Felletin · Creuse
The eighteenth-century French garden of Arfeuille
South of the château of Arfeuille, near Felletin, an eighteenth-century garden à la française is enclosed between two long ranges of outbuildings.
From the source
Château d'Arfeuille is a château at Felletin, Creuse, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 15th, 18th and 19th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record notes that a French-style garden was laid out to the south in the eighteenth century, closed off by vast rectangular dependencies to the east and west. The château itself is older: a keep and a central block rebuilt after 1481, when Pierre de Bourbon allowed Antoine d’Arfeuille to dig moats and build a drawbridge; a square tower was added around 1770, the keep and tower were lowered in the early nineteenth century, and the dovecote became a chapel at its end. The 2011 listing covers the façades and roofs of the house and dependencies, the keep, the enclosure and retaining walls and the dovecote-chapel.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00100065 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20d%27Arfeuille.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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