Lahitte Castle

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Le château en bref

In Moncrabeau, on the borders of Lot-et-Garonne and Gers, Lahitte Castle – formerly known as the château de Commun – is a late eighteenth-century residence at the centre of an agricultural estate. The lands belonged to the Laverny family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the present main building was erected around 1780, to plans by the architect Louis Victor according to the Mérimée record. The château consists of a rectangular central block flanked by two wings set at right angles. A central projecting bay, topped by a triangular pediment, marks the entrance. The interior retains two wrought-iron staircases, one from the eighteenth century and the other from the nineteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a large part of the estate was planted with vines, and outbuildings were erected between 1808 and 1842, including timber-framed and brick buildings and a hexagonal dovecote supported by six stone piers. The estate now belongs to an association and remains a wine-producing property.