Kermelin Manor

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Kermelin Manor, in Saint-Avé north of Vannes, has retained most of its early sixteenth-century structure. Its main residence was built around 1520 in granite and rubble stone. Elongated, it rises over a square storey and has two rooms per level, served by a stair turret at the rear, topped with a conical roof, which contains a spiral staircase without any light openings. During the same century, a wing set at right angles was added; it probably housed the kitchen and seems to have been used as a cowshed in the nineteenth century. A linking building from the twentieth century reuses an old doorway. The interior retains early fireplaces, while the coat of arms that surmounted the entrance has disappeared. The courtyard is flanked by outbuildings and a dovecote. Around 1960, a well from the late eighteenth century, brought from the Loyon manor in Ploeren, was re-erected on site. The restored manor is privately owned.