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The Cosquer Manor House, located in Plougasnou in Finistère, is a historical monument dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries. This Breton mansion is distinguished by its characteristic architecture, with a granite entrance porch forming a double arcade, including a cavalier door and a pedestrian door. Near the gate, a stone dovecote houses nests cut directly into the rock, testifying to the agricultural and seigneurial uses of the time.

Inside the courtyard, the main building dominates the whole, while a well dug into the wall, under a prominent arcade, is equipped with granite consoles for buckets and an animal age. The mansion retains remarkable interior elements, such as wood coat fireplaces and a stone staircase. The remains of the chapel Sainte-Anne, located at the entrance of the driveway leading to the mansion, also recall its religious past, although today only walls and an altar table remain.

The Cosquer mansion was partially protected by an order of 16 April 1975, covering its facades, roofs, entrance gate and dovecote. This monument illustrates the way of life of the Breton lords of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, combining residential, agricultural and symbolic functions. Its state of conservation and its interior and exterior fittings make it a valuable testimony to the rural and seigneurial architecture of the region.

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