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The wooden house located on the 20 Grande-Rue in Léré, in the Cher department, is a 15th century civil building. This type of construction, characteristic of late medieval architecture, illustrates the techniques of wood frame and assembly used at that time for urban or bourgeois dwellings. Its listing in the inventory of Historic Monuments by decree of 22 July 1925 reflects its heritage value and the desire to preserve this vernacular heritage.

In the 15th century, the region of the Centre-Val de Loire, then integrated into the royal domain or under the influence of the great feudals, experienced an economic boom linked to river trade (Léré is close to the Loire) and agriculture. Wood-paned houses, such as the Grande-Rue, often housed local merchants, artisans or notables. Their wooden structure, combined with torchi filling, reflects both technical constraints and available resources, while providing flexibility for future extensions or modifications.

The exact address of the house, "route from Cosne to Cléré" or "20 Grande Rue", reveals its location on a historic axis linking two regional poles. The accuracy of its location, noted as "passable" (level 5/10), suggests that its exact location may have evolved or that old cartographic sources lack details. Today, this monument offers a material testimony of daily life in rural or semi-urban areas at the end of the Middle Ages, a period marked by the transition to the Renaissance and the centralization of royal power.

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