Château des Modières

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château des Modières, in Villebret in the Allier department, occupies the site of a former seigneurial fief mentioned as early as the 12th century, dependent on the castellany of Murat and then known as "Maudières". It belonged successively to several families, including the de la Faye family in the 13th century, then the Chaslus, Verneix and Montais families in the 15th and 16th centuries, before passing into the hands of the Pérot d'Estivareilles family at the end of the 17th century, and then to the de la Brosse family through marriage in 1785. The present château combines a central building flanked by two square turrets, a 17th-century residence (logis), a central porch dating from 1784 and a 19th-century wing with a round tower, added after the Michel family acquired the estate in 1848 and enlarged it, notably in 1884. The property also retains a remarkable park, identified as such in 1993 and documented in the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage (reference IA03000191), laid out between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Privately owned, the château is not open to visitors but can be seen from the road.