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Le château en bref
At the hamlet of Le Mesnil, formerly known as Mesnil-d'Andé, on the boundary between the communes of Andé and Muids, stands a small manor house listed in the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. The main residence, of one square storey beneath a roof with long pitches and gables covered in flat tiles, combines limestone, flint, brick and timber framing in a grid pattern, partly rendered. Only part of the seventeenth-century building, dated without certainty, survived a major remodelling in the eighteenth century. The 1823 cadastral survey still showed a barn and a square dovecote, both now gone; a bread oven is also recorded. The site is attested very early: in 1246, Simon d'Andé ceded to the abbey of La Noë his rights over a vavassory held at Mesnil-d'Andé, and in 1751 Henry Joseph Vachier held the title of lord of Andé and Mesnil-d'Andé. The hamlet, long attached to Muids, was merged with Andé between 1967 and 1972. The building is privately owned and is not protected as a monument historique.