En un regard
Le château en bref
The Manoir du Perray stands at La Chapelle-aux-Choux, in the south of the Sarthe, on the northern slope of the hillside on the left bank of the Loir. Its main building, almost at ground level with the courtyard, belongs to the sixteenth-century type, while its rear façade overlooks the garden and the valley. The interior, studied by the regional Inventory, is arranged as two rooms with fireplaces on either side of a central corridor. A spiral staircase with a timber frame, set at the rear, serves a semi-sunken cellar and the attic floors, lit by dormer windows. A square pavilion with very thick walls, which may be the remains of a keep predating the Hundred Years' War, accompanies it, and the farmyard forms a distinct space. In 1601, the estate belonged to a Sieur du Perray and to Marthe de Gueffrey; in 1657, Henri de Thory, knight and lord of Perray, resided there. The manor is privately owned and is not protected as a monument historique.