[1] The most famous feature of the château is the monumental 17th-century stable block, designed by the noted French architect, François Blondel.

An openwork stone balustrade runs along the base of the steeply pitched roof, which is pierced with dormers opening into the attic.

[3] The oldest part of the current château, the western portion of the southeast façade, was constructed between 1500 and 1514, during the reign of Louis XII of France, for Pierre de La Guiche, the king's ambassador to Rome and, by marriage, a nephew of Jacques d'Amboise.

[1] In the 17th century the château was completed by the addition of two wings perpendicular to the corps de logis with pavilions at the far ends, forming an interior courtyard opening to the north.

[5] The most notable feature at the château is the famous stable block, a vast rectangular building with two monumental stone-balustraded exterior double staircases flanking the main entrance.

The latter is surmounted by a life-sized equestrian statue of Philibert de La Guiche, "an imperial motif unprecedented in a building of this sort".