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The house in the Rumorvan in Lanildut is an emblematic example of the 17th century Breton domestic architecture. Built in 1630, it illustrates the style of shipowners' homes or cabotage bosses, often associated by oral tradition with privateers. These houses, made of local granite covered with thick slates, are distinguished by their raised ground floor and their right floor, surrounded by a paved foreyard and pleasant gardens at the back. Their disposition reflected a certain prosperity for the time, peculiar to the coastal populations of the Abers.

The Rumorvan district concentrates several of these houses, mostly dating from the first half of the seventeenth century. Their spatial organisation – with low buildings surrounding the courtyard and backyards – reflects an adaptation to the region's maritime and commercial activities. These houses, often transmitted by families linked to cabotage or the small frame, embody an architectural and social heritage characteristic of maritime Brittany.

The partial protection of the monument, with the inscription of its facades and roofs in 1970, underscores its historical importance. Although the precise location is approximate (level 5/10), its official address is listed as 18 Rumorvan, in the municipality of Lanildut (Finistère). This site offers a tangible overview of the life of the local elites of the time, between maritime trade and private tradition.

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