Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Roujoux
Fresnes, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château, sa plate-forme et ses douves, en totalité (cad. C 216, 895, lieudit Roujoux) : inscription par arrêté du 5 mars 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/03/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Fresnes
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.43380, 1.40094
- Mérimée reference
- PA41000043
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château est connu à partir de 1450. Au 16e siècle, ajout de l'aile sud. Au 17e siècle, corps de logis central, tour ronde, escalier rampe sur rampe, le logis est raccourci, un porche avec pont-levis élevés. A la fin du 19e siècle, d'importants travaux sont réalisés après une période d'abandon, effaçant une partie de la distribution du 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
The castle is known from 1450. In the 16th century, addition of the south wing. In the 17th century, central dwelling house, round tower, ramp-on-ramp staircase, the dwelling is shortened, a porch with drawbridges erected. At the end of the 19th century, important works were carried out after a period of abandonment, erasing part of the distribution of the 16th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.