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Origin and history

The house located on 20 rue des Perdreries in Tréguier is a hotel built mainly in the 15th century, with enlargements in the 17th century. This building is made of granite, shale and sandstone and consists of a two-storey housing body and a rear wing. Its southern façade features a Gothic gate decorated with wooded coats of arms, probably linked to canons. Elements such as flat-passes, cushions and a screw staircase testify to a rare comfort for the era. The building was originally larger, with half destroyed after 1834.

The hotel occupies the outbuildings of the former Episcopal Palace of Tréguier, destroyed in 1594 during the League wars. Only the carved gate of this bishopric remains, reused in the current construction. In the 17th century, the north wing was added under the impulse of Canon Philippe du Halgouët, cousin of the bishop, whose silent coat of arms adorns a door. The house, called "laennec prebend" in 1791 after its last canon owner, Michel Laennec de Penticou, was sold as national property in 1795 to Jean-Marie Le Bouder.

In the 19th century, half of the building was demolished by Count Gustave Le Borgne de La Tour to build commons. In 1961, the town of Tréguier acquired the whole, including the adjacent "Hotel de La Tour". In spite of urban transformations denaturing its environment (construction of social housing in 1968), facades and roofs were listed in the Historical Monuments in 1973. The old bishop's door, which was classified in 1924, recalls its link with local religious history.

Architecturally, the hotel combines residential and symbolic functions. The entrance hall through serves kitchen, staircase and adjoining rooms, while amenities such as wall cupboards, monumental fireplaces and dust windows reflect a high social status. Marteled coats of arms, including that of the Guermeur family, suggest influential occupants. The original view of the Guindy, now obstructed, highlighted its prestige at the western entrance of the city, close to the Cathedral of Saint-Tugdual.

The 1791 minutes and the cadastral plans reveal an extensive property, including orchards and gardens. The water pipe of the Tréguier pump (1605) crossed the "Verger de Messire du Halegoat", confirming its integration into the medieval urban network. Sold as a national property, then fragmented, the building illustrates post-revolutionary heritage changes. Its restoration and the requalification of its surroundings could restore to this monument its central role in the history of Tréguier, a city long dominated by its bishopric.

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