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The farm of Coulonches and Cours-Montreuil, classified as a Historical Monument, consists of a logis made of wood with tiles, a horse stable, and other brick buildings. Organized around a closed courtyard, it illustrates Norman rural architecture between the late 15th and early 17th centuries. The house, dating from the end of the 15th century, was enlarged in the 16th century, then enriched with solitary decorations in the 17th century. A distribution corridor was added in the 18th century to serve the rooms.

The site is mentioned as a manor (or "castle") on the map of Cassini, and its almost closed courtyard plan, visible on the cadastre of 1827, was preserved despite the reconstruction of most agricultural buildings in the nineteenth century. The house has a typical moulded corbellation of the late 15th or early 16th century. A room on the ground floor preserves painted decorations from the early seventeenth century, including cartridges, cut leathers, a monogram "VI", and a heart pierced with arrows on two intertwined palm trees, perhaps evoking the coat of arms of William of the Hague, lord of Coulonches at that time.

The protected elements include the whole house, as well as the facades and roofs of all the buildings, registered by order of 15 December 2003. The farm thus embodies the architectural and social evolution of a Norman seigneurial estate, marked by successive transformations between the Middle Ages and the modern era.

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