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Carneville Castle stands in the Val de Saire, east of Cherbourg, in the commune of Carneville, Manche. A first castle, known as the Motte, existed in the Middle Ages before being destroyed by the English in 1405. François Simon had a manor house built in 1640, and his son Hervé François Simon erected a second one in 1699. The present château was built in 1755 for François Hervé Simon de Carneville: a rectangular main building 26 metres long, set on a raised ground floor, with an upper storey and dormer windows, enlivened by a central projecting bay crowned with a triangular pediment. It is accompanied by a French-style garden and a park of seven hectares. Partially protected as a monument historique, it has belonged to Guillaume Garbe since 2012.