En un regard
Le château en bref
The Logis de Cherconnay, in the commune of Longré in Charente, overlooks the hamlet of Le Vivier (formerly Vivier-Estrain). This medieval manor house, built in the 14th and 15th centuries, consists of a long, single-storey rectangular building under a gabled roof, lit by mullioned and transomed windows; a round tower with a pepper-pot roof, pierced with arrow slits, flanks the north façade. Owned by the Corgnol family and then, from 1654, by the Brumeaud de Moulinneuf family, it passed by marriage in 1766 to the Duge de Bernonville family, who kept it until 1928. Listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 1991, the building has undergone sympathetic restoration work.