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Le château en bref
Saint-Ouen Manor is located in the village of Rots, near Caen, about fifty metres east of the church of Saint-Ouen. It was the former rural estate of the Abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen, which collected the tithe on the parish and stored the harvests there. Of the complex, largely destroyed, survives the great hall known as the tithe barn: a vast rectangular nave between two tall gables, buttressed and opening through a single carriage gate in the middle of the south-west wall. A porch once preceded it, which seems to have disappeared after the protection. The Mérimée record identifies the 16th and 17th centuries as the main period of construction. The building has been partially listed as a monument historique since 21 June 1927; privately owned, the barn is noted as open to visitors during the Journées du patrimoine.