This delightful small manor house lies in a valley by a river, 12 kms from the beaches along the coast, from where you can see the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Sark. It was built as a fortified house during the Huguenot rebellion in the 16th century and is quite unique in this part of Normandy. The windows were specifically designed for attack and defense, one has an opening for a rifle, the tower has openings from which to hurl tar and boiling oil onto the invaders and, perhaps most tellingly, there is a liturgical basin. The last Huguenot owner was executed in 1597 for crimes against the Abbaye de Blanchlande to which the King awarded ownership of the manoir for a period of two hundred years, in compensation.