Shortly after you leave the village via the secondary road, a rural lane overlooking the surrounding countryside leads to a gate framed between two granite pillars upon which sculpted lions sit, holding coats of arms. A 150-metre-long driveway takes you to the chateau and its monumental entrance. The majestic complex was built in the 17th century near the initial fiefdom here.

Its square courtyard, its design with a lower entrance wing, its two towers flanking the entrance, and its antique ornamentation of columns, masks and caryatids bear witness to the Late Renaissance in architecture, which is rare in Brittany.

The main section is crowned with a slate roof. It has rendered elevations with quoins and window and door surrounds of exposed dressed stone. It has a semibasement, a ground floor, a first floor and a second floor in the roof space.

Two wings, lower in height, extend forwards from this main section at a right angle to it, framing the dwelling. The two wings face each other. Each wing has a ground floor and a first floor. They lead up to the pair of entrance towers. These twin entrance towers stand in symmetry with each other, capped with slate roofs and adorned with square turrets.

On the east side of the grounds, there is an orangery with its own entrance from a lane, a caretaker’s house and, to the south, a group of outbuildings arranged around a second court. These outhouses include ruins, a long rural building and a range of other structures used for storage.

A wood extends beside the parkland. The whole property covers around 4.3 hectares.

The chateau

A carriage archway cuts through the entrance wing, which is made entirely of dressed stone. Two Ionic columns frame this carriage archway, which leads into the court beneath an entablature of angels and a pediment displaying a coat of arms. This entrance wing stands between two towers with rendered elevations. Their quoins and window and door surrounds are made of exposed dressed stone. A raised walkway running along the top of the entrance wing links the two towers.

In line with these twin towers, two wings that are identical to each other stretch from the towers to the main dwelling at a right angle to it. The two wings face each other. Each wing has a ground floor and a first floor. Their first floors are filled with natural light from large wall dormers with arched pediments along their respective roofs, which flare out slightly at the bottom.

Once you have gone through the monumental front wing and across the grand courtyard, the main dwelling towers before you as majestically as the entrance wing. You are immediately struck by the symmetry of its facade, centred on a central axis. There are five bays. Stringcourses demarcate each level. Hipped roofs mirror one another. And a double flight of steps leads up to the entrance door harmoniously.

The edifice offers a liveable floor area of around 1,800m².

The ground floor
The ground floor is raised. You reach it via a double flight of front steps. You step into a hallway with a floor of stone slabs.

To the right of a central stone staircase that leads upwards in a U shape, there is a corridor filled with natural light from large small-paned cross-windows. This corridor connects to a bedroom, a lounge and, at the back, a dining room, as well as a high-ceilinged kitchen. Versailles parquet adorns the dining room. Mosaic parquet extends across the other rooms.

To the left of the staircase, there are two lounges that connect to each other. And at the back there is a dining room and an old pantry. Small tiles adorn their floors. The rooms are remarkably spacious. Their high ceilings with exposed joists make them airy. Tall windows bathe the rooms in natural light. The first lounge is a dual-aspect room. A large opening in the first floor reveals the level above.

All the fireplaces and door and window surrounds are made of exposed dressed stone.

In the west wing, the ground floor has an entrance hall, a lavatory and a reception room. This reception space has been given France’s accreditation to be open to the public. It has a tiled floor and walls of exposed stonework. The tower’s ground floor has a bread oven.

In the east wing, the ground floor has an entrance hall, a vast tiled room used as an office, and a technical installations room. The tower offers a cellar with an earthen floor.

The first floor
The dwelling’s central flight of stairs in a stairwell of plastered walls leads to the first floor, which has a layout similar to that of the ground floor.

To the right, a tiled corridor connects to an office and two bedrooms. Wood strip flooring extends across these rooms, which are adorned with fireplaces and filled with natural light from cross-windows. The corridor also connects to a tiled shower room.

To the left, the large opening in the first floor is edged with balustrades, forming a passage to three rooms with wood strip flooring: a lounge, a bedroom and an old pantry. These three rooms are heated with stone fireplaces.

The west wing’s first floor has a shower room with a lavatory and a gallery that runs through the roof space and is filled with natural light from large cross-windows that look eastwards out at the courtyard. In the tower’s first floor, there is a triple-aspect lounge that lets in natural light from the east, south and west.

The east wing’s first floor has a landing and an open-plan apartment with wood strip flooring. It lets in natural light from both the east and west. Its large windows look out at the inner courtyard. A corridor connects to a chapel in the tower. Its door beneath a stone arch leads into an interior embellished with Ionic stone columns that rise up to a vaulted ceiling of pointed arches. Two tall cross-windows and a bull’s-eye window fill the chapel with natural light. Some of the chapel’s items of furniture are original features of the property, including the wooden altarpiece still here today.

The second floor
The main dwelling’s top floor is filled with natural light from a row of windows. It has six rooms with wood strip flooring. They are used for storage and lie on both sides of the staircase. There are two former tiled pantries up here too.

In the west tower, a triple-aspect lounge with wood strip flooring lets in natural light from the east, south and west through small-paned cross-windows.

The tower’s top floor is a loft.

Base level
The semibasement lies at the bottom of the main dwelling. It leads out into the north court at the rear, which is at the same level as it. It has a summer kitchen, four cellars, two old pantries and a boiler room that houses an oil boiler from 2011. The floors are all tiled.

The outbuildings

The property’s outbuildings include a carport, a caretaker’s house, several buildings laid out around a square court, and an orangery, which is currently used as a reception venue.

The orangery
The orangery stands in the north-east of the grounds. It is crowned with a gable slate roof. Many picture windows punctuate its elevations, up which climbing plants grow. It includes a reception room that offers a floor area of around 230m², a caterer’s room of around 30m², a covered patio of 30m², a lavatory, and a cloakroom and storage area of around 75m².

The caretaker’s accommodation
The caretaker’s house stands against the enclosure wall on the property’s north edge. It is listed as a historical monument. The house offers a ground floor area of around 30m² and is crowned with a hipped mansard slate roof. This small dwelling has a ground floor and a first floor. On the ground floor, there is a lounge with a fireplace and a kitchenette. Upstairs, there is a bedroom, a shower room and a mezzanine.

The group of buildings
This group of outhouses is arranged around a square court that is partly enclosed with walls. It includes a long rural building, which has a loft that could be converted and a ground floor that has two bedrooms, a shower room, an office, and a dining room with an open-plan kitchen. The collection of buildings also includes several storehouses and the ruins of a house and dovecote.