Château de Ferrassou
589 chemin de Ferrassou, 47140 Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Built on the banks of the Lot, the castle dates from the 15th, 16th and 19th centuries.
Designated as "hostal and tor" in the oldest deed preserved in the archives, it belonged to the Lustrac family until 1608 and was directly paid by the king. The main building is made up of a main building, built on two levels above a partially buried brick vaulted room, which the renovation company has uncovered. It has two towers, one from the Middle Ages, the other from the Renaissance, classified as historical monuments.
The round tower was decapitated during the Revolution. This tower houses a square room per floor and small rooms in the thickness of certain walls to the west and southeast. Each of its openings received a Renaissance decor.
On the west facade, the square tower houses a spiral staircase from the Gothic period, surmounted by a ribbed room. The one-block steps each develop around a twisted central core which ends in a palm tree vault whose arches fall on lamp bases.
The facades and the interior layout of the main building, reorganized in 1820, like the destruction of the works of the old closed courtyard, give it its current appearance of a neo-classical house in a green setting with hundred-year-old trees.
The long outbuilding, built in the 16th century, has two towers at each end; it was remodeled in the 19th or early 20th century.
Tags
Monument historique & Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir
©Jacques Mossot
