Château de Moncley, Neoclassical castle in Moncley, France

The Château de Moncley is a neoclassical building erected between 1778 and 1790, with a main house and outbuildings arranged in a U-shape around a terraced cour d'honneur. The courtyard facade has four columns evoking a Greek temple, while the terrace side is flanked by two towers and centred on a rotunda. A round stone tower with a conical roof and a lower wing with an arched doorway stand to the left, and a red-tiled outbuilding extends to the far left.

Built between 1778 and 1790 by the architect Claude Joseph Alexandre Bertrand, a pupil of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, the château was commissioned by the Marquis François Terrier de Santans, first president of the Parlement de Besançon. It rose beside an old feudal fortress, whose remains survive in the cellars of the parterre to the east. The family has owned it since construction, and the buildings were classified as monuments historiques in 1944 and again in 2005.

The château keeps a set of wallpapers hung between 1785 and 1787, still in place in the Louis XVI rooms, along with period furniture and paintings. The vestibule is Italian-style, with columns. The south wing of the outbuildings preserves a kitchen with ribbed vaulting, next to the stables and the riding school.

The château lies about 15 km north-west of Besançon, in the Doubs department, partly on the land of Émagny. It is open to visitors from May to October. The house and outbuildings form a U around a terraced cour d'honneur, with the farm buildings below the north wing and the kitchen, stables and manège in the south wing.

The south wing of the outbuildings keeps a kitchen with ribbed vaulting; beside it stand the stables and the riding school (manège). Below the north wing, the farm consists of two parallel buildings that enclose the orchard and kitchen garden. The estate also holds the remains of an older feudal fortress, in the cellars of the parterre to the east.