainsi que la grange, en totalité (cad. C 95, 101) : inscription par arrêté du 26 octobre 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/10/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1777
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Ambernac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.98683, 0.57276
- Mérimée reference
- PA16000032
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "68 Charroux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château mentionné au 16e siècle. L'année 1777 est sculptée sur l'arc d'entrée du logis. L'édifice se compose d'un logis principal précédé d'une cour délimitée par des dépendances et un mur. Le logis est une construction rectangulaire à un étage carré et un étage de comble, couvert d'un toit à longs pans brisés et croupes. A l'intérieur, un escalier tournant à jour, à balustres de bois, dessert les deux étages. Au rez-de-chaussée se trouvent la salle-à-manger, la cuisine et le salon. Les chambres occupent les étages, l'une d'elles conservant des décors sculptés au-dessus de la porte, de l'alcôve et de la cheminée. L'édifice est flanqué de deux tours en diagonale, surmontées de toits coniques. La tour ouest serait un vestige d'une construction du 16e siècle. La tour est date du 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Castle mentioned in the 16th century. The year 1777 is carved on the entrance arch of the main dwelling. The building consists of a main dwelling preceded by a courtyard bounded by outbuildings and a wall. The dwelling is a rectangular construction with one square storey and a roof space storey, covered with a roof with long broken slopes and hips. Inside, a spiral staircase with open well and wooden balusters serves the two storeys. On the ground floor are the dining room, kitchen and drawing room. The bedrooms occupy the upper storeys, one of them retaining carved decorations above the door, the alcove and the fireplace. The building is flanked by two towers set diagonally, topped with conical roofs. The west tower would be a vestige of a 16th-century construction. The east tower dates from the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.