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At the beginning of the 15th century, the Château des Loges, in La Chapelle-Bâton (Deux-Sèvres), belonged to the Janvre family, who kept it until the middle of the 16th century. Jacques d'Escarts took possession of it in 1583, before Laurent Chebrou acquired the estate in 1693; the Chebrou family has owned it ever since, several of its members having held important political offices. The old building, dating from the 14th–15th centuries, retains two cylindrical defensive towers with conical roofs; at the end of the 17th century its south façade was remodelled in the classical style with a projecting monumental entrance topped by a pediment, then complemented by perpendicular wings and pavilions with mansard roofs, and by service buildings in 1820. The park includes avenues of oaks planted in 1780 and of sycamores planted in 1825, a dovecote with 1,500 nesting holes, a walled kitchen garden, a fountain, a wash house and a chapel. Listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 15 October 2007, the château, which is privately owned, is not open to visitors, but its garden is open to the public.