Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir des Touches
Dorceau, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le colombier du manoir, en totalité (cad. ZP 6) : inscription par arrêté du 26 avril 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/04/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir, colombier
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Les Touches
- Commune
- Dorceau
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.41960, 0.82625
- Mérimée reference
- PA61000036
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid 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 "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le manoir possède un colombier percheron du 16e siècle, sans doute couronné d'un lanternon en bois au 18e siècle. L'ouvrage a conservé l'ensemble de ses éléments, hormis l'échelle tournante.
English translation
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History
The manor possesses a 16th-century Percheron dovecote, probably crowned with a timber lantern in the 18th century. The structure has retained all its elements, except for the rotating ladder.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Laurentéglise1 mi
- Château de Villeraychâteau2 mi
- Château de Voréchâteau2 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.