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general architecture

The apparatus harp and angles berries appear particularly careful. All windows have retained their triangular pediments and broken with a ball in the center to the first floor, bent to the second. The windows of the central pavilion are paired, one on the top floor which is adjacent to the roof has lost its crown. The end pavilions are highly salient, allowing them a side with three bays to the west, two east and pediments of the same rhythm as the north wall.

The walls are of masonry (stone "buttermilk"-stones) plastered with stone wall ties at the corners and around the mullioned windows, some arched pediments surmounted. But the multiplication of the facade recrépissages eased its relief and bloated the quoins and appliances harp windows with pediments most have disappeared. The restoration business is expected to remedy. All

quite clearly evokes the rhythms of Cheverny which seems slightly earlier.

Above the entrance door, flanked by pilasters with decorative trim keeps a fruit falls, there is a balcony supported by massive consoles like the Cadillac entry. The upstairs window is the only one to have retained a broken pediment. A dual band marks the separation of floors and continues throughout the building by unifying the different bodies. The cornice is composed of heavy consoles.
Skylights belong to two different types: for flats, a more narrow, semicircular, surmounted by a pediment and flanked fin; for the main building, a rectangular window, lattice, also with arched pediment and fins. The small oval oculus of the dome seems late.

A large cornice brackets reign to the birth of steep roofs

The original frame, oak, especially that of the dome, deserves attention. The tradition that has retained its author: Jehan Petit. The roofer is the Bordeaux Thibaut Bhatia, who is completing his work in 1627.

Poyanne ranks among the great classics of the era castles Louis XIII.
Its facades and roofs are classified historic monument since October 21, 1957.