Manoir des Tourelles, Fortified manor with farming operations in Gatteville-le-Phare, France

The Manoir des Tourelles is a fortified house from the 16th or 17th century in Gatteville-le-Phare. Its entrance is a double gate with a wide carriage arch and a narrower pedestrian arch, flanked on the right by a cylindrical dovecote tower with a conical slate roof and a pigeon niche. A four-step mounting block stands at the tower's base, and the 16th-century main dwelling at the back of the courtyard has openings altered in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The manor dates from the 16th or 17th century and was probably built by the de Hennot family. It was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the openings of the 16th-century main building were reworked. The fortified house stands in the hamlet of Denneville, in Gatteville-le-Phare, in the Manche department.

The manor reflects local agricultural practices through its granite apple mill, whose grooved stone was designed to grind bullrushes into horse feed. This practical equipment shows how the property adapted its operations to serve the surrounding farming community and its animals.

The manor stands in the Denneville hamlet, along the D10 road at the outlet of the old royal road, 2 km southwest of the Saint-Pierre church of Gatteville-le-Phare. Access is through a double gate, with a carriage arch and a pedestrian door, flanked on the right by the dovecote tower.

In the courtyard stands a granite apple mill, a stone trough in which a grooved wheel once crushed rushes to feed horses. On the mill's axis is a sundial dated 1630, brought from the priory of Réville. The dovecote tower beside the gate has a pigeon niche and, at its base, a four-step mounting block for riders.