Champagne-et-Fontaine · Dordogne
The French garden, water stair and park of Clauzuroux
Clauzuroux, one of the finest eighteenth-century Périgord manors, turns its façades to the Pude across a terrace with Louis XIV balusters; its garden and park, laid out with the house, its mill, its water stair and its dovecote were listed in 2002.
From the source
Domaine du château de Clauzuroux (également sur communes de La Chapelle-Grésignac et Cherval) is a château at Champagne-et-Fontaine, Dordogne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 17th and 18th 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 closed court with an early-seventeenth-century gate and two small round corner towers, farm buildings whose dormers are crowned with maces, and a house under a Mansart roof between two taller pavilions, with a roofed well. The layouts of the garden and the park are contemporary with the house. A mill that keeps its mechanism and a water stair, the record says, bear witness to the domain’s utilitarian and pleasure vocations. The château was listed in 1947; in 2002 the listing was extended to the garden, the park, the mill with its leat, the water stair, the dovecote and the dependencies, spread over three communes — the jardin à la française and the water stair lying on the Cherval side.
Recommendation
A water stair beside a working mill: the same stream serves the miller and the garden.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00082463 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Champagne-et-Fontaine%20Clauzuroux%20ch%C3%A2teau%20%281%29.JPG — CC BY-SA 3.0
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