Trimer Manor

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Le château en bref

Trimer Manor is located in the village of Trimer (Ille-et-Vilaine). Sources date it to between the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century. It is a modest L-plan building, the residence of a local notable. The main block, roofed in slate, has a ground floor of granite rubble and an upper floor of cob (bauge), and a semi-projecting circular stair tower of mixed earth and stone. An inscription, now lost, carved on a chimney lintel on the upper floor named the patron as ‘Noble homme Robious de la Clays’ (incomplete transcription). Converted into a farm in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the manor underwent major restoration from the 1990s onwards and retains its fireplaces and half-timbered partitions. It is privately owned and has been listed as a Monument historique since 20 September 2012.