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Origin and history

The Château de La Moussaye is a building located in Plénée-Jugon, in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany. Former rectangular castle, it was equipped with defensive towers at the corners and surrounded by dry moat. The main access was from the north, with secondary access to the west. The current house, in a regular style with a two-storey central body and a kerb roof, occupies the southern side of the inner courtyard. The courtyard's pavilions share this same architecture, with roofs and two floors.

Mentioned from the 13th century as property of the family of La Moussaye, the castle was rebuilt at the end of the 16th century for Charles Gouyon, of which today only the bases and the moat system remain. The estate became a Protestant home in the 16th and 17th centuries, before being erected as a marquisate in 1615. The current house, built around 1860, would have been designed by the Rennes architect Martenot. It replaces a previous house of the seventeenth century, destroyed with the exception of a pediment door still visible in the courtyard. This house was described in 1840 as symmetrical, with bossed vanes and croup roofs.

The castle was once accompanied by mills and ponds, built at the end of the sixteenth century and visible on the cadastre of 1837, but now destroyed. A dovecote, present on the estate, disappeared after 1976. The monument is included in the general inventory of cultural heritage, demonstrating its historical and architectural importance in Brittany.

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