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Manoir Desmares

Lisieux, Calvados, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Le manoir en totalité (cad. AC 319, 320) : inscription par arrêté du 15 décembre 2003
Protection dates
2003/12/15 : inscrit MH
Type
manoir
Main period of construction
4e quart 15e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
5, 7 rue Aristide-Briand
Commune
Lisieux
Département
Calvados
Region
Normandie
Country
France
Coordinates
49.14649, 0.22864
Mérimée reference
PA14000035

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1759 map "61 Lisieux, Honfleur." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Un des rares vestiges restant de l'habitat lexovien en pan de bois, après les destructions de 1944. Sa typologie le situe parmi les édifices en pan de bois élevés à l'extrême fin du 15e siècle, avec une structure en encorbellement sur sommiers et galerie de circulation en élévation.

English translation

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One of the rare vestiges remaining of Lexovian timber framing after the destructions of 1944. Its typology places it among timber-framed buildings constructed at the very end of the 15th century, with a corbelled structure on summer beams and circulation gallery in elevation.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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