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The Château de Villemoleix, in Chambon-sur-Voueize (Creuse), is a seigneurial estate attested in the 15th century under the Ancien Régime. The main residential building, rising four levels with substantial attics, is served by a staircase housed in a square crenellated tower and is surrounded on three-quarters of its perimeter by a small pond. Its 15th-century dovecote, altered several times, stands 5.5 metres high with a diameter of 8.5 metres and retains 445 stone nesting holes arranged diagonally; its door is decorated with fleurs-de-lis and carved human and animal heads. The dovecote has been listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 4 October 2010. The estate, located at the end of the runway of the local airfield, holds the wreck of a prototype Hurel-Dubois HD-321 aircraft (1953), one of only two ever built, used for special missions dropping secret agents behind the Iron Curtain, which crashed on site in 1960.