Château de Cotteuges

English translation

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History

The old castle was a 13th-century construction flanked by four round towers, of which two have now disappeared and only the north-east one survives intact. The main dwelling itself, although degraded by its agricultural use in the 19th century and disparate openings, has retained a barrel-vaulted hall lit by penetrating openings. Of the former outer curtain walls subsists also a gateway tower forming a covered passage at ground level and fitted with an overhanging staircase and Gothic openings with sculptured framing. The new castle, raised in the 15th century as a pleasure residence, comprised a main dwelling with a turret which was enlarged by three bays and a chapel in the 18th century, before undergoing a new extension around 1830. This building has retained interior arrangements from different periods including a spiral staircase of the 15th century and a set of rooms furnished with wainscoting, fireplaces and compartmented parquet floors. The formal French garden has disappeared, but the enclosure wall, the structure used as latrines and the trees planted in the English manner in 1862 remain.