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The English barracks, located in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, is a historical monument whose origins date back to the 13th or 14th century, as evidenced by architectural remains (sized stone, broken arcade, twin window). The building was thoroughly redesigned in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the addition of cross-sections, a portal, and sled windows, reflecting its adaptation to the military and residential needs of the time. His name came from his occupation by English troops between 1352 and 1354, during the Hundred Years War, before becoming a royal barracks and then a dwelling for the Dragons in 1685.

After the French Revolution, the building was transformed into a bourgeois house after being returned to the descendants of Marc de Saint-Just in 1792. Its architecture combines two stone levels surmounted by a third brick and wooden panels, with a facade pierced by two distinct portals: one in broken arch (XIII-XIVth century), the other in the middle of a moulded hanger (XVIIth century). The wooden galleries (mirands) and the door windows (late 15th-early 16th) illustrate the successive stylistic evolutions, while interior arrangements (routed to the 17th, staircase to the 18th) mark its subsequent civilian use.

The barracks were officially designated as "the Roy's barracks" after 1740, when the city took possession of them following the abandonment by a fugitive religionist. Classified as a Historic Monument in 1978, it now retains protected elements such as gates, sill windows and mirandes. A communal property, its history reflects the political and social upheavals of the region, from medieval conflicts to its integration into the local heritage.

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