Château de Nogarède, 16th-century feudal castle in Sieuras, France.
Château de Nogarède is a 16th-century castle with four towers, including one octagonal tower, all constructed with red brick typical of the Toulouse region. The main building is accompanied by a small chapel, a former agricultural storage structure, and the remains of a stone windmill on the grounds.
Built mainly in the 16th century and modified until the 18th, the castle was long home to the de Sers family. Its entrance door dates from 1550. The facades, roofs, great hall with its fireplace and the Saint-Laurent chapel were listed as monuments historiques in 1989, and the whole castle with its outbuildings in 2023.
The Saint-Laurent chapel, which still needs restoration, has a curved wall bell gable with three niches. Inside are a painted wooden pulpit and two statues, of Saint Germaine and Saint Joseph. The Sers family lived at the castle for a long time.
The castle is private property and cannot be visited; it stands on a hill at 294 m altitude north of Sieuras, near the D19a road, between the village and Sainte-Suzanne. It can only be seen from the outside, so plan to observe the brick facades and towers from the surrounding public roads.
The south towers rise 23 metres over three floors; the octagonal one holds a door dated 1550 opening onto a spiral staircase, doubled by a second staircase in a turret at the third floor. The tower walls taper from 1.75 m thick at the base to 1.67 m at the top.
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