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Origin and history

The rural complex of the River, located in Saint-Éloy-les-Tuilleries en Corrèze (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), is a farm in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is distinguished by its oval barn, unique in the region to have found its original thatch roof in 2018. This type of construction, typical of the Corrèze-Haute-Vienne-Dordogne junction, was widespread in the 19th century, with more than 2,000 copies within a 50 km radius. Today, only about 50 remain.

The site consists of a house (dated 1756 by an engraved lintel), a barn, a barn, a barn, hens, valves and a bread oven. The barn once housed a beating area, a stable and a fenil. Ranked a historic monument in 1996, the whole was acquired in 1999 by the community of communes of the Pays de Saint-Yrieix. In 2024, his home, in advanced danger, received funding of €110,000 via the Heritage Lotto for a restoration planned in 2025-2026.

Oval barns, about ten metres high, were traditionally covered with rye thatch. Their decline in the 20th century is explained by the abandonment of this technique in favour of sheet metal. The restoration of 2018 allowed us to rediscover the original aspect, stressing the ethnological interest of this limo vernacular heritage. The ensemble thus illustrates the local agricultural and architectural practices of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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