Château de Penhouët

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Le château en bref

At the locality of Penhoët, in La Croix-Helléan near Josselin, the Château de Penhoët, also spelt Penhouët, is a seigneurial manor house of the 18th century, enlarged in the following century. In 1514, the house and farm of Penhouët belonged to Jacob Regnauld. A dovecote was authorised there in 1667, and a chapel, now vanished, is mentioned in 1682. At the end of the 17th century, the lordship passed to the Le Guennec family, for whom the château was built in the 18th century. In 1752, the marriage of Cyrille-René Rolland du Noday to Anne-Josèphe Le Guennec brought the estate into the Rolland du Noday family, who enlarged it in the 19th century and remodelled its park. Charles-Hippolyte Rolland du Noday, canon and chaplain to the King, died there in 1840. The main building has a full storey and an attic, five bays with segmental arches and three pedimented dormers, built in schist, granite and rubble stone under slate. It retains a dog-leg staircase. Pavilions and a rounded turret were added in the 19th century. The park extends to the east and west. It is a private residence.