Villa Les Roches Brunes, Historical seaside villa in Dinard, France.

Villa Les Roches Brunes is a neo-Louis XIII villa built in 1893 by architect Alexandre Angier at the tip of the Pointe de la Malouine. Its red brick facades are framed by white-painted quoins that also surround every window, arched on the ground floor and rectangular above. A red ceramic frieze runs between the walls and the slate roofs, where tall dormers with triangular gables and a central tower with a steep pyramidal spire rise above a white balustraded terrace.

Architect Alexandre Angier designed this residence in 1893 for a Parisian couture creator as part of the La Malouine estate development. Its construction occurred when Dinard's coast was becoming fashionable as a seaside retreat for wealthy Parisians.

The villa's name comes from the rocky spur it stands on at the tip of Pointe de la Malouine. Given to the town by Paul Braud in 2007, it has hosted exhibitions and drawing workshops since its 2012–2014 renovation. From the road, look for the red ceramic frieze between the brick facades and the slate roofs.

The villa is private and cannot be visited inside; it is seen only from the outside, along the allée des Douaniers at the tip of the Pointe de la Malouine. Walk the coastal path to view it from both the Plage de l'Écluse to the east and the smaller Plage de Port-Salut to the west.

A neighbouring villa, Greystones, stood facing it across Port-Salut beach in the same neo-Louis XIII style; its buyer, architect Michel Roux-Spitz, demolished it in 1938 to build an Art Deco house, Greystones 2. That leaves Les Roches Brunes as Dinard's only surviving example of the style. Look for the red ceramic frieze between the walls and roofs, set among white corbels.