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Origin and history

The Bosc-Roger fief, attested since the 12th century, was organized around a lowyard whose partial route remains today. This site included a parish church, an early 16th-century wooden manor house with an angle turret, and a dovecote. These buildings, transformed into agricultural outbuildings in the 19th century, illustrate the typical organisation of a medieval seigneurial estate. Their current state reflects both their former residential function and their subsequent adaptation to agricultural needs.

Between 1786 and 1789, the Marquis de Monthiers built, outside the original castral enclosure, a new neo-classical castle in brick and stone. This building, whose interior decorations (lambria, fireplaces, alcoves) are partially preserved, marks an architectural break with the medieval mansion. The ensemble, classified as a Historical Monument in 2003, symbolizes the transition between a feudal site and an aristocratic residence of the Enlightenment, although some elements are now threatened by a lack of maintenance since the 1990s.

The castral site, protected in its entirety, also includes the remains of the old castle, church, dovecote and original fence walls. These elements materialize almost seven centuries of history, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, offering a rare example of continuous evolution of a Norman seigneurial domain. The presence of a vegetable garden dedicated to the new castle also underlines the importance of landscape developments in the aristocratic residences of the end of the Old Regime.

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