Boisverdun Château

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In Tombebœuf, on the northern slopes of the Lot-et-Garonne, Boisverdun Château is a July Monarchy residence, built on an estate that had probably previously carried a medieval noble residence. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the estate passed successively to the families de Digeon and d'Estutt de Solminiac. Between 1838 and 1843, Vicomte Albert de Richemont, a deputy and mayor, had the present house built. He chose a Palladian-inspired design, then fashionable in the South-West: a symmetrical U-shaped plan, organised around a central block of one storey with seven bays, flanked by two lower wings. The entrance is marked by a porch supported by four Tuscan columns, reached by a horseshoe staircase, and the hipped roofs are covered with pantiles, in keeping with regional custom. The building, listed in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, remains a privately owned property.