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Le château en bref
Rue de Cormes, in Saint-Cyr-en-Val, south of Orléans on the edge of the Sologne region, the Château de Cormes is an early Renaissance manor house built on the site of a medieval fortified house. Single-storeyed beneath a tall slate roof, it is surrounded by moats forming a semicircle. The façade is articulated by pilasters with Corinthian capitals, and two projecting string courses decorated with lozenges divide the levels; the round-arched doorways are surmounted by triangular pediments. On the forecourt side, two outbuilding pavilions and two low square towers housing dovecotes are arranged symmetrically on either side of the drive. At the beginning of the 20th century, a flat-roofed building was added against the rear façade; its nine Gothic openings come from the demolished Hôtel-Dieu of Orléans. The façades and roofs, the dovecotes and the moats have been listed as historic monuments since 1971. Privately owned.