Château de Villers, Historical castle in Villers-sur-Mer, France.

Château de Villers is a Louis XIII-style residence in Villers-sur-Mer, built of red brick with light stone quoins and window surrounds. Two rectangular pavilions are linked by a central building whose facade has two arcades, topped by a small corbelled turret framed at upper level by a stone-balustraded balcony. Steep grey slate pyramid roofs cover the pavilions; the interior was redone around 1770-1780.

The château was probably built by Jean d'Hémery, who acquired the other fiefs of Villers in 1576 through his marriage to Marguerite d'Avila. In 1692 his son Antoine d'Hémery, a page of Louis XIII, was ruined and the seigneurie was seized, then bought by the Malon de Bercy family. Around 1700 Jean Pâris de Monmartel, marquis de Brunoy, acquired the estate from Charles Henri de Malon; his son Armand Louis Joseph died there in 1791, and it passed to a cousin, Antoine Marie Paris d'Illins.

The library's woodwork is listed as a protected element alongside the facades, roofs and kitchen garden by the decree of 28 August 2003. The interior was redone around 1770-1780 under Louis XVI, so the panelling belongs to that campaign rather than to the 17th-century shell. The estate passed from the Hémery family to the Malon de Bercy, then to Jean Pâris de Monmartel, marquis de Brunoy.

The protection order of 28 August 2003 covers the facades and roofs, the library woodwork and the kitchen garden. The castle stands at the spot called le château in Villers-sur-Mer, in the Calvados department of Normandy; the grounds are private, so the building is seen from outside.

The 28 August 2003 listing covers not only the facades and roofs but also the library woodwork and the kitchen garden, so the garden is protected as a monument in its own right. The estate passed from the Hémery family to the Malon de Bercy and then to Jean Pâris de Monmartel, marquis de Brunoy.