Escalans · Landes
The former parterre of Château de Caumale
A Gascon-looking house of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century at Escalans, Caumale is listed with its enclosure, the pillars of its old gates and its former parterre in its entirety.
From the source
Château de Caumale is a château at Escalans, Landes, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 16th, 17th 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 describes a square block with four corner towers and a stair tower, altered inside in the nineteenth century, whose silhouette recalls the Gascon castles of the Middle Ages, set at the centre of an enclosure against which farm buildings lean. The 2002 listing names the fortified house, the enclosure and the pillars of the old gateways, including those opening onto the departmental road, and 'the former parterre in its entirety'. The parterre is not described further, but its protection as a whole tells us it was read as the garden of the house.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA40000041 — 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%20de%20Caumale.JPG — CC BY-SA 3.0
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