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Kerlan Manor House, located in Sibiril, Brittany, is a historic monument built between the 15th and 16th centuries. The granite building forms the background of a courtyard formerly lined with buildings constituting a enclosure, whose gate has now disappeared. The splint windows, adorned with clinging lintels, and the 15th century door, with its third-point arching and columns, bear witness to its characteristic architectural style. A staircase turret, now unfurled, completes the whole.

The mansion is mentioned in the archives in connection with the surrender of Keruzere Castle to the Leagues in 1590, stressing its importance in the context of the wars of Religion in Brittany. The main house body, in square, partially borders the courtyard north and east. The facades and roofs of the main building, the wing in return, as well as the west building and the wall connecting them, were protected by inscription to the Historic Monuments in 1969.

The building illustrates the Breton civil architecture of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, marked by the use of granite and defensive or decorative elements such as braces. Its present state, although partially altered (disappearance of the portal, disheartened turret), retains significant traces of its seigneurial past and its role in local history, especially during the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century.

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