Château de la Morinerie, Protected castle in Écurat, France.

Château de la Morinerie is a long, low stone building in Écurat, with a central pavilion rising above two symmetrical wings. Its walls are light beige stone, weathered and patched, and the wings carry hipped slate roofs with round dormer windows in carved stone surrounds. The central pavilion has a curved, dome-like slate roof topped by a finial, a small window above two tall closed white shutters, and a central doorway flanked by shuttered windows.

Pierre Senné, a captain of bridges and towers in Saintes, is documented as the first owner of the La Morinerie estate in 1593. The facades and roofs received official protection as historical monuments through a ministerial decree in 1969.

The name La Morinerie comes from the Senné family's noble residence, documented in 1593 in the parish of Écurat. Guillaume Duval, King's prosecutor at the Saintes presidial, had the older dwelling rebuilt around 1670. In 1895 the property was sold to Gaston Charrier, a brandy merchant and mayor of Plassay.

The building is a private property in Écurat, Charente-Maritime, and its gardens were entered in the pre-inventory of remarkable gardens in 2003. The facades and roofs are listed as a monument historique since 3 December 1969. The long low wings and central pavilion are best seen from outside, along the low stone step at the base.

A 1690 building contract records a wing measuring "94 pieds de longueur sur 18 pieds de largeur", to serve as cellar, storeroom and bakehouse with granaries above. Guillaume Duval had older buildings demolished to make room for it. The document places this wing at the west end of the house, next to the pavilion.