Château de Gourdan

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Château de Gourdan is located in the commune of Saint-Clair, in the Ardèche, about 4 km from Annonay. Built from 1777 for the Vogüé family, it replaced an earlier building that had belonged to the du Peloux family since the 14th century and passed to the Vogüés in 1605 through the marriage of Marguerite du Peloux. Major works were undertaken by Pierre de Vogüé from 1751, continued and completed around 1780 by Félix de Vogüé. The château has an L-shaped plan with two wings, in a style inspired by 18th-century Provençal bastides. The estate includes a French formal parterre, an orangery built in 1832 (45 x 8 metres), a castle chapel and a wine cellar. In 1869, Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé sold the property to industrialists from Annonay. The château is now privately owned. The façades and roofs of the château and of the North tower, as well as the orangery, the South parterre and the gardens, were listed as historic monuments by decree of 30 August 1967. Today the estate hosts receptions in the stables and offers rural holiday cottages in the Tour Carrée wing.