Kergurion Manor

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Le château en bref

Isolated in the countryside of Plaudren, north-east of Vannes, Kergurion Manor is a private residence listed by the regional heritage inventory service of Brittany (Inventaire du patrimoine culturel de Bretagne), which surveyed it in 1980 as part of the topographic inventory of the canton of Grand-Champ. The seigneury is attested from 1420, when it was in the hands of Gilles d'Auray. The central body of the present residence dates from the sixteenth century; its staircase and upper floor were remodelled in the eighteenth century. In 1749 the estate passed to the Chevalier de la Choue, who had the side wings built around 1750 and, at about the same time, removed the manor's defensive features. The date 1753 appears on the building as well as on the pillars of the south entrance to the garden. The side sections were further altered in the first half of the twentieth century. The residence rises over a square single storey. Its walls combine granite and schist rubble, without quoins of dressed stone, beneath a slate roof with long slopes ending in an exposed gable. Inside, the staircase is built within the walls (dans œuvre) and turns on landings, without a window. The estate also retains outbuildings (cowshed, stable, storehouse, bread oven, well) and a garden, which the Inventory has not studied in detail.