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The Plessis mansion, located in Vouvray (Indre-et-Loire), is a 17th-century building listed as a historical monument in 1981. Former fief depending on the prevote of Oé, it consists of a long rectangular house overtaking a cellar, with a circular turret at the southwest corner and the remains of a second turret to the northeast. A circular leak, whose bolts have been plugged, completes the whole.

The estate changed hands several times: it belonged to the widow Bruinet in 1476, then to René de l'Espinay, mayor of Vouvray, in 1521. Yves de l'Espinay inherited in 1626, before the mansion passed to Louis de Bordeaux in 1657, then to the Marquis d'Ussé and to N. Petiteau in 1742. The ruins of a second 17th century house, made of brick and stone, remain north of the site.

The protected elements include the facades and roofs of the house body, as well as the remains of the adjoining building and the adjoining run away. The site, located in 1386 Le Plessis, preserves architectural traces marked by its feudal history and successive transformations.

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