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The Château de Lavaud-Promis, also known as the Château de Lavaud Promis, stands at the locality of Lavaud Promis, in the commune of La Villetelle (Creuse). Built in the 13th century around a square keep, a curtain wall and a round tower, it was transformed in the 15th century into a more comfortable dwelling with the addition of a feudal residence (logis), stables and a gateway. In the second half of the 17th century, the estate belonged to Louis de Rubin and then to Annet-Martin du Theilloux de Lavaud-Promis, under whom the south-west circular tower and the present main residential block were built. Having fallen into poor condition around 1880, it underwent various alterations to the keep's roof at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, before a complete restoration carried out between 1950 and 1975. The square keep, more than twenty metres high and with three storeys, still dominates the ensemble, which also retains a chapel within the enclosure and a remarkable 17th-century gateway.