In the Orne department, on the outskirts of the Norman

A long driveway, 300 years old and planted with horse chestnut trees, leads to the 17th-century impregnable-looking seigniorial home, once the estate of the famous marquis d'Ango. A covered double gateway with a basket-handle arch decorated with the coat of arms of the Motte Ango family, as well as an adjacent pedestrian door open onto a grand rectangular courtyard. All around, organised in a U shape, is the central manor and its outbuildings, the tree-filled garden and the chateau's former moats.
Facing the courtyard on the southern side, the 17th-century dwelling has two floors with convertible attic space, crowned with a gabled flat tile ochre roof. It is punctuated with three dormer windows topped with triangular pediments.
Its stately façades are made out of hard masonry, granite, limestone, schist, puddingstone, formed from large dressed rubble stone. The windows are aligned in vertical rows, including the dormer windows, inserted into dressed grey granite surrounds.

The Manor
The ground floor
On the courtyard side, a flight of pyramidal steps leads to the entrance. The wooden French doors are topped with a fanlight and open onto a large vestibule and its imposing spiral granite staircase that leads to the first floor. The dual-aspect, luminous entrance hall is tiled with ancient octagonal red terracotta tomette tiles, as is the entire level. On one side, the space leads to a living room decorated with its antique fireplace and granite mantle. Bathed in light by