Manoir de la Cour

En un regard

Le château en bref

In Reigneville-Bocage, in the centre of the Cotentin, the Manoir de la Cour is a Renaissance country house, built around 1575–1580. It should not be confused with the many other manoirs de la Cour in Normandy, notably those at Boutteville, Bricquebec or Flottemanville. Its main building, unusually tall with four storeys, stands out for its carefully executed openings: mullioned windows crowned with small triangular pediments, in keeping with the decorative vocabulary of the later Renaissance. A small brick turret, corbelled out, clings to the façade and adds a note of colour to the stonework. Barely completed, the manor was damaged during the Wars of Religion, which hit the Cotentin hard. It is listed as a historic monument and remains a privately owned property.