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The house is a 16th century wood-paned building, built on a large plot of land between Place Henri IV and Place Saint-Pierre in Vannes. Its architecture combines a Renaissance-style masonry base and two corbelled floors, surmounted by a living-up floor under a long-paned roof. The facades are reinforced by crosses of Saint-André and motifs in strands of fern, while the carved spacers vary according to the levels. An adorned beam separates the first and second floors, the latter forming almost a bridge with a nearby house.

The house was mentioned in 1455-1458 in the annuitant du domaine ducal as property of Guillaume Le Roux, treasurer general of Brittany. In the 17th century (1677), the archives of the reformation of the estate attributed Nicole Cillart, the lady of Couettec, and indicated that it houses a merchant of silk sheets, Sieur Pelissier. The architectural features (Renaissance Subaisse, St Andrew's cross stiffenings) date back to its construction in the first half of the 16th century, although later changes have altered certain elements, such as the spacers on the first floor.

On the south front, a small wooden panel body was later added, probably replacing a passage or a side courtyard. The original, partially preserved bases include a cut stone column and an angle pilastre. The southern gable still bears traces of the primitive openings, with crossovers in aligned allegation. Classified as a Historic Monument in 1929 for its facades on the square and on the street, this house illustrates the evolution of the urban habitat of valvery between the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Its present state reflects both its past prestige — linked to influential owners as a Ducal Treasurer — and functional adaptations over the centuries, especially for commercial activities (silk merchant in the 17th century). The construction techniques (pan of wood, corbelling) and carved decorations make it a representative example of the Breton civil architecture of the period.

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