The countryside of Pays de Caux is full of manors and chateaux. Variety of building materials and their colors give it a very harmonious and particular beauty.
On this hike you will discover three types of manors :

- Half-timbered manor
- Manor of the "côte", plaster on ground floor, half-timber on the upper floor.
- Manor built of brick and stone.



Quesnay Manor
 NOINTOT :

. Start by leaving the church behind you and walking along the school. Take a right at the first intersection. After 1,5 km, turn right again into a dirt path behind the first farm after the highway. Continue until you get to a black top road and make a left at the next intersection. You will get to road D73 which takes you to Bernières. At the intersection in front of the church, about 50m away, on the road to the right, you will see the Quesnay Manor. You will notice the St André cross that support the windows and the beams supporting the overhang of the upper floor.

BERNIERES :

At the next intersection on road D73, go right on the one way behind the butcher's. Go about 200m and you will see the Manor of the "Portes", with its chessboard paqttern of bricks and stones on the ground floor and its big chimney. The roof is not as long and as steep as it was when built.

Manor of the "Portes"

Château of Durdan

 Soon after, turn on the right then to the left. You will be facing the chateau of Durdanwith its Henry II tower, its huge park and its austere 19th century chapel.
If you have time and a IGN map, you can go to Rouville. This detour is approximately _ km longer. You will leave by the road behind the château going towards the church of Bielleville, to the manor of "Paltrie" or "Pailleterie", built in 1602 of bricks by one of Alexandre Dumas' ancestors. If you follow the usual tour, walk past the château of Durdan and at the 2nd intersection, go to right, you will be in Rouville.

Manoir of Paltrie

Rouville Château 

 ROUVILLE :

Take the little road on the right of the church, you will find Rouville Chateau about 400m away. Built in the 17th century, it has large dormer windows made of stone. You can have lunch here (Reservation : M. and Mrs Hervieux 02 35 31 13 98)
Go back to the church and take the road across from it, road to Bernières, turn left before you reach the water tower and cross road D149. You will see, on your left the Rouville Chateau. Rouville village is 1,5 km away. 
RAFFETOT :

Take the winding road, straight through the intersection to the end of the black top road. Before continuing on your right look in the distance, about 100m ahead of you, you will see a cottage notable for its elevated situation, with 5 steps leading to it. The path takes to Baclair Chateau. Unfortunately you can only see the back of it, this addition constructed in the 19th century to a Renaissance building partially surrounded by a moat dating back to the Middle Ages!

Baclair château

Nointot

 Go across road D149 and after the first farm, go to your right on a small road which turns into a stone path. You will meet with road D73. On the left, it takes you to the intersection at the church and behind it, the town hall of Nointot where you started from.