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Le château en bref
South of Vannes, near the Conleau peninsula that juts out into the Gulf of Morbihan, the Manoir du Grand Conleau is a residence whose origins are lost in the seigneurial records of the early sixteenth century. It first appears in 1536 in a declaration (aveu) rendered to the ducal domain under Jean de Combourg, and most likely derives from a farm ennobled at the end of the fifteenth century, a phenomenon common in Brittany at the time. The present building is more recent: it appears on the cadastral surveys of 1809 and 1844, the latter describing it as the property of Thomas Ducordic, with fourteen openings, a carriage gate, a garden, a greenhouse and a wood. It is a square two-storey residence (logis) in granite, roofed with slate. Listed in the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage, the manor is not protected as a historic monument and remains a private property; the neighbouring Maison de la Nature occupies a former farm in the hamlet, separate from the manor.