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The Jarossay mansion, located in Courgeoût in Orne, was built in the 16th century by Denis Abot (circa 1450-1532), lawyer and Viscount du Perche. This first mansion included a rectangular house with an outside staircase and agricultural buildings organized around a barn, stable, barn and press. The estate, initially seat of a farmhouse, remained in the Abot family until the seventeenth century.

In the 18th century, François René de Tiercelin (1682-1758), descendant by alliance of the Abots, profoundly remodeled the mansion in 1750. The Renaissance bays have been replaced by cross-sections, the roof and re-designed skylights, and the interior has been redesigned to create alcoves and domestic housing. The interior distribution has been modified, with a central clearance on the ground floor and a division of rooms upstairs.

In 1774, the mansion was sold to the family of Champmorin, who added an English garden on the terrace and an access avenue. However, after its acquisition in 1836 by Aubin de Blanpré, owner of the nearby castle of Prulay, the Jarossay lost its status as a residence of pleasure to become a simple farm, dependency of the Guillet castle. The site was partially listed as a Historic Monument in 1998, protecting its facades, roofs, stairs, a wall painting and its fence wall.

The architecture of the mansion reflects its successive transformations: the original house of the 16th century, with its hors-œuvre staircase and its high room accessible by a secondary staircase in corbellation, contrasts with the 18th century layouts. The agricultural buildings, organized around the lower yard, bear witness to its dual function, both seigneurial residence and farm. The mural in a bedroom on the ground floor and the leisure garden, delimited by a fence wall, recall its past as an aristocratic residence.

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