Talmay Castle, classified as a Historic Monument, is made up of two parts. A keep built by Guillaume de Pontailler between 1234 and 1274, topped with a pyramidal roof added in the 17th century by Pierre 1er Filsjean, purchaser of the estate, master advisor to the Court of Auditors of Paris. His grandson Pierre II Filsjean had the old dilapidated main building razed to build the current castle between 1761 and 1764, to the plans of the architect from Aviler. Ten years earlier, he had had French gardens designed. Pierre-Auguste Floret, forge master in Pesmes, bought this residence in 1824. Without posterity, he left it to his niece Fanny Derrion-Duplan, whose husband Paul Thénard, son of the chemist Louis-Jacques Thénard, devoted himself to chemical work applied to agriculture. He transformed his gardens in English style.

During the 20th century, this same family restored the interior and rehabilitated the French gardens in order to ensure the sustainability of the estate. The garden, labeled Remarkable Garden, is made up of an orchard including 360 fruit trees pruned every year in the shape of a bucket, a French-style flowerbed extended by a wooded park. The latter is preceded, in the axis of the facade, by eight plane trees, planted in 1752.