Manoir des Fossés

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Manoir des Fossés, in Plélan-le-Petit (Côtes-d'Armor), is a fortified manor house of the “logis-porte” (gatehouse dwelling) type built in the mid-14th century: a rectangular two-level building measuring 18.50 by 8 metres, which retains an exceptional Gothic roof structure, described as unique in Brittany in a civil building. Its defensive east façade has five cross-shaped arrow slits, two pointed-arch windows and a round-arched carriage entrance; on the courtyard side, an upper-floor door located five metres above the ground served as a defensive entrance. The fief, which held rights of high justice over several surrounding communes, passed successively to the Le Borgne family (14th century), the de La Bouëxière family (15th–16th centuries), the DesNos and Le Doyen families (17th–18th centuries), then the de Guergorlay family (1710–1793). A new main residence with a hexagonal stair tower and a bakehouse were built in the 16th century, complemented in the 17th century by a 30-metre longhouse with a porch. In 2003, a buried watermill was discovered on the site.