Cadaujac · Gironde
The park and follies of Malleret
Between 1860 and 1869 the shipbuilder and deputy Armand Coureau built the eclectic château of Malleret at Cadaujac and laid out its park, whose follies — a belvedere, a Hispano-Moorish water tower, a metal greenhouse and a lion-headed basin — survive.
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From the source
Château de Malleret is a château at Cadaujac, Gironde, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 19th century. 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
An older building stood on the site. The record describes the house, a main floor over a service basement with three pavilions and a two-flight converging stair, and lists what the grounds keep: a chai and a vat house, a belvedere with terrace, a Hispano-Moorish water tower, a keeper’s house, a metal greenhouse closed on one side by a wall with neo-classical decoration, and a basin with a lion-headed bowl. The 1989 listing covers the gate with its railing, the façades of château, outbuildings, round chai and keeper’s house, the follies and the garden with its basins.
Recommendation
Come for the greenhouse: a nineteenth-century iron pavilion standing on its own in the park.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00083872 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cadaujac%20Malleret%201.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0
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