Manoir des Gens d'armes

The manor was originally known as "Manoir de la Talbotière", after a piece of land that belonged to Alexandre de Couvre-chef, Seigneur de Cresserons, at the end of the 13th century. He built his first manor house there, called "des Talbotières".

In 1436, it fell to Jean de Couvrechef, married to Perrette Bertran, who gave him a daughter, Guillemine. In 1487, he gave the land and manor as a dowry to his daughter on her marriage to Philippe de Nollent, lord of Saint-Contest and King's lawyer in Caen. Their son Gérard inherited the estate and had a new manor house built.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the manor was used for agricultural purposes, and a farm was built on the site of the semi-circular wall of the walled garden. In the 1930s, the manor housed a cider mill.

Following the liberation of Caen, an emergency housing complex of wooden barracks, intended to shelter some 50 homeless families, was temporarily set up in the immediate vicinity of the manor, in the farm's orchard. In the 1970s, these emergency housing units were replaced by apartment buildings at the rear of the manor.