Château de la Ville Huchet, Historical castle in Plouër-sur-Rance, France.
Château de la Ville Huchet is a long two-storey building of grey-brown stone under a grey slate roof, with a row of dormer windows along the upper level and three tall windows below the roofline of its central section. A curved stair leads to the central door, and pavilions with steeper pyramidal roofs and chimneys stand at each end. The symmetrical facade has numerous rectangular windows across both floors, and the house stands behind a lawn with a pond and a field of turned earth in front.
In 1695 Charles Auguste de Goyon de Matignon sold the county of Plouër to Pierre de La Haye. Joseph de La Haye (1665-1723) then had the old Saint-Paul castle, seat of the county and probably partly in ruins, entirely remodelled: moats, drawbridges, towers and buildings were replaced by the present Louis XIII-style château, built in the early 18th century. The estate later passed by marriage to the Magon family of Saint-Malo shipowners; Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet owned it, and in 2017 his nephew sold it to the de Vasselot de Régné family. It was inscribed as a monument historique on 15 June 1964.
The estate passed by marriage to the Magon family, shipowners from Saint-Malo, and Thierry Magon de La Ville Huchet owned it. In 2017 his nephew sold the château to the de Vasselot de Régné family, who hold it today.
The château stands in Plouër-sur-Rance, in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany. It is a private property, so visits concern the exterior and the surroundings rather than the interior. The building is inscribed as a monument historique, listed since 15 June 1964.
The château was bought in 2017 by the de Vasselot de Régné family from the nephew of Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, a descendant of the Malouin shipowner family that held the estate through marriage. The property had passed to the Magon family after the La Haye era.
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