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The manor house of the Roques, located on a hilltop overlooking the Lot Valley at Trentels, dates mainly from the late 15th and 16th centuries. Its structure combines a limestone stone house with a raised ground floor and a full floor, complemented by a pan-wood gallery and a brick turret. The sling windows, the triangular pediment lodge and the scauguette bear witness to its Renaissance style, while elements such as cross-sections suggest an older origin.

The castle was probably built for the Boissière family, with Jean de la Boissière, lord of La Roque, mentioned between 1517 and 1526. Redesigns in the 17th century, such as the addition of the turret and lodge, could be linked to the Delard family, with J. de Lart cited in 1696. In the 18th century, changes in segmentary arc were made, perhaps for the Dangeros family, of which Étienne Dangeros, knight of Castelgailhard, lived there in 1734.

The whole, including the mansion and its outbuildings, appears on the burrows of the end of the Ancien Régime and on the cadastral of 1830. Partly inscribed in the Historical Monuments in 1982 for its facades, roofs and a fireplace, it preserves traces of its multiple transformations throughout the centuries.

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