Larmor Manor

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Le château en bref

In Larmor, a district of Vannes opening onto the Gulf of Morbihan, the manor is a sixteenth-century noble residence enclosed within high walls. Its Breton name, meaning ‘at the edge of the sea’, reflects its position facing the gulf. The 1513 reformation of the nobility records it as ennobled for some sixty years, which places its noble status around the middle of the fifteenth century. In 1536 it belonged to the Talhouët family, one of the leading houses of the Vannetais. The manor has a rare feature: its ground plan is linear, with the main residence and the outbuildings set in a row rather than arranged around a courtyard. The granite main building rises one square storey beneath a slate roof with long pitches, and it retains at least one doorway with a lintel resting on corbels from the period of its construction. The ensemble also includes an enclosure, a courtyard, a chapel, a garden and outbuildings, forming a small, complete seigniorial estate. Listed in the Inventaire de Bretagne, the manor is not protected as a historic monument and remains privately owned.