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Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1800
1900
2000
1785
First mentioned garden
First mentioned garden 1785 (≈ 1785)
Garden existing before the current park.
1789
Date of bell
Date of bell 1789 (≈ 1789)
Cloche du manoir engraved this year.
avant 1820
Construction of the mansion
Construction of the mansion avant 1820 (≈ 1820)
Built at the edge of the 18th to 19th centuries.
1820
Establishment of the park
Establishment of the park 1820 (≈ 1820)
Landscaping dated.
1861
Adding dependencies
Adding dependencies 1861 (≈ 1861)
Guard house and greenhouse built.
1976
First protection
First protection 1976 (≈ 1976)
Registration of facades and lounges.
2006
Park protection
Park protection 2006 (≈ 2006)
Park ranking and vegetable garden.
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui Aujourd'hui (≈ 2025)
Position de référence.
Heritage classified
Fronts and roofs; the pink living room and the blue living room with their decor (cad. A 267): entry by order of 2 November 1976 - The park of the castle, as well as its vegetable garden located at the place called "the Klap-Houck", at the corner of the national road 16 (Dunkerque - Paris) and the national road 28 (Bergues - Saint-Omer) (cad. A 264, 266, 1248): inscription by order of 2 May 2006
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Origin and history
Socx Castle is a building of the first half of the 19th century, located in the municipality of Socx (North). The manor house, built before 1820 at the hinge of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, maintains a bell dating from 1789, bearing an earlier origin. Its park, built in 1820, replaces a garden mentioned in 1785, reflecting the evolution of landscape tastes under the Empire and the Restoration.
The basement of the castle has a brick segmental cradle vault, characteristic of the construction techniques of the period. A guard house and a greenhouse were added around 1861, marking an extension phase of the estate. The monument, partially protected, includes facades, roofs, as well as two lounges (pink and blue) registered in 1976, while the park and its vegetable garden were classified in 2006.
The castle illustrates 19th-century bourgeois residential architecture in the Hauts-de-France, where rural properties often combined manor houses, outbuildings and pleasant gardens. Its history reflects the social and economic transformations of the region, between aristocratic heritage and adaptation to the new ways of life of the industrial era.
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