Château de la Villedubois

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The Château de la Villedubois stands in an outlying hamlet of Mordelles, within the Rennes Métropole area. Seat of a seigneury with high justice rights in the Middle Ages, it was sold in 1647 to the Farcy family, who still own it. The main building, some fifty metres long, has a ground floor, a full first floor and an attic, with a south façade of eleven bays. Its walls combine rendered rubble, cob and half-timbering beneath slate roofs. The principal campaigns of building date from the second half of the seventeenth century and the mid-eighteenth century; a painted ceiling of the seventeenth century decorates the hunting room, and two staircases serve the floors. Under the Second Empire, an English-style landscape park was created. Around 1900, the Rennes architect Frédéric Jobbé-Duval built a Neo-Renaissance pavilion. The chapel, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, has a Baroque tuffeau portal; a circular dovecote and cob outbuildings complete the ensemble. Listed as a Monument Historique in 2014, the château offers guided visits, bed and breakfast accommodation and events.