Manor of La Ville au Chêne

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Le château en bref

At Malansac, in the former canton of Rochefort-en-Terre in the south-east of the Morbihan, La Ville au Chêne is a seventeenth-century rural manor house, recorded by the Inventaire général in 1979 during its survey of the canton, and whose file was updated in 2025. The main building is constructed of granite rubble, with a square storey, beneath slate roofs with long pitches ending in covered and uncovered gables. Inside, it retains a dog-leg staircase with a central light well, a layout more modern than the traditional spiral staircase of Breton manor houses, which bears witness to a certain ambition. The ensemble is completed by a stable and a barn bearing the date 1629, recalling the agricultural role of these residences of the rural lesser nobility, which were both homes and farming centres. The sources consulted do not name the families who owned it. The manor is not listed as a monument historique and remains a private property.