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The Coadelan mansion, located in Prat in the Côtes-d'Armor (British), is a seigneurial building of the 15th and 16th centuries, although some parts, such as the North Square Tower, may go back to the 13th century. It consists of a main house of 35 meters flanked by two towers, with a typical interior organization: kitchen, lower room, cold room on the ground floor, and bedrooms as well as an upper room upstairs. Two opposite staircases serve the levels, one of which overlooks the eastern facade facing a pond fed by springs and a tributary of the Jaudy. Defensive elements (tourelle, aisle door) and comfort facilities (heated galleries, oven, ornate fireplaces) testify to its dual residential and symbolic use.

Founded at the beginning of the 14th century by the family Le Chevoir, whose coat of arms ("de gules au croissant d ́argent surmounted by three macles") still adorn the mansion, the estate passes by alliance to the Red at the beginning of the 16th century. Rolland Le Chevoir and Jeanne Le Rouge, married around 1500, financed the reconstruction of the chapel Saint-Jean de Tréovazan. The manor is then linked to Guy Eder de La Fontenelle, leader leaguer and well-known robber, who married in 1594-1595 minor heir Marie Le Chevoir after having abducted him. The couple stayed there before Guy Eder was executed in 1602. The seigneury remained in the Chevoir family until 1667, then passed to the Bouillé by marriage, before being abandoned as principal residence in the 18th century.

Ranked a Historic Monument in 1927, the manor house preserves traces of its architectural evolution, such as the chapel added in the south tower around 1660 or the 17th century restorations. A fire in 1988 partially damaged its structure, but restoration work allowed it to be preserved. The site, isolated in the countryside between Guingamp and Lannion, also reveals a neolithic occupation attested by a menhir at the entrance. Its spatial organization (courses, gardens, dovecote, aisle d'honneur) and its past activities (loin culture, rolling) reflect its economic and seigneurial role.

Architectural and dendrochronological studies place the oldest beams in the kitchen around 1305-1327, while the lower room dates back to the years 1362-1390. The "gallery of pleasure" in heavy, the seigneur's private oven, and the beams ceilings illustrate the refinement of noble life in Brittany during the Renaissance. After the Revolution, the mansion changed hands (Le Corgne family, Kergariou) before being acquired in the 21st century by the Francès family, perpetuating its multi-year history.

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