Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison forte des Farguettes
Crespinet, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La maison forte en totalité (cad. AH 96 à 98) : inscription par arrêté du 19 juillet 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/07/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison forte
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Crespinet
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.94705, 2.30706
- Mérimée reference
- PA81000027
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 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Maison forte représentative d'une architecture intermédiaire entre la maison et le château, du type de la maison forte à cour fermée. Elle est mentionnée au 14e siècle. L'édifice à cour fermée est doté d'un portail surmonté d'une bretèche. La tour d'escalier en vis s'ouvre par un portail sculpté Renaissance. L'essentiel des dispositions d'origine est conservé. Un important souterrain refuge se développe sous une partie de la maison forte.
English translation
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History
Fortified house representing an intermediate form of architecture between a house and a château, of the type of the enclosed-courtyard fortified house. It is mentioned in the 14th century. The enclosed-courtyard building is equipped with a gateway surmounted by a bretèche. The spiral staircase tower opens through a Renaissance carved portal. The essential original layout is preserved. An extensive refuge underground passage develops beneath part of the fortified house.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.