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The corner house of Monflanquin is part of the urban planning of this bastide founded between 1279 and 1296 by Jean de Grailly, Seneschal d'Agenais, on behalf of King Edward I of England. The city, almost circular, was surrounded by walls pierced by eleven towers and organized around a central castle. Its streets, drawn at right angles, converged towards squares like the Cornières, whose stone arcades are still well preserved today.

Place des Cornières houses two medieval houses built on the extrados of the arcades, now united in one building. The one on the left is distinguished by a ground floor decorated with a broken arch framed by two windows with trilobed arches, characteristic of 14th century Gothic civil architecture. These elements testify to the prosperity of Monflanquin, an English bastide that has become a commercial and artisanal hub in Aquitaine.

Classified as a Historic Monument since 1951 for its facade and roof, this house illustrates the preserved heritage of Monflanquin. The protection specifically concerns stone elements (cadastre FU 224p), stressing the importance of preserving these remains of medieval urbanism. The exact location, 49 Place des Arcades, confirms its anchoring in the historic heart of the bastide, near the old square Foch.

Monflanquin, with its radiant plan and blonde stone buildings, embodies the ideal of the bastides of the South West: new cities designed for trade and defense. The corner house, by its structure and architectural details, reflects this dual vocation, mixing bourgeois habitat and symbols of English seigneurial power in an area then disputed between the kingdoms of France and England.

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