Chateau
The French country seat: a large house with the symmetry, steep roofline and axial approach of the French tradition, whether or not it retains defensive fabric.
- Also called
- château
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- House
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- typology.chateau
- Note
- Parented to `house` rather than `castle` on a judgement call. The French word covers both and some châteaux are genuinely fortified, but the term as the trade uses it means a grand house; where the fabric is actually defensive, `castle` is the better term.
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