Penguily Manor

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Le château en bref

Located at the locality of Penguily, about one and a half kilometres north-west of the centre of Plouray, in the Guéméné area of north-western Morbihan, Penguily Manor is a sixteenth-century noble residence. It was not an independent seigneury but a juveigneury, that is, an estate allotted to a younger branch of the family, which depended on the manor of Dréorz. In the sixteenth century it belonged to Vincent Le Scauff, or Le Scanff, who paid homage in 1540, and then to his descendants, including Louise, wife of Jean Le Grant. In 1646 Guillaume du Bahuno held it, before it passed to the du Bouetiez family. The manor is built of granite rubble and rises one square storey beneath a slate roof with long pitches. Notable features include a mullioned window, a basket-handle doorway, a large chimneypiece with a moulded cornice, and a spiral staircase without windows, built outside the main body of the house in a rectangular outbuilding. Listed in the General Inventory, it is not protected as a monument historique. As a private property, it is not open to visitors.