Château du Dick

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Le château en bref

Château du Dick is a former fortified manor house in the commune déléguée of Portbail (Port-Bail-sur-Mer, Manche). The present manor, built in the mid-sixteenth century and remodelled at the beginning of the seventeenth century, occupies the site of a feudal motte and of a fourteenth-century fortress demolished on the orders of the King of Navarre (act of 1397). Its plan is an irregular quadrilateral with a main residential block, two truncated towers, a converted chapel, outbuildings and a well in the courtyard. Its lordship passed from the d'Argences family (1279) to the du Castel family, then to the Vivien family (1601, by marriage) and the Poërier family, before the seizure of 1672; the Marquis de Bricqueville acquired it in 1790. The only protected element, the Renaissance chimneypiece in white stone, dated 1628 and decorated with the arms of the Poërier family, has been listed as a monument historique since 10 November 1928. The château is a privately owned property.