Manoir de Boissey

English translation

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History

The origins of the seigneury of Boissey are poorly known. If the land is mentioned from the 11th century, the first attestation of the family of that name dates back to the early 13th century. The fief passed by marriage to the families of Tilly, then Murdrac in the 14th century. Known through a deed of 1672, it extended over several parishes, comprising 850 acres of land and an unfieoffed estate of approximately 50 acres. It is a knight's fief, whose lords benefited from rights of low justice, dovecote, mill and motte; the latter corresponds, in the 17th century, to the right to dispose of a moated dwelling associated with rights of justice. The site of the manor, surrounded by water-filled ditches delimiting an irregular quadrilateral, has evolved little despite the construction of two agricultural buildings and especially the division of the property in two. The whole is composed of a main residential block, a secondary block now partially ruined and agricultural outbuildings arranged around a courtyard. The main residential block comprises an old nucleus, with back-to-back fireplaces and newel stair set within the thickness of the walls, from the second half of the 15th century. It is enlarged and transformed at the end of the 17th or early 18th century, at the same time as the outbuildings are rebuilt, forming a homogeneous timber framing architectural ensemble. Only the stable situated at the south-east corner of the site belongs to the preceding period. Agricultural occupation continues into the early 20th century, as evidenced by the preserved installations.