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Origin and history

The Poull mansion is an iconic building located in Mellionnec, in the Côtes-d'Armor department, Brittany. Although its first attested mention dates back to 1536, it preserves architectural traces of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including a 1613 accolade window and an oculus. The present house, rebuilt in 1880 for Yves Le Guen, incorporates ancient elements such as a 16th century fireplace and a decorative basin of the same period.

The mansion changed owners over the centuries: it belonged to Louis Le Mur in 1536, then to the Raoul families in 1613 and Robien in 1750. The cadastral plan of 1835 reveals a configuration different from that of today, with a square courtyard and partly disappeared outbuildings. Among the remarkable features are a 17th-century well, a 19th-century oratory near a miraculous spring, and washhouses reserved for manor dwellers and villagers.

The manor enclosure, delimited by pillars dated 1755, also houses remains of the original domestic chapel. Architectural re-uses, such as a moulding with erased weapons or engraved dates (1613, 1703), testify to its evolution. Listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage, the mansion illustrates local history through its successive transformations and social functions, between seigneurial habitat and place of community life.

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