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Château du Ratz is an isolated manor house at the locality of Le Ratz, in Arradon, Morbihan, north-west of Vannes. The noble estate is known from 1443, when it belonged to Olivier d'Arradon, and the word "manoir" appears in the records in 1513. The present residence took shape in stages. Its central section, built of rubble stone beneath a long-pitched roof with an attic loft, may date back to the eighteenth century. The west pavilion, already mentioned in 1852, probably dates from the first half of the nineteenth century; another pavilion was added around the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, and the upper part of the west pavilion was doubtless remodelled at that time. The side pavilions, with a square first floor and an attic storey under pavilion roofs, are distinguished by their brick surrounds and decorative brickwork; carved finials crown their dormer windows. The whole, roofed in slate, was studied by the Inventaire de Bretagne and remains a privately owned property.