Coffournic Manor

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Le château en bref

Coffournic Manor stands in an isolated location, at the locality of the same name, in the commune of Sarzeau on the Rhuys peninsula (presqu'île de Rhuys). It is privately owned, and the regional heritage inventory service of Brittany (service régional de l'Inventaire du patrimoine culturel de Bretagne) surveyed it in 1992 as part of the topographic inventory of the canton of Sarzeau. The main building dates back to the first half of the 16th century. In the following century, a lean-to was added to its north-east side. The stair tower and the north-west lean-to appear to have been built or rebuilt in 1812, a date inscribed on the central window of the upper floor. A sundial bears the date 1775. Around 1890, Emmanuel Le Ray, an architect based in Rennes who was then the owner of the property, reworked the openings of the south façade, remodelled the interiors and had a dormer window pierced on the south side. Built in granite, partly rendered and roofed in slate, the building has a ground floor and a full upper floor under a pitched roof with long slopes, combining gabled and hipped ends with a valley. The inventory researchers describe its plan as a ‘faux double en profondeur’, and note that the stair tower, semi-projecting, was added after the upper room was built. A window lintel on the upper floor, east of the south façade, is decorated with a carved lozenge motif.