Manoir du Petit Rulliac

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Le château en bref

The Manoir du Petit Rulliac is located in the commune of Saint-Avé, in the Morbihan department. It comprises two aligned residential blocks. The western block, dating from the first quarter of the 16th century, has a massed plan with one room per floor and a wall cupboard; it is built of granite and rubble stone without dressed-stone quoins, partly rendered, under a slate roof with long pitches. Its western part has been lowered by one storey, and a former ground-floor window has been converted into a door. A stair tower, shown on the 1844 cadastre, has disappeared; a high doorway in the northern elevation preserves its trace. The eastern block, which has no upper storey, bears the date 1701 and was later used as a cowshed; a former external stone staircase has been demolished. In 1636, René d'Aradon sold the Petit Rulliac to Julien Begaud and Marie Gillot. The whole, partly destroyed and in poor condition, is privately owned. It should not be confused with the neighbouring château de Rulliac, which is protected as a monument historique.