Manoir du Pou

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Le château en bref

The Manoir du Pou is located in the commune of Guidel, in Morbihan. The du Pou family has been established there since at least 1391, when Jean du Pou and Jeanne de Quénécan were in residence; François du Pou was secretary to Duke François II of Brittany in the fifteenth century. The complex occupies the north side of an enclosed courtyard and consists of two successive residential wings of one storey, built in granite and rubble masonry with rendered finish under slate. The west wing, heavily remodelled in the nineteenth century, dates from the early sixteenth century and retains a timber staircase and an ancient sink. The east wing, enlarged in the second half of the seventeenth century, has a half-projecting staircase extended by a balustrade of turned balusters. In the eighteenth century, Charles de Lusançay, commissary of the Navy at Lorient, had works carried out. The outbuildings to the south have sculpted dormer windows; the entrance combines a pedestrian gate and a carriage gate, and there is a hexagonal well, a fountain, a wash house and a fish pond. An interior panelling is considered remarkable by the Inventory. The manor is privately owned.